I am not quite sure what the fear of Mexicans is all about lately.
A guy at work told me it relates to some reports of Mexicans claiming they will take Texas, and America, back.
I don't buy it.
Yes, we will become predominantly Hispanic over time, but the fear of "outsiders" coming and "taking over" is as old as time.
One hundred years ago it was fear of the Italians and Germans.
"We will loose English as our language!".
What time has proved is the parents may never learn English, but the children do.
They want to fit in with the predominant culture.
My grandparents were from Germany.
My father never learned it.
My sister had to go to school to learn it.
Yes, there are some spots where English is not the language of business, such as China Town, but last time I checked, San Fransico still speaks Spanish.
(Or is that Surfer Dude?)
Anyway...
Right now the big push is to spend our money to place the National Guard along the US/Mexico border.
Texas is taking about building a 700 mile, (700 MILES) of border fence to help keep out "Terrorists".
The September 11th bad guys got in to the country legally.
They didn't come in through Mexico.
The other concern is to "stop" illegal aliens.
If the politicians REALLY wanted to stop illegal immigration,
(instead of playing this polital game)
they would take that same money and hire and pay inspectors to investigate and FINE the American Companies that Hire those Illegal Aliens,
(the REASON most cross the border in the first place).
Those politicians should place the responsibility where it belongs.
Illegals take the worst jobs, the most dangerous jobs, and the
American Businesses PROFIT.
I once watched a crazy Mexican paint the soffit and eave of an apartment building four flights up.
He was not provided with the proper equipment to do the job.
Being creative, and as I said, Crazy, he had tied two extension ladders together, climbed the 40-50 feet to the top, and with paint bucket in hand,
he Hopped-the -ladder-along-the-face-of-the-building,
using a rope to pull up a fresh bucket of paint.
If he had fallen, it would have been to the parking lot below, that is if he missed the 6 foot metal picket fence.
His boss didn't have to pay his insurance, or for proper equipment, a scafold or scissor lift. He didn't pay him minimum wage.
"Protecting the boarder" makes for great "talk radio".
People who are All Talk and No Do.
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I read an interesting article from a decidedly Democratic point of view.
Chicken Little didn't have to DO much other than run around crying, "The Sky is Falling!!" and he got lots of attention from his friends and neighbors.
The article reflected on the last five years.
Some of the facts it gave were
There have been no Terrorist sponsored attacks in American in the last five years.
In the five years before The eleventh of September, 2001, there were also no terrorist sponsored attacks in America.
The FBI and CIA have admitted that they have not been very efficient in preventing unwanteds from coming into the States.
There have been terrorist attacks in Europe and Asia since that time.
The attacks on New York and Washington took years to plan.
But the train bombings in Spain took less than 6 months to put together and pull off.
And the attacks on the London Metro also took less than a year to put together.
The author speculated that the Hatred of America is not as great as some would have us believe.
And that the violence by the extremeist itself has hurt their cause.
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Daily Americans are killed by Terrorists, but not in America.
Daily Americans are reminded of the horrors of "those who want to harm us", but not by Binladen.
There is a lot of money in terrorism.
And our Government and military machine is raking it in...
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My mother , a life long Republican and Texan, voted for the first time in her 50 years of voting and participating in Republican politics, for a democrat.
She was very observant about things and prophetic in others.
Bush Jr. scared her and she feared he was going to get us in serious trouble.
She was right on the money.
She voted Democratic in a Republican state to keep Bush Jr. out of the White House and out of History.
Bush,
not Bin Laden,
is the reason Americans die daily in the Middle East.
