Letters to the Editor
ann1960
Published Letters: 54 Editor's Choice: 4
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re: airamana
[Read the article: Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So you think I'm a minuteman sitting around making up stories about illegal aliens? Sorry to disappoint you, I simply posted a true story because I worked at the elections office and got an insiders view of what was right, and wrong, with our system.
I suppose if I told you that my 72 year old mom ended up in the hospital because she was hit by a SUV with an illegal alien driving (no license, no insurance)-- you'd think I'm that same lying minuteman, right? Well, it happened, and I spoke with the cops on the scene who gave me that information. I suspected they were illegal when they couldn't speak a word of English, but when I found out the the young woman driver didn't even have a license to drive, well, I was spitting mad. Yeah, my mom ended up in the hospital, and you think I'm some minuteman making up these hate stories. Notice how I haven't given the race of these people??? Because that it not the issue!!!! The issue is that we all have to obey the laws of the land, don't you agree? When I lived in foreign countries, I learned to speak their language, and I lived by the law of their land, because it was the right thing to do. Isn't it fair of us to ask of people who visit or live in this country to comply with our laws??
And FYI, that young woman driver was not deported.
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re: anonymous/overpopulation
[Read the article: You can't stop a tidal wave with a fork]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bravo to you, Anonymous, for talking about overpopulation, that old elephant in the living room that everyone chooses to ignore.
A few points to add: If everyone on the planet chose to have two children w/ their partner from this moment on, we wouldn't immediately stabilize the population at six billion because their is a "lag effect." That is, the base of the population pyramid is mostly young children who haven't had their two kids yet. The best case scenario that I have come across is that the world's population will stabilize at 16 billion. Considering that the world's food output per capita peaked in the late 1970's (re: we produce more food now globally than in the late 1970's, but because there are so many more humans, we have less per person if it was distributed evenly amongst us.) That is a sobering thought, oh fellow reader who has a full stomach and a computer in front of them.
I often hear this argument: If all the world's people were standing together in a group, they would all fit into Rhode Island, so what's the problem? This is how I respond: OK, if you have a 2,000 square foot home, and you now have 5 people living in it, you have room for 995 more people (with each person getting 2 square feet.) Can you imagine what your quality of life would be?
This artical touches on many important issues, but the bottom line is this: If we overburden our limited physical environment with our ever growing masses (10,000 humans are adder per hour after birth/deaths), then the poverty and famine of today will pale in comparison to what awaits us.
For everyone on the planet to live the lifestyle of today's United States, we would need six planets. Ain't gonna happen, folks.
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the money issue
[Read the article: GOP candidates mum on immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, vegetables, lawn care, and dishwashing costs will go up, but there is a flip side. For every kid an illegal alien has, we have to pony up another seven thousand dollars per year for schooling this child. Add to this the cost of medical care and social services, and you see that it gets expensive. Illegal aliens are taking the jobs americans won't take for the paltry wages, but other Americans are kicking in (via higher property taxes, medical costs, etc.) to offset the cost of providing education and health care services for these (mostly) poor people.
McCain said that Americans won't pick lettuce, not even for 50 dollars an hour (you can google it for more information.) He was inundated with job applications for picking lettuce. Amercians will do these jobs, but not for pennies on the dollar.
If you think I'm racist, then google Caesar Chavez-- he was a big proponent of curtailing the flow of illegal workers because that doomed the workers already here a life of low wages. After all, why pay someone a living wage when an illegal immigrant will do it for a fraction of that amount?
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news today
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh right?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the news today was something interesting: California is short on farm labor (about 500,000 is what the report said) to harvest crops. Guess where the illegals who had been working these ag jobs in California went? They headed to Nevada, to work on construction projects. Can you see the irony in that? Pro-illegal immigrant people always say that they'll do the jobs that Americans won't do, so it does have irony that the thousands who left for Nevada don't want these jobs, either. And, they are now in construction, which are jobs that Americans WILL do, but not at the low wages that the illegals will do it for. So the cycle continues: New illegals take the job of "old" illegals who have gone on to higher paying jobs. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that millions more illegal immigrants are waiting to jump the line, and that the US can't continue to absorb the endless (yes, endless) supply of poor middle and South Americans. And for those of you who write that the illegals clean your houses and do your yards, I say this: millions of Americans clean their own houses and mow their own yards, and I am one of them. And we are NOT all Republicans, and we are mad that our laws are not being enforced so that you can have your cheap labor.