The Daily Word 5.18.10: Google Is Watching You, God’s Oil Spill, Red Light Cameras Off

Napolitano hasn't read the bill? She's from AZ BTW. Eric Holder (temporary holder) hasn't read the bill. He admitted it and I saw the video. They are outraged at AZ and against the bill. It's heavy reading at a full ten pages long (10), so maybe it is understandable that a politician could opt out and moisten his pinky, place it in the air and figure out the direction of the public opinion.

An alert and savvy Alibi reader figured out how to post it right on this site two weeks ago and I read it, and I'm sure numerous others have also, including one of your staff members who clipped the most controversial paragraph and displayed it on your print edition. Good for your reader who posted it!! This makes us more credible to have an opinion than two, or more, senior members of this cabinet.

I've already ranted here on this blog about illegal immigration but I'll add a brief story that occurred during my week. I employ a subcontractor who is Hispanic. He always hires other Hispanics, usually men he grew up with or their family members. Fair enough. He has to live with these guys six days a week doing heavy lifting and driving all over the State, hours at a time.

If you want to hear a negative, Tea-Party type of reaction, just get these men talking. These men and their young families are in direct competition for jobs with the illegals. Unfortunately, there are employers who are greedy and will pay illegals under the counter cash; no taxes, no workmans comp, social security or fed with-holding, no benefits like health insurance or retirement plans and they have the option if they are pre-disposed, to treat them like non-humans with no dignity; something that the men my subcontractor employs would never stand for, yet they are directly in competition on a not-level playing field with these illegals.

I personally treat the men like my own sons when in the store and I treat them well at Christmas with a bonus because they are part of any success the store has and they are essentially my business partners. The illegals would wire their cash to Mexico and our local economy would never feel the fruits of the heavy labor my subcontractor does with his men.

My Hispanic business partners frequently employ a Spanish word for "wetback" which I can't spell, when they see other workers at the dock, who are clearly illegal. It's a pejorative, for sure, the way it is spit out angrily. Tight-ass liberals who have never really worked can sit around being offended amidst their self-provoked angst and their Ivy League law degrees at Arizona's bill but you won't see any angst around the truck against this bill.

Regards

Mike