How Long Before Riots Start In This Country?
by James Glaser
France is having its sixth night of riots, and it is reported that they are caused by immigrant youth from North Africa, and were touched off with the deaths of two young teenagers, who were being chased by Police. In many parts of our country we are starting to face a similar problem, actually a much larger problem. We have in this country an estimated 10 to 12 million illegal aliens, almost all of whom are Hispanic. George Bush calls them "undocumented workers." The people flowing into our country by the thousands every night are workers and they are good workers, who will work for whatever wage they are offered. George Bush keeps claiming that these people are here to work the jobs that Americans don't want, but that is no longer true. Mexican workers were at one time our farm laborers, but today they might just as well be our carpenter, plumber, mechanic, or car salesman. These people are no longer just out in the fields working and moving around the country following the crops. No, today they are setting down roots, and even if they are illegal, they know that their children born here are American citizens. Soon the professional fields will start filling with Hispanics. Last year, the Hispanics population passed up the number of Blacks here to become the largest minority group. If you look at America's public schools and start counting the millions of dropouts, you will have some idea of why riots will be coming to our land. At one time in this country, if you had a strong back and a little bit of smarts, you could get a job in the manufacturing sector or the building trades. Today the plant jobs have gone overseas, and the building trades are filling up with cheap wage workers from south of the border. Right now that works, because we are in the middle of a huge building boom, but when those building trade jobs slow down, we will have a lot of white and black Americans looking at foreign tongued workers, who are still on the payroll, because they will work on the cheap. Welfare is no longer what it was and I believe people will fight for their jobs. Right now, everyone who wants to can work, but that won't last forever and when it ends, American workers will be saying that they want these illegal workers out of here. By that time it will be too late. The workers from south of the border will have a household filled with young American citizens. They will own their homes, have paid into Social Security for years, and feel that they are a part of our country. Many sons and daughters of illegal workers are serving in our Armed Forces, and many of them have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, if you look down the road at the American labor force, you can see problems ahead. Every night thousands more are pouring in to take jobs here, and every night we let them in wages go down a little bit. Right now all of this is great for the rich and those who have invested in American Corporations, as low wages make for higher profits. Every day we wait to close or borders, means a bigger problem for our children and grandchildren. Of course every day George Bush is strapping down our children and grandchildren with more and more debt, so what does it really matter if he takes us into the Third World faster, by filling our country with cheap labor. George's family and George's friends will have enough money to live well. Every South American country has its aristocracy, as does Mexico. Those people live very well and they hold their people down with a heavy hand. George Bush is giving Washington that heavy hand with laws like the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. A.C. T... George is setting up prisons where people can be tortured. George has arrested American citizens, held them in prison without any due process, without a chance for a speedy trial, heck without even a chance to see a lawyer. He is now trying to get rid of the Posse Comitatus Law, so that Washington can use our military to quell civil unrest. If you listen to Country Western music, you will understand that the American worker will work six days a week to feed his family, he or she will go to church on Sunday, and Oh yes, he will party away on Saturday night. Give him a job, a house, and maybe an old pickup truck and he will cause little trouble, but take that job away from him and the house and transportation... well then all hell will break loose and it won't matter how much George thought he got the power in Washington prepared. |
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