As Forrest Gump would say … “Mama Sez … Stupid Is As Stupid Does.”
I could not believe my eyes, but there it was just sort of leaping from the front page of the paper. A new study in June said that tighter border controls have turned the two-way migration path into one heading only north. Traditionally, when the economy slumped, Mexicans would return home to Mexico.
But fortunately, the United States has a profound tendency to give away everything for free, to make available to almost anyone tantalizing lifestyles, far better than poverty, even at reduced levels. This has enticed illegals to stay. And with housing going begging in this country, more and more are becoming property owners.
They used to go home … But not now.
They are staying longer, putting down roots, were here, get used to it. Why not? You sign up for welfare and the government gives you $1,200 to buy your kids clothing, our schools require us, to provide your kids with all the tools they need to work with (pencils, paper, etc, etc) and every _______ whim that you have is addressed with certainty. You come to Oklahoma to work in a pig factory, and they give you $2,800 to buy a house in the panhandle, and if you stay five years, they forgive the note.
You don’t buy car insurance, pay taxes, bother to get a drivers lic. and avail yourself of every free service you can locate, life here is good to you. We print up everything in your native language and because you are desperate and ignorant, and you will work for slave wages doing about just any kind menial non-skilled type of job that is available. You are employable, even tho you are basically unskilled and mostly illiterate. Why wouldn’t you want to live here?
But wait, it gets ever better … Now for the really stupid part.
In some ways, we are making it harder for illegals, Mexicans, Latino’s, whatever they are calling them this week to leave the country. California’s border patrol has been pulling immigrants off buses HEADED FOR MEXICO and arresting others attempting TO DRIVE OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
True, they were caught on U.S. soil but if we want them to leave, this surely seems the wrong way to address the problem.
This weekend I learned that in Garden City, Kansas immigration arrested 48 hapless souls in a meat processing plant during a five day sweep. They were from El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Viet Nam.
33 of these “fine citizens that only come here to work” had previous criminal convictions.
Now let me see. 48 arrested in 5 days, that would be 48/5=10 per day (approx) and there are an estimated 22,000,000 in the country. Hmmm, that is pretty impressive, at these figures; we will be rid of all of them in a little under …. uh …. never!
Will the last person to leave “America” please turn off the lites.
USA Todays’ Headline for 6-30-08 … BIRTHS FUELING HISPANIC GROWTH …. Man that is a no brainer there. There is another thing I suppose is new. Well maybe they can all go live at “Baracks House.” Throw another can of beans in the pot Obammer, company is a comin!
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The news depresses me… But for some reason, when I read the spin that you add, it is slightly easier to take.
The news as you put it, is usually bad to begin with, so that is understandable. I seem to rely more and more on the Internet for my news, because I can sift thru it and take what it is that I want, and for the most part, leave the rest of it alone.
As for how I see it, I would rather find the amusing and humorous side of life, I get too far too much of the other. Hope you enjoyed your holiday.
DS
Comment by betme — July 2, 2008 @ 3:00 pm