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California gets taste of life without immigrant workers
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/1/06 | Lisa Leff - ap

Posted on 05/01/2006 4:17:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: altura; SortaBichy
You could actually stroll through the aisles at Wal-mart.

But you gotta look at the bigger picture...the usual WalMart crowd was staying home and producing more anchor babies.

141 posted on 05/01/2006 6:21:16 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: BunnySlippers

I'm uneducated...I'm a peasant...I may or may not be...But I can sleep at night knowing I didn't cheat some American out of a job...And then brag about it...


142 posted on 05/01/2006 6:22:03 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park...)
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To: Redcloak

Yes, let's try for a week without illegals.

Then for a month and then for a year.

I think we just might survive without them forever.


143 posted on 05/01/2006 6:22:13 PM PDT by Supernatural (I used to care but things have changed.)
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To: Fruitbat

Call the zoning board and ask how many people are allowed in a single family home. If possible give the square footage. That's what we're doing in Northern CA.

It was great here today - shopping and driving 101 North hasn't been this easy to navigate in a very long time!


144 posted on 05/01/2006 6:24:06 PM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: Iscool

Let us know what kind of shanty you live in? We already know you're a low life.


145 posted on 05/01/2006 6:24:13 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (We want our day: A day without hearing SPANISH ...)
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To: Supernatural

Yes... It will be a perilous undertaking, but I'm willing to face the danger!


146 posted on 05/01/2006 6:24:53 PM PDT by Redcloak (Messing up perfectly good threads since 1998.)
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To: BunnySlippers

I have heard that from so many people I can't believe anyone still think they are "saving" money by hiring cheap unskilled labor. You may pay more for licensed contractors, but they are well worth it. I would not feel safe allowing an unlicensed worker to be responsible for the electricity or plumbing or gas lines....it is a safety issue. You got exactly what you paid for.....cheap crappy work.


147 posted on 05/01/2006 6:25:21 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: NormsRevenge; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...


May-Day News Ping!

148 posted on 05/01/2006 6:26:19 PM PDT by HiJinx (Call Early ~ Call Often! ~ Kill Amnesty)
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To: Watershed

are you confessing to supporting illegals, or distinguishing between those here legally doing the right thing and those who aren't?

My anger on this issue is aimed at the people who spit in our faces with their mex flags, gringo, white get off our land, crapola.


149 posted on 05/01/2006 6:28:49 PM PDT by Explorer24
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To: Vince Ferrer

Those employers should be investigated. I have ot seen any businesses closed here in Santa Monica, but I have not walked the entire city. ;^)


150 posted on 05/01/2006 6:30:17 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: NormsRevenge

"For some enterprises, that meant a boon in business. With so most other restaurants closed, Wan Kee, a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District, did brisk lunchtime business."

From the grammar in the above sentence, I think old Wan himself must have written this part.


151 posted on 05/01/2006 6:32:07 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Thank you.

At least you are not a sanctimonious jerk like the one I am sparring with now.


152 posted on 05/01/2006 6:32:09 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (We want our day: A day without hearing SPANISH ...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"'Today, no - no working and no buying,' said Enrique Varguas, 28, who rescheduled a dozen or so landscaping appointments..."

My wife went to Walmart on Sunday. Normally it is almost deserted with all the local LDS population at church. It was wall to wall Mexicans stocking up so they could put on a show today.

153 posted on 05/01/2006 6:34:48 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Schatze
Unfortunately, in some towns, they go the opposite way. In the city we just moved from, the ordinance states that you can have 1 person for every 100 square feet, i.e., a 1600 sq.ft. house is OK for 16 people.

When the 2700 square foot house across the street from us sold, and turned into a rental, that was our cue to leave a neighborhood and a city that had been steadily deteriorating for the past ten years.

It broke our hearts, because it used to be a beautiful little city, but the crime, the congestion, the quality of life destroyed, left us with no other choice.

We're now in a tiny little town on the Oregon Coast. The weather this past winter was quite challenging, but it's quiet and peaceful here. We still get a lot more rain and a lot less warm sunshine than we did in California, but we're content. We were just getting too darned old to put up with all the craziness in California.

154 posted on 05/01/2006 6:36:04 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: BunnySlippers

Hey, we all make mistakes. I laughed my butt off at the guy who has been building all over our neighborhood....he has been the bain of my existence for over 5 years with continued construction all around us. He hired some illegals & a neighbor tipped off the unions. He was picketed & then had to hire the union to tear down the shoddy work & re-do it. Cost him 10 times more than it would have if he had hired the union guys to start with....couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. hahahaha


155 posted on 05/01/2006 6:37:17 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: BlessedByLiberty

I'm sure!

Thanks.


156 posted on 05/01/2006 6:41:29 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: Myrddin

"It was wall to wall Mexicans stocking up so they could put on a show today."

Can't people who come here with nothing but the shirts on their backs learn to stockpile stuff like a True American? LOL! I could live comfortably without a trip to Wal-Mart for 30 days, easily. My Mom could hold out for 60-90 days based on her stash. ;)

More than enough proof to me that illegals don't want to "assimilate into our culture." And, yes, I'm being a smart @ss. :)


157 posted on 05/01/2006 6:41:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Kellis91789

Why can't people do their own landscaping instead of hiring illegals? I do all of mine and I live on over 3/4 of an acre. Maybe if Americans went back to doing their own work outside and inside instead of hiring all these illegals, this County would be a lot better off. No illegal would have ever come close to taking care of my kids -- I was a stay-at-home Mom. Our home may not have been picture perfect because I did the work inside and out but my kids were sure a lot happier that I was home and our house had that lived in look.

Gardners and housekeepers are a waste of money IMHO for healthy individuals who could use the exercise! Wonder how many illegals are hired to do those jobs?


158 posted on 05/01/2006 6:49:55 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Elect Bob Sullivan OK Governor -- Throw out Dem Gov DoLittle Henry in 2006!)
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To: BunnySlippers
You've posted to me numerous times...

What a boor you are.

Oh, let me retract that. You're a jerk!....

oh, ... you're from Michigan. You have no concept of market forces.

Furthernore, you are ignorant.

A boor DOES NOT mean you're boring. It means you're a boor:

1. A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
2. A peasant.

See 133. You're still uneducated.

Let us know what kind of shanty you live in? We already know you're a low life.

It's pretty clear you and I would be on opposite sides of the street during this protest...I'd be on the American side...

159 posted on 05/01/2006 6:51:39 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park...)
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To: Iscool

You're still an ignorant bufoon!


160 posted on 05/01/2006 6:52:35 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (We want our day: A day without hearing SPANISH ...)
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