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Article #2862Re: "Mexican Christmas" proves we can get along without wetbacks
From: pohaku.kane
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:58
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:58
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arminius wrote: > <editor@netpath.net> wrote in message > news:1136777996.930740.153430@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > It's the central premise of those arguing for "amnesty" for illegal > > aliens or a "guestworker" plan - that the American economy, or at least > > several major nonagricultural industries among the loudest whining for > > "guestworkers" or amnesty plans, just couldn't survive without > > wetbacks. But the reality is demonstrated - yearly, as it now is being > > - by "Mexican Christmas," a protracted holiday that a large share of > > illegals leave America to go home to celebrate with their families back > > in Mexico! > > If the hotel industry can get along without illegal Mexicans during > > "Mexican Christmas" for several weeks yearly, why can't it get along > > without them every other week of the year? If the poultry-processing > > and meatpacking plants can get along without the illegals during > > "Mexican Christmas" for several weeks yearly, why couldn't they get > > along without Mexicans the rest of the year? If the construction > > industry can get along without illegal Mexicans during "Mexican > > Christmas" several weeks each year, why can't it get along without them > > the rest of the year? It is time to tell the truth! Because they plan for it, and Mexicans aren't the only low wage workers. > > =================================================================== > > No $4 to park! No $6 admission! http://www.INTERNET-GUN-SHOW.com > > In WW2 with millions of men overseas and women working in the defense > industry, all the crops were harvested and the surplus shipped overseas. Wanna guess who was doing that harvesting? I recall going to school with a couple of kids whose parents ran one of the largest truck farming businesses in the area during WWII. Asau was their name. Funny name that. Want to guess what country it comes from? In addition "all the crops" were not enough. Were did you get the idea there was any surplus to ship overseas? Possibly in low human labor crops, like the cereal grains, and range and pasture raised lifestock, but certainly not in orchard and bush crops that requied hand picking in those days. > Removal of all illegal aliens would spawn an economic and cultural revival > of a magnitude heretofore not seen in America. R R R ...just how would that happen? Watch your prices at wholesale and retail skyrocket dummy boy. Do you know how old the term "Wetbacks" IS? 1929 was the first recorded use of the term. Which would indicate how long the economy has relied upon them? And they were, of course, coming in to work in the fields during WWII as well. "WETBACK Etymology The word "wetback" is a relatively new disparaging term for "an illegal Mexican immigrant or worker who crosses the Rio Grande into the United States, sometimes swimming to get across" (Hendrickson, 1997). There is some debate as to when the word was first recorded. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word was in 1929 when Foreign Affairs used it to refer to a peon that walks or swims across and is welcomed by countrymen as a 'wetback'. ... " Bracero's have been an important element in farm economy for about 80-90 years in this country, that I know of. My uncles hired many to work their ranches and farms in the Southwest. My uncles couldn't GET white labor, let alone pay for them if they were there and willing. A seasonal large workforce has always been essential to this county's wealth and prosperity and to keeping YOUR commodity prices down. http://tinyurl.com/cdetf Your silly racist nonsense is duly noted for the lies and playing on other's lack of knowledge that it is. People do not like to be fooled, and many a former on the fence or even bigoted person has switched sides when they discovered lying twits such as you have conned them. Racist exclusionist policies in Europe historically have their examples to teach us. One was called WWl and the other WWll. Isolating a country will inevitably lead to economic breakdown. What do you think the Depression was about, child? After WWl their was a return to the same old exclusionist protectionist BS by industry and business. And what happened next, pray tell? Everyone ostrasized Germany. It became isolated. It lived with it to the point of economic collapse. This planet and it's people are an organism. If you slow the movement and activity you risk destroying it. It's quite possible there is a low set point for inactivity, that if we drop that far there is no coming back. You prepared to take that risk? You and fools like you? > Hank Lift that tough for yah, eh little boy? Kane
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