Rile a Veteran
In this debate on illegal immigration – why we are debating is beyond me, because criminals are criminals – we Americans keep getting called lazy and unwilling to work manual-labor jobs.
I believe there are millions of Americans who would strongly protest that. Among them are the approximately 130,000 Americans currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, trudging the terrain in full-body armor and combat loads, and at least triple number that who have pulled tours. Body armor alone is 50 pounds, 120 rounds of ammo is about 20 pounds, an M-16 is 7 pounds, and MRE and other gear adds up to 15 to 25 more pounds. Now go about for a day or more with all that. Oh, and let’s not forget, people are trying to kill you the entire time.
How many Mexican or Central or South American military personnel are in these areas? ZERO.
Mexicans are so willing to do the jobs that no one else “wants” to do? Well, there is genocide in Darfur that no one in the world wants to dirty their hands with. Is Mexico sending peacekeepers? NOPE. Somalia is still a hell hole, Mexico, ya’ll wanna head over there and help out?
I’ve been to Korea. I didn’t see any Mexican troops over there helping guard the DMZ. Maybe Vietnam could have been different if 12 million illegals had helped out instead of only thinking of themselves. It would be a great help if Mexico and all points south would help in the War on Terror.
World War II should have been called “World War II Minus Mexico.” The only thing the Mexicans did was not take Hitler up on the plan to invade the United States. Later, South America helped out by taking in all the Nazis on the run. Good work there, guys.
So, I guess the people south of us are really brave, marching in our streets, demanding rights and amnesty, but they sure are cowards when it comes to making any changes in their own corrupt countries or helping out in the world stage of events. Is it any wonder the chihuahua is the preferred dog? All bark and no bite.
Are any countries in this hemisphere besides Canada doing anything to help out the rest of the world? Is there a single thing coming from down south that we actually need?
Several countries to our immediate south are going down the gutter. Is anyone down there doing anything to fix it? Heck no. They are bailing out like rats, and at the same time re-creating the same failed environments here.
America has been so helpful in bailing out these corrupt governments for so long, they now expect it – just as our welfare people do here. They don’t want to earn it, but have the mentality that we “owe” if to them. America is nothing more than a welfare state to the world now. These other countries are all grown up; it’s time to let them fail or succeed without us.
Let’s fix ourselves, starting with voting out all these rich boy glad-handers and getting some people who can actually solve a problem or two.
Ask anyone in Polk County who’s lost his job in construction to corrupt contractors who want to cut costs by using illegal workers, if we need illegals. If there were no illegals, people could make a decent wage. My stepfather was a block mason making $24 an hour in the early 1990s. Now, no one gets more than $10, yet the cost of living has tripled.
These American workers have been robbed of a higher standard of living by the greedy back-room dealings of the rich and getting richer. Only the wealthy are using the illegals as nannies and house help, so of course they will be against deportation. God forbid they spend time with their own kids, or maybe do their own laundry.
Any fool who says we need illegals needs to take a look outside their bubble, because we don’t. To say we need them is the same as saying we need sweatshops and forced prostitution. Do we really need indentured servants? Is that what the liberals are saying? Are they saying we need not worry about ghettos in our towns? Well, as long as they are not in their towns, right? Some cities are passing resolutions to be safe havens for illegals. I cannot wait for the floods of people to hit them up.
Don’t tell me Americans are lazy. It looks to me like we are doing the jobs that no other country in the world wants to do. We send our money to save people, we send food, and most of all we send our children to defend and protect the same people who would gladly stab us in the back. We put up with being called racists while saving Muslims in Croatia from genocide and helping out the very illegals who plan to take parts of our nation. We are called warmongers for keeping the battles away from the American streets where the people who hate us live. We Americans protect a land that has not seen war on its own soil in more than 100 years. What other nation can say that?
Lazy? Well, I’ll take lazy over a coward any day.
