Thursday, August 04, 2005
Ethnic Cleansing in Long Island
Ridiculous.
The state of New York - every state, for that matter - needs to make Economics a required course for high school graduation. Illegal (and legal) Mexican immigrants are not in this country stealing jobs away from American citizens. They are here filling a need. Why? Because most Americans are not willing to perform difficult labor for any amount of pay. How many of us want to change someone's jizzed-up hotel room bedsheets for minimum wage? How many of us want to do landscaping all day in the hot sun, hauling 50-lb. bags of fertilizer and mulch, for under $10 an hour? How many of us would take a job as someone's maid? Answer: Much, much fewer than are needed to perform these jobs. Mexicans are "stealing" jobs that no one wants.
As for Mexicans themselves - HELLO! - neither better nor worse than the rest of us.
"There's a lack of assimilation," she said of the workers. "You don't leave garbage out, you don't whistle at neighbors. They need to understand that, but by keeping them marginalized, they don't learn that."
Ha ha ha...has this woman ever been to a gas station after 9 PM on a Friday night?
A spokeswoman for the Town of Brookhaven estimated there are 150 houses, each with dozens of suspected illegal workers, in Farmingville, though some landlords have pre-emptively evicted some tenants for fear of trouble with the law.
So what? Sounds like a lot of fraternity and sorority houses I've been in.
"I think they are doing a terrific job," said Terry Sherwood, who complained that residents in the jammed houses often drink late into the night and urinate and defecate on lawns and backyards. "I don't care who they are, what color they are. I don't care where they come from. Why should people have to live this way?"
Again...sounds like a lot of fraternity and sorority houses I've been in.
*Gasp*...here's some common sense on the subject from the senior advisor to the Republican National Committee.
The state of New York - every state, for that matter - needs to make Economics a required course for high school graduation. Illegal (and legal) Mexican immigrants are not in this country stealing jobs away from American citizens. They are here filling a need. Why? Because most Americans are not willing to perform difficult labor for any amount of pay. How many of us want to change someone's jizzed-up hotel room bedsheets for minimum wage? How many of us want to do landscaping all day in the hot sun, hauling 50-lb. bags of fertilizer and mulch, for under $10 an hour? How many of us would take a job as someone's maid? Answer: Much, much fewer than are needed to perform these jobs. Mexicans are "stealing" jobs that no one wants.
As for Mexicans themselves - HELLO! - neither better nor worse than the rest of us.
"There's a lack of assimilation," she said of the workers. "You don't leave garbage out, you don't whistle at neighbors. They need to understand that, but by keeping them marginalized, they don't learn that."
Ha ha ha...has this woman ever been to a gas station after 9 PM on a Friday night?
A spokeswoman for the Town of Brookhaven estimated there are 150 houses, each with dozens of suspected illegal workers, in Farmingville, though some landlords have pre-emptively evicted some tenants for fear of trouble with the law.
So what? Sounds like a lot of fraternity and sorority houses I've been in.
"I think they are doing a terrific job," said Terry Sherwood, who complained that residents in the jammed houses often drink late into the night and urinate and defecate on lawns and backyards. "I don't care who they are, what color they are. I don't care where they come from. Why should people have to live this way?"
Again...sounds like a lot of fraternity and sorority houses I've been in.
*Gasp*...here's some common sense on the subject from the senior advisor to the Republican National Committee.
