Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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serai
[Read the article: How to stop illegal Canadian immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"and all you flag-pin-wearing fence lovers, answer me this:"
Point out to me where I state I a) wear a flag pin and/or b) want a physical fence. Thank you.
'When your lovely fence is all built and staffed'
See above.
', and the gummint has done its work and rounded up all the evil immigrants and punted them back to wherever they came from, tell me, who will do their jobs? You know, the jobs that nobody else wants?'
Point out to me where I suggest this. Anyway while you're gnawing on that, consider this: Which jobs are you describing oh racist liberal one? Down here a lot of illegals are in the construction trades. I KNOW the guys who did my roof were illegal and they were paid ~$17/hr to do that work - compared to about $25/hr for non illegal labor. It's a quaint myth that all illegals wear sombreros and mow lawns. In fact there was a piece a year ago on NPR/WUNC that charted the business of illegals in the nearby Charlotte construction biz - their figures closely match my own.
'Are you going to pick strawberries for $3 an hour?'
No that's what machines are for. You see I live in an agricultural area that happens to be the #1 fastest growing region for illegals in the United States. The illegals aren't working in poultry processing plants for $3/hr. They're working for $7.50 - 8/hr or $2.50- 3/hr LESS than citizens.
'Clean toilets? Blow leaves off rich people's lawns?'
No that's not something I would tend to do. But then again, there are lots of high school dropout in the US who might.
'Electro, will you be happy doing laundry for some Beverly Hills richie for $20 a day?'
My friend's cleaning lady is an illegal Ukranian. She makes about $100/day pushing a vacuum cleaner. The expenses come out of her own end; gasoline, her own clothes, etc.
'I'm always amused by people who go on about the dirty illegals and how they steal from us, when half the US economy is propped up by the fact that those "illegals" are willing to do all the jobs that the precious snowflake gringoes wouldn't deign to soil themselves with.'
That's rich. 1 out of 10 Americans is functionally unemployable because of minor criminal records e.g. low level drug convictions and no one, NO ONE, gives a fucking liberal shit that they can't get jobs. Everyone's ready to wear their fucking "I support Illegals" button but when it comes to pressuring employers, lease holders, banks, to give a break to people who ARE citizens and have been already kicked to the curb, it's 'Oh well, I guess you're not oppressed enough 'gringo'. Well fuck you too pal.
Sure, it's a great a noble fucking thing you do preaching about people who aren't in the system, but the millions who already are, who got boosted with some weed, or a DUI or a few bad decisions in life - all of a sudden all the fucking liberals turn into social Darwinists and it's fuck you Charlie, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps while we coddle 3 million people who washed up here with better PR than you. No, hon - fuck you.
'They blame the people desperate for work and a decent life, instead of the corporations and bosses who'll happily throw over American workers in favor of the savings to be had through using the very people demonized by the politicians they buy and pay for.'
Blah blah blah save it for the Samizdat handout and the Wobblies meeting. People like YOU are the enemy, the problem. You're the ogre, pushing someone else out of the way, some citizen down on their luck, on your trip to the next La Raza consciousness raising session. So again, fuck you, snowflake.
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mjwycha
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]no no no no those are proxies. Do you know what's real? The fact that 80%+ of the total healthcare consumed in your entire life are consumed in the last year of life. To me that's just utter selfishness and one of the leading causes of why everything is unaffordable. My parents generation massively expanded the entitlement of all health care to the point where the US govt spends 10x per capita on old people than it does on children. Why? AARP has lobbying money, kids don't.
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Again though this 'retirement' thing
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lest we forget that in 1940 the average retiree would collect benefits for about 13 months. Now it's 20x that assuming the old model of kicking back to the bass boat at age 55.
I'm not going to be able to afford to do that and neither will you. I will be working at least part time very nearly up until the day I drop in the harness. You have 3 options:
Outlive your money
Outlive your healthcare
Die early
But I'm still subsidizing the Geezers of Yesteryore. Lucky me.
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Syrian Blogger gets 3 years in jail
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/14/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Blogger.php
I blame America, Israel, the west, capitalism, Starbucks, white people and of course all the Jews.
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Why is BS so obsessed with fake progress in Bronze Age nations
[Read the article: Cross-dressing in Saudi Arabia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While it never addresses real success anywhere else? One would think, (If one bothered to think let alone were permitted to here) that BS is underwritten by the Saudi Royal Family in an effort to portray the Kingdom as "More Hip Than You Evah Knew." That's becoming more apparent with every day. IS Salon.com financially supported by Arab investors? It's clear they pretty have the dirt on Glenn Greenwald's barking dog and pony show. Et tu Broadsheet?
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Sure, until
[Read the article: Rape kits for "Jane Doe"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first woman is convicted of murder based on one of these anonymous DNA kits. Then it will be some kind of violation of gibbity jab and such like.
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So the secret invisible non explosive bombing is going on already
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon's war in Iran is like a disease with no symptoms, cause or cure.