jusplay4fun wrote:jusplay4fun wrote:
Duk speaks of "highly motivated cheap labour
Duk said:
Yes? What of it? Do you deny it?
Do you have any idea what it means to sell every single fucking thing you own so you can pay a smuggler to get your over the border, leave your home with nothing but the clothes on your back and the contents of your pockets, leave behind all your friends and relatives, walk 2000 miles in the blazing heat, face the prospect of little or no food, little water, the ground for a bed and a rock for a pillow, the chance of being robbed, raped, or murdered by various criminal gangs and corrupt cops along the way, the strong chance of ending up in a jail or a forced-labour camp, the strong chance of never seeing any of your family again, and walk to a place you don't know in search of a new life and a fresh hope? And you think someone motivated to do all that has an end goal of sitting in a motel room drawing welfare? Seriously?
Get your head out of Rush Limbaugh's ass and open your eyes. In any community, the most earnestly hard-working people you will find are the recent immigrants. The ones leaning up against a post are the ones who are born there.
What are you talking ABOUT? You do realize that Rush Limbaugh is DEAD, right?
Yes, I'm well aware (and quite grateful) that Rush Scumbag is DEAD. (Is being DEAD in all-caps more permanent than just being dead in lower case?)
I'm also aware that you and all the other brain-washed right-wingers are still parroting his talking points, now and probably forever. Fifty years since he started poisoning America with his hatred and still the fountain of all right-wing thought. I haven't heard any one of you goose-steppers say anything, ever, that Rush didn't teach you to say.
"The immigrants are coming to steal our jobs! Waaaaaah! Waaaaahh! Wahhhhhhhhhh!" "The immigrants are coming to sponge off welfare! Waaaaaah! Waaaaahh! Wahhhhhhhhhh!" You can't even keep internal consistency between your lies. Are they coming to steal your jpbs, or are they coming to sponge off welfare? Which is it? If they're lazy and coming to sponge off welfare, how can they steal your job? Or can they steal your job and still collect welfare on the side? Do you collect welfare while you're doing your job? Is that legal?
jusplay4fun wrote:And Duk, you can stop with the ad hominem attacks.
Why would I? I'm an immigrant. When you're attacking immigrants, you're attacking me. Why would I refrain from returning the favour? You can dish it out but you can't take it? Go blow a fat goat.
You live in a country where every significant structure from the Verrazzano Narrows to the Golden Gate, was built by exploiting cheap immigrant labour, but still you're going to parrot Rush Scumbag's line that immigrants are just coming here to suck off the taxpayer's tit. The Central Pacific railroad was famously composed of something between 80 and 90% Chinese labour, paid shit wages for some of the most difficult and dangerous work imaginable. What is less well-known is that the Union Pacific, building out to meet the Central Pacific, did not have Chinese labour. Contrary to evidence, the Board of the Union Pacific believed that Chinese bodies were too frail to survive the harsh conditions of rail construction. Does that mean they hired local labour? Hell, no! That would have meant paying a decent wage! Instead, they imported poor sharecroppers from famine-prone Ireland, who like their Chinese counterparts on the other side of the Great Divide were desperate enough to sign up for brutal labour at subsistence wages.
I've told you often enough about the years when I was a truck driver in the agricultural sector. A Mexican crew could unload my truck (by hand) in 90 minutes. A local-born Canadian crew would accomplish the same task in six hours. The Mexicans would just put their heads down and
work. The equivalent Canadians would first need a piss break, and then a smoke break, and then some joshing-around time, and then a quick break to check their Twitter feed, etc., etc. Anytime I arrived at a place with no Mexicans, I knew I was in for a long day.
I have nothing but respect for our Mexican brethren. I know the reason I can go to the grocery store and buy a basket of tomatoes for $2.88 is that there is a hard-working Mexican in the fields, who hasn't seen his family in four months and just keeps his head down, working and working and dreaming of the day when he can make a better life for them. The blonde kid in the next row of plants is scratching his balls and checking his Instagram. If he was in charge, my basket of tomatoes would cost $23.50.
You have no fucking clue just how great is your debt to these people whom you hate.
And as the icing on the cake, you claim to be a Christian, but you harden your heart and want to send these people back to die. One common thread that runs through ALL major religions is the duty to give refuge to those fleeing from wars and famines and persecution, but you want to shut your heart and your hearth and send them back to die. And you want to act righteously offended when I respond with some angry words to your callowness and heartlessness? Go blow a fat goat.
Do you have any idea of what these people are fleeing from?
I watched a gangland execution in Nogales, once. They took the man in broad daylight, right in front of his wife and kids. Tied his ankles together, hitched him behind a pickup truck, dragged him down the street until the gravel ground his face off and opened his brain. In front of his kids. Just like in the cowboy movies, where they drag the guy behind his horse. Except this wasn't Hollywood, this was real. It's almost comical when it's a manikin in a movie. Not so comical in real life. One of those sights that is burned into my mind and no matter how much I pound my head on the desk I can't make it go away.
"He must have deserved it," you cry! Of course. Probably stole $5 from the wrong person. People take great risks when they have hungry children.
But good little Christian schoolteacher jp4f wants to send more people to that corner, because it's "Protection" for migrants, and he's sure they'll be safe there because his orangutan told him so. Such a great charitable man you are!
Let me tell you something else that's burned in my memory. Little village in Guatemala. Too small and insignificant to even have a name, but after much searching I found it on the map. We were there in '76. Some very hungry-looking people. We bought a little copper trinket at the general store for 50 cents. They almost pissed themselves in gratitude. Then the Mormon missionaries showed up in their clean white shirts, waving stacks of American dollars in the air. They wanted babies. $20 for 1, or $50 if you have a matched pair. They take them back to the U.S., sell them to childless rich assholes for adoption. They're listed as orphans, their parents 'deceased' or 'unknown'. Except they're not deceased, except maybe in spirit. The Mormons found a customer. Young couple, three children obviously not well-fed, the youngest a newborn. The father handed over the baby, the Mormons handed over $20. The mother fought like a she-lion, but her husband was too strong. He clamped his arms around her neck and held her back while the Mormons drove away with their prize.
She was still sobbing when we left the village an hour later. For all I know, she's sobbing still. I found the place, thanks to Google maps. I'll give you the GPS co-ordinates. 17.0092793,-89.3110616. Plug that into Google maps, you'll see the village. I can't get the co-ordinates any closer to the house, but you can see it. When you plug in those GPS co-ordinates, you'll find yourself on a little dirt road. The house is about 50 yards WSW of the place the GPS will take you. It's a little house, flat roof and green fascia. The weeds have grown up and almost cover the entrance. I imagine she wants the weeds to grow, to hide her shame from the world. Look at that house, you insensitive asshole. LOOK AT IT, before you dare to address me again.
As I said, I too am an immigrant to this country.
