Comments on: Part 2: A generous guest worker program with the emphasis on “guest”. http://www.differentslants.com/2007/05/26/part-2-a-generous-guest-worker-program-with-the-emphasis-on-%e2%80%9cguest%e2%80%9d/ Seeing the World from a New Angle Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:21:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Don Larson http://www.differentslants.com/2007/05/26/part-2-a-generous-guest-worker-program-with-the-emphasis-on-%e2%80%9cguest%e2%80%9d/#comment-523 Don Larson Sat, 26 May 2007 20:15:03 +0000 http://www.differentslants.com/?p=16#comment-523 Spitting after mentioning a rival's name? I have to watch where I step then. :-) You know what's behind this whole immigration mess? The problem of greed. We can pass all kinds of laws, but nobody will enforce them. I personally don't cut my grass. I pay a Vietnamese man who hires Mexicans to do the actual work. They do a reasonably good job for $36.00 a month. I would have to pay that much just in gasoline to run a lawnmower nowadays. ;-) I often stop and talk to the Mexican workers I see all over the place here in San Diego. Everyone of them is polite and nice. But try to talk to one of these crazy rich people with the expensive gas-guzzling SUV's and they act as if I am from Mars. I guess I need a formal invitation from them before I can speak to their high and mightiness. Yeah, the issue is greed. Dr. King had it right back in the 1960's; it isn't race that the problem, it's the greed. Well, at least we are wisely spending time talking about a problem here at home and not another region's political problems (like the Middle East) that are none of our business. Spit, spit, spit... Don Spitting after mentioning a rival’s name? I have to watch where I step then. :-)
You know what’s behind this whole immigration mess? The problem of greed.

We can pass all kinds of laws, but nobody will enforce them.

I personally don’t cut my grass. I pay a Vietnamese man who hires Mexicans to do the actual work. They do a reasonably good job for $36.00 a month. I would have to pay that much just in gasoline to run a lawnmower nowadays. ;-)
I often stop and talk to the Mexican workers I see all over the place here in San Diego. Everyone of them is polite and nice.

But try to talk to one of these crazy rich people with the expensive gas-guzzling SUV’s and they act as if I am from Mars. I guess I need a formal invitation from them before I can speak to their high and mightiness.

Yeah, the issue is greed. Dr. King had it right back in the 1960’s; it isn’t race that the problem, it’s the greed.

Well, at least we are wisely spending time talking about a problem here at home and not another region’s political problems (like the Middle East) that are none of our business. Spit, spit, spit…

Don

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