For the past couple of years I have been listening to and reading some of the most powerful voices in America LYING to me, and my fellow Americans. They are telling me that we have to “get rid of illegal immigrants.” Feces Del Toro. We need to protect them from our own avarice, assure their safety and welfare, pay them a decent wage, welcome them into our communities and beg them to stay.
The problem of illegal immigration is simple. WE NEED THEIR BENT BACKS, AND THEIR HARD WORK, OR WE HAVE TO DO IT OURSELVES.
A software developer, with a mouth full of french fries from McDonald’s looks out over an onion field and sees hundreds of bent brown backs gathering onions and putting them into a box, thinking all the while that those sweating dirty bodies belong in Mexico or Central America and says to his friend with the mouth full of Big Mac...”Those illegals should all be deported.” Well deport them, and send the Big Mac with them. Let the french fries rot in the ground, unharvested because the software developer and his pal will not bend over and put the potato in the box. He will not go up the ladder and hand pick the apple or the orange or the peach that will be his finishing touch to the lunch he is enjoying.
Send the illegals home, and CLEAN YOUR OWN OFFICE. You get the honor of scrubbing out the toilets at work, carrying the trash to the bin out in the alley and cleaning the floors of the cubicle you work in. Sure, you earn 50 dollars an hour to produce the program that makes the record keeping easy, but that toilet still has to be cleaned every day, unless you are willing to share filth with all the other developers in your room full of cubes.
Do you really enjoy steak and lobster for dinner? Well go to a slaughter house for a few hours every day and MAKE steak. Or head for a cannery on the coast and prep that lobster catch, the thousands that are eaten every day for sale. And, why should you get your 50 an hour when you are doing that. After all the people doing it right now are earning one fifth that amount.
Sure you can find reasons for SENDING them all home, but you will want them back as soon as you get to the grocery store and find there are no packaged foods, fresh foods, organic apples or even bulk rice.
Get Real. You wear what they unload from shipping containers. You eat what they harvest, you live in a house they likely nailed together. YOU DID NOT DO THAT WORK. They did. You walk around in shoes that were taken from the container ship and put into the store your hard earned money was spent in. When you check into the spa for a facial, mud bath, massage and make over, that spa is clean, the towels and sheets you use are clean and on the shelf, and it is almost certain that you did not wash, iron, fold or put out any of them. You want to send these people home? You should be demanding that they get proper pay and benefits. You should be insisting that they have the best life in the USA has to offer, and YOU should be demanding that YOU pay for it. Of course I would be happy to provide the services you enjoy, but not for six fifty an hour. I rather enjoy spending a few hours with my family each day, finding out how school is going, and eating a nice, bountiful and nutritious meal.
You have everything you need. You don’t have everything you want. It does not matter who you are, where you are or what you are doing. You have everything you need. You don’t have everything you want. If you expect to continue to have everything you need you had better be willing to allow people to provide it for you, and you better be able to pay for it. You will never have everything you want. But if you expect to have ANYTHING you want, you better be ready to allow it to be provided for your consumption.
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