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Illegal aliens didn't build U.S.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | March 29, 2006 | Jack Markowitz

Posted on 04/01/2006 6:57:01 AM PST by Supernatural

It's a new chapter in the Promised Land. We are becoming The Land That Better Keep Its Promises - or Else. Even promises that never were made.

A half-million illegal aliens and friends and sympathizers have taken to the streets of late, demanding unhampered residency and employment. Their anger is being whipped up against an America that would fence its borders against more coming over, and require proper payroll-keeping and taxpaying from employers who hire them outside the law.

Why? In part because a new myth is gaining currency. It is that illegal immigrants, mostly of Mexican or other Hispanic origin, "built this country." Without them the economy would collapse.

"We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!" Other thousands marched to this beat of indispensability in Phoenix, Denver and Milwaukee.

That people who entered the United States by stealth feel entitled to tie up U.S. downtowns with their grievances is nervy in the first place. But their slant on U.S. history is off the wall. No better clue might be needed that kids should be taught in English, fast!

It was religious freedom-seekers from England who began building this country, followed by natives of every part of Europe, Asia and Africa. And their descendants keep right on building it as e pluribus unum Americans -- "out of the many, one." Don't expect them to honor some dubious economic necessity to let everybody in.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; indenturedservitude; outsourcethesenate; rinos; scamnesty; soros; wageslavery
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To: Bigg Red

MARK


121 posted on 04/01/2006 8:26:45 AM PST by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Gritty

IMHO, this invasion of the U.S. by illegal aliens is going to lead to a civil war at worst, riots and strife at best.


122 posted on 04/01/2006 8:28:44 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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To: Dane

So, please tell us EVIL conservatives why we are wrong on this instead the barbed comments you seem to offer to anyone who disagrees with you. Are you illegal?


123 posted on 04/01/2006 8:29:43 AM PST by txlurker
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To: Dane
What does your post about Tancredo have to do with the price of tomatoes in Schenectedy? Let's get back on topic.

I'm keen to see your published data on the physics of the free energy 30 million person illegal alien vegetable picking machine. When can we expect to see the paper?

124 posted on 04/01/2006 8:30:30 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: freeangel

Or a "shim" or an "it".


126 posted on 04/01/2006 8:31:48 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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To: Supernatural

"Who would sweep, bus tables, take all "the jobs Americans won't?

Obviously, Americans and legal immigrants would. Because the jobs would rise to market levels of compensation and appropriate taxation or go unfilled"

The UNFILLED is the scary word above. I doubt very much that U.S. citizens would take many of the jobs now held by illegals, regardless of pay rates. There is more involved than pay scales. How many U.S. citizens would move to farm areas and live 20 deep in the huts provided by the employers. How many U.S. citizens would flock to jobs requiring weeding and mowing in 120 degree heat such as found in many desert gated communities? The fact is that those who are willing to work under extreme conditions and exploitation usually are not U.S. citizens.


127 posted on 04/01/2006 8:32:15 AM PST by Joan Kerrey (what support is Sinclair giving to a candidate)
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To: JCEccles
What does your post about Tancredo have to do with the price of tomatoes in Schenectedy? Let's get back on topic

Uh tancredo is a House legislator pushing new legislation.

His resume of never working in wealth creating enterprises(and mostly working in tax payer govt. paid enterprises) is fair game.

128 posted on 04/01/2006 8:32:45 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Bawana Jim

Worse than France.


129 posted on 04/01/2006 8:32:58 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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To: investigateworld

If you are not planning on making any sense, please don't ping me anymore. Explain yourself or remain silent.


130 posted on 04/01/2006 8:39:39 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Joan Kerrey

People in gated communities can afford to pay enough money to have their property taken care of anyway they want it take care of.

Machines are now replacing humans in the picking of fruit and vegetables.

Machines now wash most dishes and silverware.

And when the fruit picking jobs are gone, what jobs do the illegals take then? Your job? My job? Because the illegals would do the work we do for 1/3 or less of what we are being paid.

Ready to turn your job over to an illegal alien, with the blessing of your governmnet? And the blessing of others like you, who won't care when your job goes "south", but will cry when their own job goes south.


131 posted on 04/01/2006 8:40:23 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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To: Joan Kerrey
The fact is that those who are willing to work under extreme conditions and exploitation usually are not U.S. citizens.

Americans are willing to work in extreme conditions *if* they are properly compensated. Fire-houses, coal-mines, and oil-rigs for example.

Americans don;t like being exploited, however. Third-world peasant laborers, on the other hand, don't mind.

132 posted on 04/01/2006 8:40:26 AM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Dane; Doohickey

Bucking hay bales one summer in Nebraska was some of the hardest work I've ever done. Occasionally you'd turn a bale over with your hook--and there's a little prairie rattler still alive, caught by the baling twine! My mother and her brothers and sister chopped cotton and picked it by hand `til their fingers bled, and killed rattlers with hoes.
This argument: `Mexicans are only doing the work we won't do' is pure B.S.
Dane, your constant references to trial attorneys and teachers' unions, and now Tancredo--what do they have to do with the issue?
The use of `red herrings', or `straw-men', shows that the person using them can't address the issue: a constant influx of illegal aliens and our governments refusal to enforce our immigration laws.
Now I suppose you'll call me a racist. That's another sign of a weak or non-existent argument: name-calling'.
You support violation of our laws and that makes you a friend of alien lawbreakers in our country who raise their own flag and refuse to respect our flag and laws.
Now I'm going to call you a name. It is the worst name that one educated person can call another--giving you the benefit of the doubt: you are unreasonable; that is, you cannot be reasoned with.


134 posted on 04/01/2006 8:42:57 AM PST by tumblindice ("Not `chicano' or `latino'--call us Mexicans." . . . . OK, Mexicans--go back to Mexico.)
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To: Dane

LOL! You are just laughable. I'm not in the farming and ranching business now because after I got out of the military after 13 years, I decided to use that experience to start a career in private industry. Don't worry, the Beaver Creek Ranch is doing just fine, without the help of illegal aliens (though there are a few American cowboys of Hispanic decent).

So. Dane. Tell me about your experience in agri-business. Which branch of the military did you serve in, and for how long?


135 posted on 04/01/2006 8:44:51 AM PST by Doohickey (Democrats are nothing without a constituency of victims.)
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To: Bawana Jim

The attack on this country is two-pronged.

First, industry has been shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, putting millions of Americans out of work, destroying the tax base and raising the taxes on those Americans still gainfully employed.

Second, illegal aliens have been deliberately allowed to enter the country to take the rest of the working class American jobs to further undermine the working class.

And what do you think the results will be to millions of Americans with no meaningful employment who are unable to pay their mortgages, tax bills and car payments will be?

It can only lead to national disaster and the end of our nation as we knew it.


136 posted on 04/01/2006 8:45:22 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Our elected officials have caused these problems. They've gotten so caught up in "political correctness", and seeking votes wherever they can get them, that they have done irreparable harm to the law abiding citizens of this nation by catering to illegal aliens. This speaks of the problems caused by the political correct politicians: If you are ready for the adventure of a lifetime, TRY THIS:

Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc. Procreate abundantly.

Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behavior with, "It is a cultural USA thing. You would not understand, pal."

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a local Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal presence in Mexico.

Drive around with no liability insurance and ignore local traffic laws.

Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck! You'll be demanding for the rest of time or soon dead.

Because it will never happen. It will not happen in Mexico or any other country in the world except right here in the United States, Land of the naive and stupid, idiotic politically correct politicians.

137 posted on 04/01/2006 8:45:48 AM PST by PeskyOne
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To: Supernatural
Here's a great website to get news info on all of this:

Click here.

138 posted on 04/01/2006 8:46:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Joan Kerrey
How many U.S. citizens would flock to jobs requiring weeding and mowing in 120 degree heat such as found in many desert gated communities?

High school and college students would, like my friends and I did every friggin summer 20 years ago.

Now that labor pool is being forced aside in favor of illegals who will work for less and are paid in cash. Employers favor this arrangement because not only do they save $ in wages, they don't have to pay unemployment insurance; they don't have to pay bookeepers to do payroll taxes and they don't have to pay payroll taxes.

139 posted on 04/01/2006 8:46:43 AM PST by Abundy
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Thanks for the link. I gave that site a quick glance and there is a wealth of info there.

I'll give it a longer look later.


140 posted on 04/01/2006 8:49:37 AM PST by Supernatural (A 1,000 lies can be told, but the truth is still the truth.)
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