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ClaudiaStar Cholo Nako
Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 31 Location: Denver, Colorado
     
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 12:00 PM Post subject: |
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"Ask a field worker who breaks a back to get you a cheap lettuce at your local grocery store, ask one of them who works or not. It comes down to the "gringo" not wanting to do the dirty work, who else will?"
Look, i'm not blind. I know that people work long hours under the sun and that takes a lot. I do not believe that rethoric that "Mexicans take jobs American won't do" and I could debate the for hours. Its offensive to hear that from politicians here in the U.S.A. Americans will do the farm work, Americans will work on hotels, Americans will work low wages. This country was shaped with the hands of immigrants that worked hard and worked many difficult jobs and made this country what it is today. It was ambitious Americans who worked hard to provide food to their families. It was all good until the hippie generation kicked in and made this country lazy. That wil change.
Another point I want to make is that from the most part illegal aliens do not contribute to society. They want to stay on their safe jobs with their safe checks for a very long time. For example, my first job was at the Burger King in El Centro and I met this guy who----up until this day-----works at the Burger king. He is an illegal. My point is proven here that this gentlemen is working there instead of going to school, making his own business, or do something to move up. Illegals like him do not contribute to society because if this gentlemen has not gone to school his life would be better. If you study and get a degree you will benefit yourself and the community in general because you have an education. Instead most of illegals stay in the bottom and they conform to their little salary, lousy job, and rent their single room. I know that are many success stories but its a painful truth that most illegals don't pursue the American Dream.
What they must do is to become a citiezen, go to community college, get a job, do your business, and be their own boss. They must work hard to OWN their lives, OWN their time, OWN their car, OWN their house. Most illegals stay at the bottom to eat dirt all their lives and wait until big government comes and help them. Guess what? government will never come.
Mexico is a corrupt country. The more corruption the country is the more need for masters the people will want to have. That's the main problem. Maybe we should send a clear message for those who want to come here that government will not help them and that they need to to work many years to OWN their lives, OWN their money, and OWN their piece of the American Dream. |
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Mars Tecato Revisited
Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 1363 Location: mangled in blackhole
  
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 12:33 PM Post subject: |
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Man we should hook this chick up with Radiodude.
Any how that is the most ridiculus argument, if we can call it one, that I have ever read, barring some of radiodudes of course.
How does this BK worker not help society by serving up hungry people their tasty whoppers during lunch.
Going to school and getting your OWN business sounds like a personal dreams that you should not impose on others.
Education is there for those who want it, why would you want a bunch of disgruntled students going to college it will be just like High School, some people just hate school.
Finally, how the hell do you know that this BK guy or some one in a similar position isn't sending his child to harvard? |
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ClaudiaStar Cholo Nako
Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 31 Location: Denver, Colorado
     
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 12:59 PM Post subject: |
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Mars,
I know this guy's family. They are good people and I like them but they have the "Government- Help- me- please" mentality. All I can say is that I have the best argument so far and non of you have given me a valid counter-argument.
C'mon guys, I dare you to be more intelligent. |
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elchrist See-thru Afro
Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 7562 Location: Calecia.com
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 01:51 PM Post subject: |
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| ClaudiaStar wrote: | I know this guy's family. They are good people and I like them but they have the "Government- Help- me- please" mentality. All I can say is that I have the best argument so far and non of you have given me a valid counter-argument.
C'mon guys, I dare you to be more intelligent. |
This person you know might have this type of mentality, but that's not every (illegal) immigrant's intentions once they arrive in the United States or any other country for that matter.
This type of lifestyle can be said about every nationality, race and human being in existence, yet your claim is most prevalent in our region because, guess what, there are more Latinos here than any other race. So per capita there are more humans that are Latinos taking advantage of the system. But I can assure you that the more you traverse the USA you will find that whites, blacks, browns, yellows, reds and purples all have these group of "slackers" in their communities... illegal or not.
What we obviously need is a much better guest worker program. Don't think that every immigrant worker wants to come to the US and live out the "American Dream." That's not everyone's dream. That's definitely not my dream. |
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Encanto Dishonorable Discharge
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 394 Location: So Cal
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 05:00 PM Post subject: |
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"Its offensive to hear that from politicians here in the U.S.A. Americans will do the farm work, Americans will work on hotels, Americans will work low wages"
"Reform must begin by confronting a basic fact of life and economics: some of the jobs being generated in America's growing economy are jobs American citizens are not filling. Yet these jobs represent a tremendous opportunity for workers from abroad who want to work and fulfill their duties as a husband or a wife, a son or a daughter." -Dubya Bush
Do "Americans" really want to fill them jobs or is Dubya wrong? |
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Mars Tecato Revisited
Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 1363 Location: mangled in blackhole
  
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Posted: 29 Mar 2006 08:11 AM Post subject: |
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| ClaudiaStar wrote: | Mars,
I know this guy's family. They are good people and I like them but they have the "Government- Help- me- please" mentality. All I can say is that I have the best argument so far and non of you have given me a valid counter-argument.
C'mon guys, I dare you to be more intelligent. |
You know what though, I personally know of C.com members who's parents worked the fields and still managed to get a college education. I also know of people on this site who did not attend college and yet make more money than those who did doing something they truly enjoy. I just poked to big ass holes in you so-called valid argument.
For the record it is very sad to know that you are basing your opinion on this issue based a a dude who works at burger king. I've meet many illegals and sometimes it's just hard for them to get a break. |
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chuco boy Dishonorable Discharge
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 361
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Posted: 29 Mar 2006 08:50 AM Post subject: Aztlan Nation |
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Nobody is illegal. The US is just another conquered country by some white dudes who are proficient in land deeds, writing laws and fighting with guns. Ask the American Indians about illegal aliens..Yep after slaughtering the Indians and or putting them on reservations; bringing African citizens against their will- forcibly in chains. The history books called it slavery.Later entering Mexico illegally to conquer land.
Who's calling who illegal?
In ten years- all of SoCal will be Mexican-Mestizo anyways. I can't tell the difference between a Mexican born in El Centro or a Mexican born in Hermosillo.
I'm still trying to understand the Burger King story.... |
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elchrist See-thru Afro
Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 7562 Location: Calecia.com
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Posted: 29 Mar 2006 10:25 AM Post subject: |
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About 100 Brawley High School students skipped class on Tuesday to march down Highway 86 towards Imperial in what was supposed to be a protest against H.R. 4437.
They never made it to Imperial.
Imperial Valley Students Protest Immigration Policy
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12058137/ |
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elchrist See-thru Afro
Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 7562 Location: Calecia.com
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Posted: 29 Mar 2006 01:17 PM Post subject: |
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| elchrist wrote: | | Encanto wrote: | | It comes down to the "gringo" not wanting to do the dirty work, who else will? |
No one.
Until the ag industry is completely mechanized and automated, Latin Americans will be needed to pick our crops.
Let's face the reality here and come to grips that the fact that we need a global work force to be competitive in a global economy. |
Check out this podcast from Bill Handel's KFI AM 640 show on 3/28/2006.
Being Illegal in Mexico (requires iTunes)
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=80113450&s=143441&i=3972381
He talks about how Central Americans (Guatemalans, El Salvadorians, etc.), who are illegal immigrants, end up doing the jobs in Mexico that Mexicans don't want to do, such as field working, so the employers end up paying the Central Americans less than Mexico's minimum wage to do the work. |
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verbal Cole
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 2504 Location: C-Town
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Posted: 29 Mar 2006 07:08 PM Post subject: |
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| ClaudiaStar wrote: | | C'mon guys, I dare you to be more intelligent. |
The hippie generation made this country lazy? That's a new one to me...*
Illegal aliens do not contribute to society?
Illegals pay their taxes.
1. When they purchase any thing they pay their taxes. (sales tax)
2. When they fill up their gas tanks they pay not only a federal but a state tax.
3. By working with some one else's Social their employers pay them not under the table but with checks. These checks have already being taxed. (income tax)
4. Illegals cannot file taxes each year, thus they contribute a little more in taxes than those in their same social economic background. (no tax return)
5. Indirectly illegals pay property tax. Since most of them cannot owe a home they pay rent. These houses, apartments, or condos are owned by a legal citizen who pays property tax. Without these illegals renting out a person's fourth house, that owner could not have afforded to pay the property tax on that house. (property tax/indirectly)
6. In a Wal-mart driven society, I mean a capitalist society, where price is the single most important factor illegals help maintain dollar menus and tightly made linens.
Taxation without representation at its best and it keeps a balance in our capitalist driven society.
The American dream. Yes, everyone will like to have the wife, 2.7 kids, house, car, and dog, but the reality is that rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. Social Darwinism at its best.
The reason why most illegals cannot move up the social ladder is not for a lack of ambitionn. If anything they have proven that they have no ego because many of them had a higher social class in their mother country, but are willling to leave that complacency for a shot at a better life. I have known doctors, arquitects and other highly educated people who are now working in a degrading minimum wage job. And the simple reason why they are stuck in the same working environment lies on the fact that they do not have papers and are scared of being deported.
Another dilemma they encounter is that they cannot receive an American education past high school.
1. They do not qualify for financial aid. I do not mean free money (grants), but loans. Most college students cannot afford their college tuition, and rely on Fafsa and other lending institutions to provide in a time of need.
2. I have never heard of any university saying you can get a free education. Pay your tuition or get out.
3. Most colleges will not even accept you if you cannot provide legal citizenship. Not because you are an illegal alien, but because they know that you cannot obtain a legal job after you graduate. Is a law firm, school district, County job or any other B.A., M.A, Ph.D requiring employment hire you without not knowing who you really are?
Lasty, illegal aliens do not vote meaning that American laws and policies remain just like how Americans want to keep them.
* My bad for the long post. |
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