Posted on 05/01/2006 1:20:55 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Which Americans Won’t Work?
J. D. Pendry
The yearly per capita income in Wyoming County, West Virginia, the place of my birth and much of my youth, is $19,110.00. In neighboring McDowell County, it’s $16,483.00. The state average per capita is $23,794.00. It costs more money to attend school for one year at the University of California, Santa Cruz than the per capita income of my state. It’s also interesting that West Virginia has the highest rate per capita of military veterans in the country. Seems people who work hard for what they have are willing to serve and defend our country while the spoiled brat classes who have never worked for anything chase military recruiters away.
The joke’s on us, however. Taxes paid by people making 19 thousand a year, some of them serving in our Armed Forces (psst, being a Soldier is one of those jobs most Americans don’t want to do), find their way to the University of California, Santa Cruz in the form of federal dollars. Since I’ve clawed my way up from dirt poor to middle-class, I’m willing to fight to keep what I’ve earned and to prevent my small piece of West Virginia hillside from becoming part of the Islamic caliphate. If everything is given to you, you’ve never had to earn anything and you are left to want for nothing, you probably take it for granted that what you have will always be there and that the job of protecting it falls to others of lesser status than you. Lord help me for agreeing, but when John Edwards said there are two Americas out there, he may have been on to something.
Wyoming County is coal mining country. There’s currently a shortage of skilled miners in the state. Federal mining safety regulations require extensive training for this physically demanding and inherently dangerous job. Coal supplies more than half of our country’s electrical power and has the potential to lower prices at the pump through coal liquefaction if some wide-butted millionaire Congress people I know would actually work for our state – and America. Yet most Americans won’t work in the mines. Wait. What did I just say? It’s only a matter of time until Senator McCain sends the illegal immigrants; there I go again, undocumented guest workers here to do the job most Americans won’t do. He may need to do that to keep your lights on because I hear the miners are packing up to head to Yuma, Arizona for the five-month lettuce-picking season. McCain promises these lazy Americans fifty bucks an hour to do that job. For five month’s work, that’s better than forty grand a head. Bring the buses John, when you get to Wild Wonderful, head south on state route 10. We’ll be waiting for you at the McDowell-Wyoming county line.
There is another reason the good Senator from Arizona is worried about lettuce pickers:
“YUMA, Ariz. -- Shortly before Thanksgiving last year, Tom Nassif did something few law- abiding citizens would ever think to do: He called the U.S. Border Patrol here and suggested agents stop manning a highway checkpoint intended to keep illegal immigrants out of the country.
A former U.S. ambassador and currently the president of a powerful farming association, Mr. Nassif told officials that the agency couldn't have picked a worse time to beef up enforcement. Didn't they know it was lettuce season?” – Miriam Jordan, Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2005, As Border Tightens, Growers See Threat to Winter Salad Bowl
Senator McCain again proves to us that pandering is the first priority of politicians. I have to tell you though he’s in the minor leagues compared to Pander-in-Chief Hillary.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants. We might have to move towards an ID system even for citizens.
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants, I mean, come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau Counties, stand in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx (and) you're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work. You know, this is not a problem that the people coming into the country are solely responsible for. They wouldn't be coming if we didn't put them to work." – Hillary Clinton to WABC Radio's John Gambling.
That’s what Miss Hillary said before she made her faces of the people who clean our toilets speech at an immigration protest. She thanked the mob for doing the jobs Americans won’t do - watching her kids, cleaning her house, doing her laundry, cleaning the hotels and washing the dishes. Incredible. She told the gathered crowd that she wants to keep them as the permanent under-class, which is the same status they held in Mexico and elsewhere. The truth is socialists like Hill need a permanent and dependent under-class to keep them in power. I wonder. What would the reaction have been if she made the same speech to a group of Black Americans? I envy people who work hard, but I pity people who cheer at the prospect of forever doing Hillary’s laundry. Now that’s pitiful.
You may not surmise this from my reading my words, but I sympathize with people who come here and their only motivation is to provide for their families. Those of us who’ve raised families and survived by doing the jobs Hillary, John and others claim Americans won’t do are their kindred in spirit. Unfortunately, well-meaning, often poorly educated people have again been duped by politics and pro-communist organizations with agendas and affiliations that should alert immigrants that they don’t give a rat’s ass about them except as their potential usefulness in pushing a political agenda or harming the United States. Waving an American flag is meaningless if a communist places it in your hands and the colors aren’t in your heart. Organizations like A.N.S.W.E.R. and spineless, pandering politicians are doing immigrants more harm than good. I’m afraid my feelings on this matter are morphing from sympathy toward anger. At some point, if they haven’t already, Americans will stop seeing poor immigrants looking for work and start seeing tools used by people who want to harm our country.
I once was a registered Democrat, now I’m a registered Republican. I’ve never voted a straight party ticket. I cast my votes for America. Voting, by the way, is another of those jobs many Americans won’t do. The politician that wants my vote will show leadership by standing on principles and standing up for America. They’ll get my vote by first securing our borders. By registering and accounting for all illegal immigrants in our country and doing it within 90 days – before Election Day. By immediately deporting, without hearings, illegal immigrants found here that have serious criminal records. By deporting those that cannot show gainful employment. By providing a program that allows hard working, honest people who can clear a criminal background check to come here on work permits that require them to return to their country once each year - permits for which they or their employers must pay processing and annual renewal fees. If instead, the politicians give us amnesty, then I’m for flushing the whole kit and caboodle of them on Election Day. Let’s clean house of the people who wont’ work for America.
I'd much rather pick lettuce for McCain at $50/hr than be a coal miner.
1. The ones in prison. 2. The ones on welfare. 3. The ones who have been aborted.
Simple answers: 1. Bring back the chain gangs. 2. End Welfare. 3. End abortion.
Problem solved.
I won't vote for McCain for $50 an hour.
I won't either. but if he pays me from his personal fortune, I'll pick lettuce for him for $50/hour. or volunteer my kid to do it.
A day without an immigrant... is a blessing to Americans.
But hey, lets get some dome illegal immigrants who can't speak the language to do the dirty work for us and then claim we are being patriotic to our economy.
So the price of a head of lettuce is what's driving decisions about illegal immigration? Friggin' lettuce?
OK then going forward, let it be known that I am perfectly willing to pay $8 for a head of lettuce.
Here is what the "Coalitions for Justice" are delivering to congressional offices today. They're not demanding much, are they? They went around and got the signatures on these last last week:
"I write to urge you to back a realistic and productive comprehensive immigration reform package that does not include any hidden twps (sic) that would sabotage legalization programs, and to reject an enforcement only approach. The provisions of Sensenbrenner HR 4437 that passed the House of Representatives in December 2005 are bad polky (sic) and a dead end for our communities and our economy. Please support immigration reform that will include the following provisions:
I. A path to citizenship or earned legaliza1ion that is straightforward for those of the 12 million undocumented currently living in the US. who desire it.
2. A temporary program for those who desire to maintain their permanent roots in their coUntries of origin that includes worker protections for both domestic and immigrant workers and provide visa portability
3. An effective and speedy plan to reunite families.
4. Provisions for travel to and from countries of origin for immigrants here on worlr (sic) visas.
5. Greater provisions for friture (sic) flows of immigrants coming to the US. That includes a path to dtizenship
6. No more expensive. dead, and ineffective walls on the borders.
7. Promotion of full civic participation in immigrant communities."
Had a weird dream last night that everyone was complaining about th price of lettuce. But, the other veggies are priced as normal.
I'll just grow my own(for medicinal,personal use only of course)
Only the ignorant think that illegals are making slave labor wages. I've lived many places that relied significantly on illegal labor pools in the US, and in every single case I can think of they were being paid more than minimum wage. In some more remote areas, they are the only labor available and command a comfortable wage.
I fully expected to see the following with that:
Have brand new houses built for them
Have brand new cars provided for them
Give free $5000 debit cards to them for their clothes and whatnots
It's rediculous.
I had a family member brutally murdered by a pack of illegals back in 1979. Lets just say my family is more than ready for that fence and for something of SUBSTANCE to be done about the problem.
A study was done that even @$10/hr. it would only raise it half a dollar.
Btw- remember that 3 stooges episode in towelheadland?
One of the sheetheads was named "halfadollar", who's got the other names, stooge fans?
Just remember,gas companies are evil ,but Cargill and Tyson are patriotic for hiring illegals.
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I think I feel a sniffle coming on - you better send me some.
Try Stormfront, newb. They're more your type.
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