Letters to the Editor
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Electro, Gengis
and all you flag-pin-wearing fence lovers, answer me this:
When your lovely fence is all built and staffed, 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?
Are you going to pick strawberries for $3 an hour? Clean toilets? Blow leaves off rich people's lawns? Electro, will you be happy doing laundry for some Beverly Hills richie for $20 a day? Gengis, wanna try making it selling lemonade from a push-cart? How many days will you be willing to stand around a Home Depot parking lot hoping some sleazy construction honcho will let you lay pipe on his latest project for half wages paid under the table? You okay with your daughters making $5 an hour 12 hours a day in a garment district sweatshop? We won't get into the slaughterhouse jobs - go rent Fast Food Nation to get yourself educated on those wonderful career opportunities.
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. 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.