Posted on 04/06/2005 2:21:30 PM PDT by Spiff
Los Angeles lost one of the best Talk Show Hosts, Joe Crummey to KFYI in Arizona.
BTTT!!!!!!!
I guess you saw the latest NYT article about how criminal migrants pay "10% of the surplus" of the SSN system. I always fall for stories like that - feeling shame or dumb like they want me to.
But this is just more of the "cheap lettuce" argument. As if cheap lettuce and some enhancement to the SSN system are worth the cost. The cost is having hospitals and schools gorged with criminal migrants from now on.
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Sounds like the young journo is having quite an experience.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.
"...criminal migrants pay 10% of the surplus in Social Security..."
To the best of my knowledge, they don't pay anything into SS at all.
I'm willing to be proven wrong, with names and phone numbers.
Bump
I'm not so sure I buy into the "cheap labor" excuse for illegals any more. At least around here (primarily grain crops - rice, soybeans, wheat), farmers are hiring "hispanic" workers because they are more reliable than American workers. These hispanics are getting paid the same as Americans in the same job, and in many cases more because of reliability.
If this is true, that pay is no longer a reason for hiring the hispanics (using that term because they are a combination from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras), then it says something pretty ugly about American workers. And I do realize that the average pay for a farm worker/hand around here is pretty poor - but where would money for higher pay come from? Grain farmers really have no control over their crop prices.
The positive - as far as I can tell, the vast majority of immigrant workers around here are legal (or at least have very realistic papers). That's a lot more than I can say for the majority of Tyson chicken plants - but even there, the illegals are paid the same as the American workers - and Tyson workers actually make fair money. Not enough to get rich, but it's better than farm labor.
Just want to read later no time now..
I met a great Minuteman Project volunteer names Ruben from Los Angeles. He is hispanic. He said that something that really struck him since coming to Cochise County was that the fast food employees, cleaning people at the hotels, Wal-mart employees, busboys, etc. that he's seen do not appear to be illegals despite all of the illegals that pour through Cochise County every day. Aside from the obvious that our employers are obeying the law, his point was this. In Los Angeles all of those same positions are held by illegals, but not here. It shows that these are jobs that Americans WILL work - they're doing it in Cochise County because employers are obeying the law and keeping those jobs available for U.S. citizens. In L.A., the situation is reversed. The employers don't care and are more than willing to hire illegals - therefore the illegals are being hired at the exclusion of U.S. citizens. If anyone wonders why Arizona is seeing a massive influx of refugees from California, this is a significant cause.
>>....he looked at me and said, in a slight southern drawl... "Are you ok with guns, son? I said, "Yeah, they don't bother me" He reached around his side, into a duffel bag, and pulled out a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum.....very comfortably he said, "Here you go boy, you'll need this" and handed me the gun..."Just be careful, there's no safety and when you put it in your pants just be careful not to blow anything off you may need in the future (LOL)" This was a very surreal moment for me...I took the gun from his hand and held it for a moment..the only thing I could think of is - has it really come to this? As I got up to take my new piece of equipment to the room, he said, "Wait, you'll need these" And proceeded to pour a handful of hollow point bullets in my hand.<<<
LOL.. i love this guy! Patriotic Americans are a special breed.
While their kids eat free from age 4 to 18....I see how they school districts are extending the free meals to weekends and vacations now!
"Smugglers tell the Mexican press that crossing in the area where the Minutemen are patroling is now impossible..."
"About 66,000 illegal immigrants were caught last month in one area where the Minutemen were offering back-up patrol."
(source)
--Boot Hill
http://kfi640.com/MinuteMan.html
here is an archive of the KFI reports...
Bump!!
Mark cracked a joke about buying a gun, then didn't quite know what to do when he got one.
I find that disturbing, but not really bad...
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"Smugglers tell the Mexican press that crossing in the area where the Minutemen are patroling is now impossible..."
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