Posted on 01/05/2011 9:56:39 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
“Very sad to see what politicians have done to this great Republic all to keep their jobs.”
Big business had their hand in this, too; initially a source of cheap labor, they are now prized as consumers instead (remember the description of the newer cars and electronics gadgets while paying for groceries with gubmint aid?).
“They only have one car, the rest ride bikes.”
I guess there was some kind of crackdown here in NJ on unlicensed drivers/unregistered vehicles; many illegals that had been driving now seem to be on bikes. The new normal for the US (remember the pictures of thousands of Asians on bikes going to work? That will be us.)
“First one family will either rent/lease/or buy a house and move in. Within a week or two, another will move in. After awhile, more and more will move in.”
Many landlords here in NJ prefer them to vacancies as Americans continue leaving NJ (a trend that started under our previous governor). This is also the main reason NYC is a “sanctuary city”; if these roaches didn’t move in it would be a ghost town. At least with live bodies there the city will receive all sorts of federal funds to keep its employees & politicians living large...
Great post. Thomas Sowell makes sober reading indeed. VDH has warned so eloquently of what was happening. Several years of columns, speeches, essays detailing the loss of American culture, mores, values, and heritage.
Someone called talk radio the other morning to say she and her husband had left California a few years ago, but that her husband happened to be there on business on one particular day: No Mexicans day, whatever they called it. No Mexican labor anywhere in the state would show up for work. Her husband had said Los Angeles had turned into Mexico until that day when lo and behold the illegals stayed home. No clunkers on the road, no sullen Hispanics of any sort lining up for welfare, food stamps, work,etc.. It was like LA of old, but only for one day, alas.
Until the Progressive Era and the rise of hygiene agitation, big cities were population sinks, with more people dying than being born there, and only rapid immigration accounting for growth.
I was just reading, apropos of another thread completely, that Stephen A. Douglas, "the Little Giant", lived in small-town Illinois. He moved his family to Chicagos to further his political career in 1847, and within five years his first wife died a young woman (leaving him two kids). He remarried three years later, in 1855 or so, and then he was dead of typhoid himself six years after that -- still a man of relatively young middle years.
Metropolises are a good deal for the people who own and run them. They suck for others.
I heard that woman’s telephone call, too.
I think it was Glen Beck’s radio show when Glen was on vacation.
This is very true!
The majority of Mexicans are NOT assimulating. They lack our work ethic and bring their thrid world culture here. They are here for the HAND OUTS and want to drag U.S. down.
I beleive the liberal ELITE, want this for OTHERS but not for themselves. The liberal ELITE want to RULE over people. The liberal ELITE doesn’t want smart, INDIVIDUALS that can do for themselves. They want DUMB SERFS that will look UP to them to run the show.
the same principle happened during integration in the 60’s which left ghettos in our major cities.
I agree; I was watching something on the History Channel about our “crumbling infrastructure”, and couldn’t believe that a number of cities dump raw sewage into rivers when their older systems can’t handle the volume. As someone who lives around some very nasty cities, I don’t recall the smell of raw feces when I’m near the river, so I assume we’re not doing it around here. That was a real eye-opener for me!
I've had the "pleasure" of working on one of those houses. It was owned by a mall near me and they used it to "house" their workforce. They had several of these houses in the area around the mall. It was about 20 folks living in a 1950s style ranch built for a family of 4. The mall would pay these people minimum wage then they would get to live there for a nominal rent. Truly disgusting, mattresses all over the place, the kitchen with grease and dirty dishes everywhere, and of course roaches. Kind of the modern version of slavery.
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