A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...

[SamLBInj]

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<font color="blue">And what the heck is THIS all about???? </font>



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Steve

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Looks like a sign that Hitler probably held up in Eroupe back in the late 30's.

[SamLBInj]

I have a question for you all, If you ask somebody from the USA what nationality they are what answer do you think you will get? I will bet you will get every other county than the one that they actually are which is American from the United States of America... amazing how many Pollocks and Italians seem to be living in America. Even we are not sure what we are.

[427TJ]

Here I go typing again...

(Please excuse the CAPITAL LETTERS. I'm not YELLING, I use them for EMPHASIS.)

First off, this is one HUGE DISTRACTION in an election year. The isn't EVER going to be any mass-deportation of Hispanic illegals or any other illegals no matter what congressmen or senators say in front of the TV cameras.

American business is HOOKED ON IMMIGRANT LABOR as if it were crack cocaine. That's why the president is trying to get an "amnesty" bill through congress. "Amnesty" means NOTHING CHANGES and any and all illegals STAY RIGHT HERE.

The main temptation for hiring illegals is that they have no recourse where on-the-job injury is concerned. If they get hurt then they just suck it up and either keep working or they walk away and are replaced by the next illegal immigrant laborer. No Workmen's Comp, no welfare--unless they're scamming those systems but that's not easy despite conventional wisdom.

Another main temptation is the fact that they come CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP and dare not form or join UNIONS. (Yes, the UFW came about in the '60s but since then: nada.) I know: "Unions cause all the problems." Maybe in some cases, but illegals are PERFECT where American corporations are concerned. So is China. See: outsourcing. Illegal labor and China serve to keep unionized and non-union labor scared for their jobs. Gonna' strike? Then we'll let those illegals (who've been given "amnesty") come do your job. Well, maybe it's not that easy but it sure works as a good scare tactic. 'Keeps those uppity "OVERPAID" American laborers afraid of being replaced by illegals.

OOPS, I mean "GUEST WORKERS."

If GM or Ford could put non-union immigrant labor on the assembly lines and dump the pension and benefit programs they'd do it IN A SECOND. AND CARS WOULD NOT COST ONE PENNY LESS.

"But Amercians won't do these jobs." Oh yes they will! They just won't do it for jack-squat like desperate illegals will. Each one of us values our own paycheck and knows we deserve every dollar we earn. American business just doesn't want to pay Americans if they can avoid it, therefore, ILLEGALS WILL REMAIN A MAJOR FACTOR IN AMERICAN LABOR.

All this puffed-up hyper-furor (on TV) over illegal immigration is going to do is distract all of us away from whatever is going badly for the politicos in Washington. It takes our minds off of Iraq, the federal deficit, the economy (for anyone who isn't rich), education, health care---pick something. This illegal immigration hype is just a convenient distraction in an election year.

Why has this suddenly come up now? No one seemed to care for the past 10, 25, 50, 75, 100 years? Yeah, we've all known that illegals have been coming across the southern border and yeah, they've been flooding across lately, but don't get too anxious about the situation changing. American business is HOOKED on illegal labor and there ain't nothing gonna' change.

Okay, I'm heading out to the garage and test-fit my new wheels on my Camaro!

[CamarosRus]

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Every American citizen needs to read this!

[Z-11 396]

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Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Every American citizen needs to read this!

[/ QUOTE ] I FULLY AGREE....IF ALL THESE FOLKS WOULD GO BACK TO MEXICO, AND ::PROTEST::, THEN THEY COULD HAVE A COUNTRY AS GOOD AS THE ONE THEY HAVE COME TOO... BUT THERE, THEY WILL PROABLY BE ""SHOT, OR LOCKED UP"" IN JAIL...THEY WANT US TO CHANGE OUR FLAG, OUR LANGUAGE TO SUIT THEM, THE HELL WITH THAT CRAP !!!...NO ! FREE PASS...SIGN UP---PAY UP, LIKE THE REST OF US.....KASEY

[ANDY M]

Did no one notice that not only was the United States flag below the Mexican flag, it was also upside-down, which is always a distress signal?
427TJ is right, this country is hooked on immigrant laborers. They come frome Korea, China, Thailand, Egypt, and every other country. They come in anyway they can, like the 9/11 hijackers with expired student visas.
The Mexicans count for the largest number, but the rest of these folks have to work to eat, just like everybody else.
The US government sets the immigration quota numbers, and our elected officials do nothing to change them. This goes back to when we let people into this counrty based on how much raw labor was needed.
During the "Great Depression", there was no immagration allowed, from any country. That policy has never been changed. Why the INS even exists is a complete mystery.

[Verne_Frantz]

I just had the same conversation last night with a buddy in the shop. We'll take anyone who wants a better life, or a chance to build one. But the only price of admission is that you are required to learn the language.
The biggest reason why most of our property taxes are soaring is due to school budgets. One of the biggest reasons for the higher budgets is the required hiring of multiple-lingual teachers so we can teach people in their native tongues, rather than teach them English first.

I've had a NJ driver's license since late '67, but when I needed to get my new "photo-id" DL, I had to bring 5 pieces of proof that I was me, including my original birth certificate.

Recently, some politicians in NJ want to "give" driver's licenses to illegal immigrants "so they can get to work and be productive citizens".

And this is just after our tightening of security following 9-11.....!

And they say it's the people in the cabins in the mountains who we have to worry about.. Nope! It's the guys in the suits in government buildings who are the real threat to the American way of life.

[Lino]

AMERICA- LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Keith Tedford]

Sounds to me like once these illegals become citizens and legitimate workers, they won't be cheap labor any more. Low wages, for them, are probably better than none when they get displaced by the next wave of illegals. History does seem to repeat itself.

[427TJ]

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And they say it's the people in the cabins in the mountains who we have to worry about.. Nope! It's the guys in the suits in government buildings who are the real threat to the American way of life.

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With help from their corporate lobbyist pals in $3,000 suits who write these so-called "amnesty" bills that protect the steady flow of illegal labor northward.

There I go typing again...