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What if 'they' stop coming
North County Times ^
| 20 Apr 04
| Raoul Lowery Contreras
Posted on 04/20/2004 6:38:58 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
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Wouldn't that be awful. It would mark first time in twenty years that a white person has mowed a lawn in Beverly Hills.
To: .cnI redruM
The work must be done. Will we have to bring in Chinese, like we did to build the railroad? Or will a new president next year construct a viable guest-worker program, a program that will legalize people willing to come north for better jobs and higher wages? Guess we'll have to do something crazy, like let the marketplace rule.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:41:34 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: .cnI redruM
Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina? Ummm...Americans getting marginally higher pay than they are now? Ooooh, can't have that, now, can we?
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:42:32 AM PDT
by
neutrino
(Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.)
To: Wolfie
Yeah, that would be a shocker. It amazes me that a country that spent the last year bellyaching about it's high unemployment could possibly have any jobs left for Mexicans to come in and take.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:45:55 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: neutrino
It amazes me that a country that spent the last year bellyaching about it's high unemployment could possibly have any jobs left for Mexicans to come in and take.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:46:30 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: neutrino
I predict a host of labor saving devices invented and patented by Americans.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:47:36 AM PDT
by
fishtank
To: Wolfie
Let's see how about kicking lazy people off of the Welfare gravy train...
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:54:16 AM PDT
by
usnret99
(I served! Have You?)
To: neutrino
There are two poultry processing plants here in my town-a Tyson's and a Honeysuckle White. In the 1980s, kids who didn't want to go to college went there after graduation, and got reasonably decent pay and benefits. Starting in the early 1990s, local black and white workers were forced out of the plants by a variety of means, including physical assaults commited by the 'imported' labor (possibly at the behest of the managers, who at the very least turned a blind eye). Today the workforce there is nearly all "Hispanic", which in this case means illegal . The displaced workers have moved on or are trying to survive on Walmart/fast food/service jobs.
Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina?
That kind of nonsense makes me homicidal. The workers weren't "too proud or lazy" to do those jobs, they were thrown out like garbage. Any person who says "they only take the jobs Americans don't want" is a liar, and s/he KNOWS it's a lie. When translated , it really means,"anyone who does that kind of work is an illiterate trailer trash redneck, I hate people like that and it makes me happy to see them suffer."
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:56:54 AM PDT
by
kaylar
To: usnret99
I was thinking more along the lines of "If you're not paying enough for legal workers, you need to raise your wages".
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:58:20 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: kaylar
Boy, have you got these "Jobs Americans won't do" guys' numbers! Your post says it all.
To: gubamyster; *immigrant_list
Ping.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:06:11 AM PDT
by
Marine Inspector
(Either we will defeat terrorism, or terrorism will defeat us.)
To: .cnI redruM
Wouldn't that be awful. It would mark first time in twenty years that a white person has mowed a lawn in Beverly Hills. There are many parts of the country where there are few, if any, illegals and lawns somehow still manage to get cut.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:06:21 AM PDT
by
Modernman
(Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
To: .cnI redruM
Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina? This statement would likely be found in some of the pro-slavery literature of the late 1850s.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:09:18 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: .cnI redruM
"The work must be done. Will we have to bring in Chinese, like we did to build the railroad? Or will a new president next year construct a viable guest-worker program, a program that will legalize people willing to come north for better jobs and higher wages?"
Maybe Americans can do them.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:11:08 AM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Modernman
Rich, white liberals don't live in THAT America.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:13:29 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: Wolfie
Dittoes--what has also steamed me about the employers of illegals is the air of charity they put on when they make slaves of them, burden the social services--"Oh, they're so eager to work."
Their eagerness makes the lawbreaking employers feel all warm and runny inside--"I'm so generous, so good to the poor downtrodden wetback..."
I really, honestly hear this sort of thing from people getting their lawns mowed for a disgracefully low sum of money--just because they're willing to break the law.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:14:18 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(for a post-Neo conservatism)
To: Mamzelle
Imagine if it worked the other way. You walk into a Wal-Mart and decide the toasters are too expensive. So you steal it. Hiring illegals because you can't attract legal workers with what you're willing to pay is the same thing.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:16:13 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: CzarNicky
The question is whether Americans are still willing to get dirt on their hands.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:19:20 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: .cnI redruM
The question is whether Americans are still willing to get dirt on their hands.Starvation is a motivator....
To: Wolfie
Europe is always held up to us as some standard of excellence--well, in Europe you can still make a living (albeit subsidized) by working with your hands. Frankly, if we have to submit to being invaded and destabilized to keep the corporate bigshots happy, make me anti-corporate. How capitalistic is it, anyway, to be taxed to death to pay for workers' social services, so that the corporations can get by with not paying a certain wage?
Consider that a lot of this invasion is also financed by our recent tax cuts for the low-earning. They get a raise straight from Uncle Sam, which also benefits the lawbreaking employers. They pay very few taxes--only Social Security taxes are on a par with the rest of us. If a head of lettuce has to cost twice as much--that's just fine by me.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:25:35 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(for a post-Neo conservatism)
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