A LIE THAT JUST WON"T DIE: JOBS THAT AMERICANS WON'T DO

Yesterday I heard THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES repeat a lie about illegal immigrants:"They'll do jobs that Americans just won't do."

THAT'S A LIE THAT KEEPS BEING REPEATED.

At the very least it's a lazy assumption that serves to keep an abundance of cheap labor around to tend rich white people's lawns, care for their children and clean their sheets.

Here's some verifiable proof that white anglo Americans WILL do the jobs that everybody ASSUMES they won't.

MY WHITE ANGLO SISTER, who has a Master's Degree in Fine Art cleans hotels rooms to keep her four children fed. Not too many jobs for fine art majors in Northern Lower Michigan. Now, if she had the educational and social support from her state to get a teaching degree, that would change dramatically. But alas, no extra funds. She'll be paying off her masters degree with "jobs that Americans just won't do" for a very long time, Mr. President.

MY WHITE ANGLO BROTHER picked strawberry's and cut sod in the summer as a teenager. Is there a shortage of American teenagers that we don't know about, Mr. President? Does an AMERICAN LAW have to be broken 12,000,000 times by AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN to get our food picked and our sod cut? I think not, sir.


As for myself, ANOTHER LAW-ABIDING WHITE ANGLO AMERICAN CITIZEN, I've been a ditch-digger, a landscaper, a lawn-sprinkler installer, part of a constructioin clean-up crew, and a general maintenance man. I've followed the rules and have broken no laws, Mr. President. And I've got very little to show for my hard-working fortitude, other than feeling like a sucker.

The Mexicans immigrants I see on a regular basis (assuming that SOME of them are here illegally, at least some of those who don't speak a lick of English) don't do jobs that Americans won't do, sir. They install carpeting, they work construction jobs and they do landscaping. ALL JOBS THAT AMERICANS WILL DO. I know, because I've done them.

Mr. President, stop lying to the American people and tell us why you and your friends really want illigal Mexican immigrants in this country: Because American Business Owners (from food-growers to Wal Mart) want cheap labor and they don't care if they have to break a few AMERICAN immigration laws to get it.

And THAT'S THE TRUTH, no matter what kind of political spin you want to put on it.

Riffing On The Times 3.28.06

As always, the headlines are taken directly from the NYT but the rest is entirely made-up.
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Bill to Broaden Immigration Law Gains in Senate - Bill to have his head pummeled by law-abiding, working-class Americans if he tries it.

French Youth at the Barricades, but a Revolution? It Can Wait - yeah, at least until someone fool tells them to eat cake.

Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, and Search Is On - millions of bored amateurs attempt to confuse what experts on the ground have known for years.

Shiite Leaders Suspend Talks Over Government - to pursue suspending Sunnis by their testicles.

Afghan Convert to Christianity Is Released - Muslim clerics declare open season - again.

At Crossroads, Israeli Voters Seem to Wait for a Signal - ...but proceed to accelerate and run over family of Palestinians walking home from work.

Moussaoui Now Ties Himself to 9/11 Plot - and JFK assasination, and MLK assasination, and takes credit for the plan that led to the murder of John Lennon.

Seattle Police and Partygoers Still Puzzle Over Attack - senseless violence, ironically, shakes senseless world.

2 Dismissed From Jury Deciding Case of Politician - you can't buy justice, but injustice always has a price.

Hang it up, Dems.

Dear Democrats,

Your complete and utter failure to support Russel Feingold and his motion to censure presidennt Bush proves you have no courage in your convictions. You're proven useless to working-class Americans and clueless, or worse, indifferent to our needs. If you're supposed to be public servants, you've failed miserably. Waiting for the Republicans to fail AGAIN is no strategy. My guess is they'll recover and you will have lost yet another election. You'd better have a card up your sleeve or this game is over for you - for good.

Signed,

A Lifelong Democrat turned Independent since 2000