This is going to be a little bit hard to write, without sounding like “so much sour grapes” but I am going to give it a shot anyway.
We ate Chinese today, there is a little place on the south side of town, been eating there for 15-20 years. We have watched the owners’ children grow up, go thru school and on to college, seen the place change decor a couple of times over the years. We have been good, steady customers of this nice small restaurant for quite a long time.
Because we had moved to the country, we had not eaten there in a couple of years, and as luck would have it, today we found ourselves there in the midst of the lunch crowd at a little booth in the back of the room. The food as always was super and we were hungry so it made for a good mix. In some ways, it was almost like before, old home week, call it what you want.
Except for one thing, and that is this.
“No one in the room was speaking English, the entire restaurant had been taken over by people of Mexican and/or Hispanic origin. And no one was speaking the King’s English. Which is, if you are like me, a person who doesn’t speak the language or understand Spanish, well, it was just a lot of noise. Unfortunately, it kind of took away from the meal and it was upsetting.”
It appears that I am now officially in the minority in this country, a white, tax paying member of society. I am also slowly but surely being run out or pushed aside by more than one race of people who were not born here. Mexican’s and Asian’s are now the two fastest growing segments of our society in America. They are also a lot different from what I am used to.
The Mexicans are proud of their country, culture and lifestyle and try to preserve it as much as possible even when they are living anywhere other than Mexico. The Mexican Americans however don’t have to make much effort as the neighboring countries have quite a lot in common.
So, the Mexican American culture is a blend of the culture of both countries, while distinctly being Mexican. This cultural blend stands out amongst many other ethnic groups living in the USA. Now on the other hand, the American Culture, such as it is, fragmented, diverse, and very much mixed, doesn’t stand much of a chance of survival in this day and age.
Mexicans while very big on family life (the center of their culture really) are doing well and thriving. While on the American side of the scale, they are divorcing in record numbers and the family unit is quickly disappearing in this country.
A lot of these people are being provided benefits for free, all they had to do is show up. I had to serve six years in the military in order to qualify for some of mine (the very few I have left). Most of us had to go to school, graduate and learn a skill before going to work. All they had to do is cross what was or is basically an open border. The truly sad thing is the way they are exploited by those who hold the purse strings, and often, entered into almost involuntary servitude (wage slavery) by American businessmen.
Only a few pay taxes, in my home state only one in five bother to purchase car insurance, they quickly sign up for social programs and assistance, not only for themselves, but their entire family. In other words, they don’t play by the rules, take more than they give back. Now I know that sounds harsh, but it is a proven reality in this country and has been this way for a long time.
You know, if you take a frog and dump him in a pot of hot water, he will jump right out. But take the same frog, place him in a pan of cold water, then apply the heat slowly just a little at a time, and he will stay in the pot until he dies.
Why?
“Because you changed his environment, a little bit at a time, not all at once.”
Same thing here. Inch by inch, slowly but surely, the fabric of this country is being re-arranged. The signage is slowly shifting to Spanish first and English second, one milepost at a time, this country is going down the tubes (the America that I grew up in and loved).
Today, while sitting in this noisy crowded little restaurant it came home to haunt me. I am slowly becoming a stranger in my own land, and of course, I resent it. This is no longer an immigration issue, this is colonization of a country, plain and simple.
And I honestly feel I have to wonder about this one simple fact of life.
In the end, will there be any room left for me?
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Creative Endeavors is not the only place I raise my voice, I do it everywhere and you should too. This is gleaned from another board that I frequent, and of course, “where I also make all kinds of new friends.” (The links do not work)
Don Smith ’65 – Nov 12, 2008 Edit | Delete | Viewers | Reply to this item
Seems to me that we are being too quick to lay this off on Mr. Obama. Some good reading over here, have not been around for awhile, things are exploding over at Creative Endeavors ever since Mr. Obama made the cut. Janice Bullock Hubbard made some really interesting points, and gave us all something to think about.
Personally, I don’t want to be on free money and I don’t think living at the bottom of the scale is a good place to be, but that is me. I also understand that when a society, any society, becomes dependent on the government for its livelihood, it folds. Almost like a black hole, a dying star, it implodes inward and is no more. It is economics more so that it is social, when a government has more going out than it has coming in, then it will fold. We are there right now, we could be even worse two, three, four years from now. Mr. Obama may be our newly found appointed savior and he might not be? Only time will tell.
Erosion of democracy is a serious problem. My first indicator of this disgusting pockmarked open sore on the face of democracy appeared after Katrina and New Orleans. I saw daily each night on the news, the results of people living in a welfare state. Some are ugly, some incredibly beautiful. Alaska for most intents and purposes is a welfare state, but you cannot miss the incredible raw beauty of the place.
Now here is my reality, he is on the front page of this site, Bobby Lopez (a soldier in Iraq) and thousands like him, stuck in an illegal war (perpetrated on half-truths and lies), and I want them to come home. Mr. Obama promised to do that. After 8 years of the Bush Wrecking Crew I am not in that good shape to begin with, I certainly did not need another four years of that.
People are so quick to point out the working poor, the disenfranchised in this country as the root problem, but it is not so. We have the highest prices for sugar in the world, why, because of “Sugar Farmers and Sugar Substitutes” paid out by the government. We are paying people to NOT raise crops or animals, where is the logic in that? We pay people all the time to NOT make things, to NOT attend, to …….. oh well, you get the drift.
You don’t like them doling it out to lazy no good what-evers, then give them a job picking up trash on the highway, raking leaves, doing something. Put some sweat equity in the law, give it some teeth. And if some whining punk politician doesn’t want to do it, then vote his dumb a** out and get a new government moron on to handle your business.
This is the part that is really going to stick in your craw, but I am going to say it anyway. It is up to “us” to do something about all this.
There would be plenty of money to go around if someone would stop the hemorrhaging of the economy, the loss of jobs going overseas, the corporations in this country who cheat or downright do NOT pay taxes are legions.
American Express this week declared itself “a bank” in order to sign up for some of the free money, another hog comes to the trough, and we welcome it with loving arms, lipstick or not.
Problems, a lot of problems, and until we are willing as a race of people (A United race of people) to sit down and work it out, to do something other than lament and complain, it will remain the way it is.
We have 500 and something people telling us what to do (U.S. Congress), think about it, 330 million people being bossed around (in some cases by complete bozo’s) and we allow it. When all the time we have not only the right, but the instruments in place to throw the bums out, but we sit home and munch on chips instead of going to the polls.
We sit around and bitch about everything, but we do nothing to change it all. Now there is nothing “personal in this” and I mean no malice. But perhaps it is time, high time, we stop complaining about our housekeepers and instead, clean up our own house, and at the same time, make it a better world for all.
That is our reality. And if you vote for me ….
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Like I said, “When you find it, attack it, you are somebody and you can make a difference.”
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