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Support the country you work in or get the hell out! |
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| Posted by: whiskeychick |
4/10/2006 8:44 AM |
It seems like very few people have a clear understanding of how illigal immigration affects their day to day life... Let me show you how it effects mine.
Something to consider when you're reading HR4437
Let me take you through a day in my not so distant past...
It's a friday morning and I'm up at 5:30 to get the kids dressed and myself ready for the day ahead. We get in the car and drive to their grandma's house where the younger two will stay all day. I help her get the eldest ready for school and off he goes. I turn around and head off to work, stopping for gas along the way. The gas station parking lot has a crowd of about 15-20 (I'm assuming) undocumented workers hovering around the pumps asking for money and day work from anyone with a truck. Of course I'm not a candidate for such solicitation so all I get are lewd jeers and the usual two or three that actually shadow just a foot or two behind me as I walk in to pay for my gas and coffee. I'm thankful for not understanding what their saying because by their tone of voice I'm sure it isn't something I want to hear.
Anyhow, work is uneventful, but the drive in and out takes forever because of all the traffic. After lunch I make my weekly call to my son's teacher and we discuss his progress while she praises him. I think to myself that it's such a pity this woman doesn't make double or triple her salary because I have never seen a more caring, patient or dedicated teacher. Then I remember that every k-3 classroom at that school is equipped with a full time bilingual teacher's aid to translate to the non-english speaking students. I wonder how much they make.
Now the work day is through, and it's payday so I look over my paystub and I'm reminded that I lose nearly a quarter of my overall income to taxes that pay for benefits that I don't qualify for since apparently I make just a little too much for a single mother of three. I run along to pick up my children and as we're waiting at the light to get back on the overcrowded freeway, they notice a man on the corner asking for change. My eldest of course has many questions and I answer them the best I can, but when he asks "Well aren't there enough jobs for everybody?" I just don't know what to say. How can I relate all this to a five year old? How can I tell him that the common hardworking man got under-bid long ago by people who will do the jobs for half the price and never pay a dime in taxes, only to send the money back to their home countries instead of spending it on local businesses? Instead I just tell him that I don't know. He's shocked... that's an answer he rarely ever gets from me.
We finally make it home, and the kids go to play in the yard while I make dinner. Then... my worst fear. I hear screaming and run out to see what happened. One of them has gotten a cut from a piece of wood and it's mamma-nurse into high gear! I convince one child to hold the gauze on the cut while I somehow get them all into the car again and we're off to the emergency room. Several hours, 4 stitches, and a lollipop later we head back home where I worry about how much money that just set me back. You see... I work for a living. I raise these kids on my own. I make just enough that I don't qualify for state health coverage for them, but I don't make enough to pay for it on my own. So I pay for their annual checkups in full, and deal with the ER costs as they come since they are so rare.
Then the day comes. The bill shows up in my mail. $1300 (not including the anestheseologist) for four stitches and a bandaid. I wonder what percent of the bill pays for people who don't pay their own bill? What percent goes to cushion the blow of all those who are on state coverage? I get angry. Angry that I work my ass off and do everything I can to give my kids a good role model and the best of everything I can afford, and I wonder how many priveleges I will have to forsake to cover this over-inflated bill. I'm angry that this land of opportunity and generoustiy has been overrun by freeloaders and now those leeches are asking for more. I'm angry that my dreams may never come true because I'm too busy working and paying for theirs. |
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Re: Support the country you work in or get the hell out! |
By Sixx on
4/11/2006 9:14 AM |
| Hey if the government decided to go door to door checking SSN cards and birth certificates I would pony up and show it. Arrest any who don't have proper documentation to be here and ship them out. They are marching and arguing that they deserve rights and that if they stopped buying for one day it would hurt our economy but if they were gone all the money going into taking care of their 20 kids medical and housing... aw hell there would be plenty of money for our natural citizens and .... well, who knows? But I definitely see where you are coming from and you do real good with what you got and especially all on your own. |
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Re: Support the country you work in or get the hell out! |
By TallUSAFMan on
4/12/2006 3:53 PM |
| Have you heard on the town in CA that boats being 97% Hispanic and 70% illegal? I think it's called Maywood, CA. They claim to be a "Beacon of Light" and a save passage for al illegals that venture there.. now if we just started right there... |
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Re: Support the country you work in or get the hell out! |
By whitey on
4/23/2006 5:03 PM |
| thats why in these days and times its people like you that are true american heroes.....there may be superman and wonderwoman but when your son thinks about it mom is the hero....all these freeloaders dont make that so, it is there in itself..but with the circumstances you have to overcome involving illegals and freeloaders you are even in my eyes a true hero hats off to ya! |
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Re: Support the country you work in or get the hell out! |
By guitarsandcadillacs on
6/7/2006 8:34 AM |
| Not that I don't agree on some level my dear...but, who'd do the jobs the illegals do if they all left? There are jobs in america, thousands, and the homeless dude on the corner could go get one at any number of McDonalds, digging ditches, etc if he really wanted to. You think that some landscape business owner is gonna turn down an american over a mexican if he can pay them the same and they'll work just as hard? Americans are the laziest people in the world, we're fat, over-stimulated, and lazy. Mexicans know they can get work here because all of the trailer trash won't do it. You are lucky, like me and some others, that we have somewhat of an education and can work a somewhat cushy job, it's easy to go to work in an office. Digging ditches all day sucks, and I wouldn't do it unless I was homeless...Illegals will do ANYTHING for money, and that's saying something. I wish americans would do the same...me included. I saw a bunch of "white, red-state, camoflauge wearing" folks protesting at an illegal immigrant work station on bell road months ago...All i could think when I saw the 350 pound trailer trash lady with bad roots was "as if you're gonna go mow someones lawn if these guys go home! as if you're gonna go stucco a house, dig a ditch and do some framing today if these guys leave the country." Think about it...not everyone has what it takes to do every job. |
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