Posted on 05/24/2004 4:52:39 PM PDT by chance33_98
Wait--he wants me to vanish? What the heck? My grandparents were born in this country. Whoop dee ding dong that their parents were from Mexico. They ran away from that cesspool long ago, and good riddance.
Oh, sorry. He meant ILLEGAL Latinos, mostly illegal Mexicans. Well then damn, the education problems would probably be solved, workers comp would go down, my car and healthcare insurance rates would plummet. Unemployed poor white, black and hispanic people would have a chance at a job.
Sounds like a good idea. Where do I sign up to make this reality?
I forgot to add the crime rate would go down and the Latino Gangbangers would disappear.
bttt
Roll forward to 2000. My son WANTED to work at Burger King or McDonald's or just about any fast food restaurant to earn money for the same reasons I earned money at his age. No way. The Mexicans CONTROLLED the kitchen and hiring decisions. The only way he broke through their stranglehold on the restaurant jobs was to prove he could speak Spanish as good as any latino on the staff.
My son gets the last laugh. He is now a licensed real estate agent in San Diego. He works for a naturalized citizen from Mexico City. He conducts his real estate transactions in Spanish from beginning to end. He graduated with a 4.33 GPA and enough AP credits to be a college sophomore on his high school graduation day. San Diego State Business School has admitted him to an international business degree program with specialization in Mexico. He already runs the real estate office except for the required signatures from his boss with the broker's license. He will be seeking his own broker's license in 18 months and will have a solid background in how to run a real estate business.
My son is also a LCPL in the USMC Reserves. He just earned the "Marine of the Quarter" award. That puts him in the running for promotion to CPL this quarter. He might yet get another tour in Iraq. Landing in Kuwait City on his 20th birthday was his "sun and sand" vacation gift from the USMC.
The Mexicans with the stranglehold on the fast food employment are still steadfastly working in the kitchen. They have neither the skills nor the ambition to do any better than that.
What if all the whites vanished?
Amazing omission, don't you think?
Great job on raising a great son.
...Let me see if I understand this....the writer thinks that suddenly finding California has a greater percentage of self starters that want to be able to function in the language,culture and business environment of the country in which they live;to lower the tax/admin burden by not immediately seeking a handout/preference as a FIRST resort,who think of themselves as AMERICANS,not Balkanized,ethno-tribalists,and are actually GREATFUL to be here versus sullen,hostile and resentful....the writer thinks that this is a BAD THING??Hell,even the "dishwashing-scutwork"jobs would eventually pay more due to the fact that subsidized illegals would not be competing with legitimate immigrants(and I include LEGAL Mexicans on the road to becomming Americans!)...if no one does the job for one low wage,eventually you either cast more bread opn the waters or nobody shows up for the job opening.
This writer REALLY overestimates both the value of the parasite/sucklig class AND the level of tolerance he thinks he can tap into forever.In fact,I'd say that the well is running dry.....brushfire season comming soon.
"An ad that is expected to hit Spanish language press will say "Un Día Sin Mexicanos 'La Movie': Los Gringos van a llorar" or "A Day Without a Mexican 'The Movie': Gringos will cry."
This "gringo" wonders how a movie that purports to fight racism can use a racist term "gringo" to decribe European Americans is as offensive as "wetback" is when used to label Mexican-Americans?
...and our overpriced and overpopulated prison system would be much easier to contend with.
Uh, can I ask a question? Does anyone else think that mariachi music and polkas sound an awful lot alike?
The left has married the words "illegal alien" with Hispanic and Latino. I refuse to buy it.
Well, there goes your technical base.
I'm not "all good" with street vendors and outdoor plumbing.
Lord help us when it comes to running power plants.
Exactly. People like Streistand, Redford would have to pay American workers a decent wage(which they are always carping others to do) or (GASP) forced to clean their own filthy, disase-tainted toilets.
I want equal time for: What if Every Norwegian Vanished from Minnesota?
All latinos? This film can't seriously think they are proving their point by also removing American latinos from the equation. That's just dopey.
When German immigrants settled in Texas the Mexicans took a liking to the oom pah pah and adopted it.
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