| Daily Insights of An Average American. Sit and listen to what I say. I speak for the people that believe enough is enough. | | by | This item has no ratings. |
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Created: 12:20am on 03-20-2007
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I am just your average American middle class citizen. I have five children and have worked hard to get where I am today. Years of working hard as a carpenter, and years of being self employed, I have worked my way up. Now, though, I find myself in a predicament. The last twelve years of my life has been taken away from me. I am losing my home, losing the year and a half it took my wife and I to build it. It is a six bedroom, four and a half bath home on nine acres in middle Tennessee. I have to say goodbye, and it hurts.
My job has been outsourced to the cheaper Latino workforce. Not just mine, but the jobs of thousands of people have been dramatically undercut by the primarily illegal workforce. They have come here by the millions and flooded the workplace with cheaper labor, that subsequently and substantially lowered the cost of labor in general. I have to change careers late in my life, and I will be cutting my earnings in half. I want solutions to this problem and I want it now. Too many have been where I am, and it is high time we stood up for ourselves and take a stand. Close my borders, Mr. President.
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| 5. Immigration Debate | ID #506651 |
| Posted: 5-7-2007 @ 1:23 am EDT |
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I would like to begin a formal debate on the topic of immigration. Recently I have been named a racist because I emphasized the importance of knowing exactly who is coming into and out of my country (U.S.). I suggested that illegal immigration is a bad thing, and that the people that move to a foreign country by choice should assimilate to the ways of that country instead of expecting the host country to provide them will welfare and benefits.
In this blog, I would like to keep responses to a maximum of 500 characters. Text should be civilized and factual, as I will be using in-text citations to support my statements, and all will be factual with statistics when applicable.
Thank you in advance for a professional debate, and please identify yourself in some way consistently.
Thanks,
Gary
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| 4. Update | ID #498669 |
| Posted: 3-31-2007 @ 10:58 am EDT |
| 3. Does Anybody Care? | ID #498625 |
| Posted: 3-31-2007 @ 1:01 am EDT |
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Does anybody really understand what is happening in our world today? With the government in a partisan war of sorts, immigration devouring the middle class, and wars on multiple fronts. It seems like nobody even cares. I wish I could reach out to the people of this country and appeal to their morals and ethics. We have to get a grip on this nation or there won't be a nation to grip.
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| 2. When you have it all. | ID #497631 |
| Posted: 3-26-2007 @ 1:30 am EDT |
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Sometimes I fail to realize that I am the luckiest man I know. Even when everything all around me is falling apart, anything is possible with the unbreakable chain of love inspired by the perfect wife. I have never been happier.
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| 1. A voice that carries | ID #496797 |
| Posted: 3-22-2007 @ 2:53 am EDT |
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If we do not react as a country, then we have wasted it all away.
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