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Re: Let's get America working again

7/18/2003 3:09 AM
nic	Re: Let's get America working again I am sorry did you wanna work 12+ hour days for agriculture wages? We'd be paying $5/orange without these hard working non-US-citizens. How about that bed that is made up for you at that hotel, we ? Or the plate that was washed before and after you ate from it? These are hard tedious duties to preform. I'd rather not have them as the only job offerings. Our ecconomy sucks, it was fine a couple years ago and we even had non-citizens working here. It is bound to get worse as laws dictating how much we have to be paid for our hours are loosened. Fewer folks will be needed cause they can already overwork the guy with the job. It is a shortcut to thinking to blame legal/illeagal immagrants. I'd say the folks we should be blaming are the types that open a POBox in Bermuda, thus virtually relocating corporate HQ to a tax haven, meanwhile enjoying the saftey paid for by the blood, sweat, and lives of our young service people. Not to mention the average US citizens' tax dollar being stretched to support the infrastructure that these businesses utilize daily. Even worse is the government(s) that supports and are propped up by them. Good for you if your family did not come here on a boat. Mine did over 100 years ago, as did most. I have no rich people in my family, my second generation immigrant great-grandparents enjoy paying $50/ 2 ounces of glaucoma eye drops every week on a fixed income that they worked their German behinds off for at a steel plant in Cumberland, Maryland. The only thing my Great-Grandfather has as a retirement piece from them is the I-Beam he snagged from the plant when it was being demolished. That beam supports his modest home he built with his bare hands. Point being made? It has been, it is, and will continue to be that America is really built by those with little or no voice, who are willing to work for barely enough to support their families. All they hope for is that their children have it better.

7/18/2003 3:09 AM

nic

Re: Let's get America working again

I am sorry did you wanna work 12+ hour days for agriculture wages? We'd be paying $5/orange without these hard working non-US-citizens. How about that bed that is made up for you at that hotel, we ? Or the plate that was washed before and after you ate from it? These are hard tedious duties to preform. I'd rather not have them as the only job offerings.

Our ecconomy sucks, it was fine a couple years ago and we even had non-citizens working here. It is bound to get worse as laws dictating how much we have to be paid for our hours are loosened. Fewer folks will be needed cause they can already overwork the guy with the job.

It is a shortcut to thinking to blame legal/illeagal immagrants. I'd say the folks we should be blaming are the types that open a POBox in Bermuda, thus virtually relocating corporate HQ to a tax haven, meanwhile enjoying the saftey paid for by the blood, sweat, and lives of our young service people. Not to mention the average US citizens' tax dollar being stretched to support the infrastructure that these businesses utilize daily. Even worse is the government(s) that supports and are propped up by them.

Good for you if your family did not come here on a boat. Mine did over 100 years ago, as did most. I have no rich people in my family, my second generation immigrant great-grandparents enjoy paying $50/ 2 ounces of glaucoma eye drops every week on a fixed income that they worked their German behinds off for at a steel plant in Cumberland, Maryland. The only thing my Great-Grandfather has as a retirement piece from them is the I-Beam he snagged from the plant when it was being demolished. That beam supports his modest home he built with his bare hands.

Point being made? It has been, it is, and will continue to be that America is really built by those with little or no voice, who are willing to work for barely enough to support their families. All they hope for is that their children have it better.

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Brad1 Nic, you're right about the corpora... -- 7/18/2003 11:07 AM
anon Nice try nic. Are you a stinking l... -- 7/18/2003 3:47 PM