Re: SSN entitlements, US (still): Population and longevity

From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:53:45 GMT

"Rob Duncan" <robduncan@gbronline.com> wrote in
news:fOCdnR1x5_uWCWXdRVn-vA@gbronline.com:

> Agreed, but your blind as a bat when it comes to the benefits of
> allowing Mexico-boy to work in the US. Go-on, find me a white
> American willing to hoe the fields for a living. Yeah, nice try, now
> tell me we dont need them again, I need a good laugh.

You haven't read my other posts or the links to mises website I have posted
about minimum wage, so let me update you to my current ideas on that, I
dont want to work in the field, I am willing to pay a mexico boy to do it,
IN MEXICO, not here, and import his cheaper goods for my money and let him
get richer in MEXICO, if he spoke my language and understood where I was
coming from, I would be willing to pay him here, but I think it is bad to
bring in people to work the fields who dont speak english and never will -
that creates cultural disparity that will fracture the country and weaken
us all. I see the fights in walmart and at the bars because of mis
communication. If they would train mexico boy, FORCE him to learn english
I would remove many of my reservations I have about him now, but they do
not, I see him in walmart, try to be his friend, talk to him, he doesnt
speak english - has no need to learn it, it complicates my life, I dont
want to start learning spanish for the benefit of having cheap labor, I
want one america, 1 language, not 2. I want to walk into a store and when
I crack a joke about ren and stimpy everyone gets it because they speak
english and understand american culture and history. Bringing in people
that dont understand and never will does not help this. Geeks do not
typically go into redneck bars with farm workers because when he makes a
joke about commander taco on slashdot they just do not GET IT, and when the
redneck makes a joke about fucking his cousin, the geek doesnt appreciate
it even though he may get it, different cultures, to a point they are OK, I
can hang out with geeks, my preference, I can hang out with rednecks and
have a good time, not my preference though, but I have found it HARD to
hang out with non americanized mexicans and not feel like I was about to
get a knife in my gut - my redneck friend did get a knife in his gut.

I don't like driving through thier communites, being in stores that cater
to them, I went to mexico last month and got that cold shoulder feeling all
over that country, i dont want it here in my country. 

-- 
Government policy in interest rates, and on finance generally, has been 
marked by vacillation, wishful thinking, electoral expediency of the most 
shameful type towards the end of last year, contortions and contradictions, 
all to accommodate the redneck economics of the National Country Party. 
(Harsard Aug.27 1981)