Well according to the newspaper, every latino in Charlotte, NC is going to strike and call in sick on Monday, just to show us how much we need them. How childish.
Why is it awesome? No one has ever denied that we need migrant workers. Everyone understands that fact except that they dont understand that we understand, so they're striking because they're stupid. What do they expect to get? If I had immigrant workers, Id fire them as a matter of principle and hire new ones who didnt strike out of spite. **** that. You're here illegaly, making WAY better money than you could back home, LUCKY you dont get arrested and deported, and now you want to strike? Yeah, good ideaLordOpie said:Childish?
I dunno, if it's effective then awesome!
Childish is when you make $2mil/year, but strike cuz you want $3mil/year
Wow, let me guess:Dirtjumper999 said:Well according to the newspaper, every latino in Charlotte, NC is going to strike and call in sick on Monday, just to show us how much we need them. How childish.
sanjuro said:Wow, let me guess:
White male, 20-30, family income 70k+
Petitions are great if you are trying to get a park bench built in the suburbs. The menial laborers have almost no political power because they have almost no money.Dirtjumper999 said:no, italian. 18, and probably like -20k a year. and i apologize, i said childish for lack of a better word. the best word is probably going to be niave. thats not the best way to protest. the ultimate way is to get signatures of as many people as possible saying that immigrants are a valuable part of the community. If the majority of a city considers immigrants to be valuable to society, then who can argue with that. I for one would like to see more people doing that than going on senseless boycotts of working or buying consumer goods.
Or prove how much we dontDirtjumper999 said:Well according to the newspaper, every latino in Charlotte, NC is going to strike and call in sick on Monday, just to show us how much we need them. How childish.
Did I miss when Italians stopped being white?Dirtjumper999 said:no, italian.
You beat me to it! I do know someone who escaped flunking out of ucla by blaming his bad grades on "the pressure of growing up as an Italian-American."ohio said:Did I miss when Italians stopped being white?
You've changed your tune - last week you wanted to lynch the public transport employees who were striking.LordOpie said:Childish?
I dunno, if it's effective then awesome!
Childish is when you make $2mil/year, but strike cuz you want $3mil/year
Hang on, you need these guys to do these jobs; they may earn more than they would back home but they also have a higher cost of living and no benefits, yet they cannot become citizens.biggins said:uhhhh this whole immigration strike thing is really pathetic.
"hi, we are illegal immigrant workers that are paid not so well but still 3 times more than we would make back home. Not to mention we are covered by the government for health care in hospitals and american citizens are not. However we want more money for our illegal work so we are going to go on strike to prove to you how much you need us so you will pay us more."
only in america my friends can the illegal go on strike.
You know, many of the protestors are legal immigrants, 2nd and 3rd generation children.biggins said:uhhhh this whole immigration strike thing is really pathetic.
"hi, we are illegal immigrant workers that are paid not so well but still 3 times more than we would make back home. Not to mention we are covered by the government for health care in hospitals and american citizens are not. However we want more money for our illegal work so we are going to go on strike to prove to you how much you need us so you will pay us more."
only in america my friends can the illegal go on strike.
Did I?fluff said:You've changed your tune - last week you wanted to lynch the public transport employees who were striking.
Oh yeah, I remember; a strike that doesn't affect people too much, trouble is that tends to be less effective. You can't have it both ways, but it always seems different when it affects you personally. (That's a generalised 'you' btw, I'd use 'one' but then no-you would have clue what I meant...)LordOpie said:Did I?
If you were doing something other than trolling, you'd remember that I said they should strike, just not 100% of the work force... keep public transport lines open, just at a significantly reduced rate.
That way, the people who most need public transport can still have it and, ya know, get to work.
They could just stopped running public transport service to the sport and cultural events, that would've been just as effective.fluff said:Oh yeah, I remember; a strike that doesn't affect people too much, trouble is that tends to be less effective. You can't have it both ways, but it always seems different when it affects you personally.
Or bang all the neighborhood wives while the men are at work...N8 said:All I wanna know is, who the hell is going to mow my lawn????!
:mumble:
Tenchiro said:Or bang all the neighborhood wives while the men are at work...
How many were fired?LordOpie said:Or are you in favor of poor people getting fired for not being able to get to work?
You expect them to buy their own American flags??stinkyboy said:Whre the hell am I supposed to get an enchilada tonight prepared in a very unsanitary kitchen with sub grade meat(s)?!
If only they'd come back to work!
Phoenix:
Apparently in local news, many American flags were stolen from homes...
Well, you got the last part right anyways. Have you even read any of the other threads on this, or why your points are just completely absurd?Dirtjumper999 said:1. Set up stronger border patrols- if they want in they can come in the right way, through our naturalization process.
2. Every illegal alein found must either be deported, or sent through the big Naturalization process.
3. Any crime commited by any immigrant calls for immediate deportation without question. (In the past 5 months there have been more than 7 car accidents caused by drunk illegal immigrants, driving on the wrong side of the road. one of which claimed a dear friend of mine. And none were deported.)
4. Immigration laws should be regulated on the state of the economy. If we don't have enough jobs for our own citizens then why bring more in?
5. Keep a strict regulatory watch on all immigrants prior to their becoming U.S. citizens.
Most of you will probably think that all I am is a stupid 18 year old that knows nothing of politics, and you are right I don't. but i know what seems the most effective, and what isn't working.
maybe he's Sicilian...you know, moorish blood and all?ohio said:Did I miss when Italians stopped being white?
hey, my ancestor's were here before there was a United States, so technically I'm not an immigrant either.Transcend said:Unless you are a Native American, you or some member of your family was, at some point, an immigrant.
That's kind of over the top. Most other western industrialised nations have nothing like the illegal immigration of the US and you can still get cheap food and produce.dante said:hey, my ancestor's were here before there was a United States, so technically I'm not an immigrant either.
im·mi·grant
n.
1. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
if they came before there was a country, then they weren't immigrants!!!
But back on subject, DJ you might want to read up a little bit on the situation before you start ranting again. Imagine if all the services that the immigrants (legal or otherwise) did for $5/hour, unionized americans did for $28/hour (just like our autoworkers). Would you be willing to pay 5x as much for groceries? Double the amount you would currently pay for hotel rooms? Imagine trying to eat out in a restaurant, where all the food that they buy is 5x more expensive, and then the cooks in the back are making $28/hour as well. Then you have to pay the janitors to keep the place clean, and you'd be sitting down to a $100 hamburger.
Well, lets see:Silver said:Interestingly enough, a Big Mac in Canada is not more expensive than the US.
Dante, care to explain the chart here?
http://www.economist.com/markets/bigmac/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5389856
Well, Canada exports both beef and wheat, so I'm going to assume that is homegrown. The labor sure as hell isn't imported. The workers aren't making $28 an hour...why not? Do you have any idea how much of farming costs are labor compared to capital? I don't have numbers, but since you're talking out of your ass, I'll let you look them up instead of doing the work myself.dante said:Well, lets see:
1) how much of the food for that big mac is actually produced in Canada?
2) you do realize that how much it costs to produce something has zero to do with what you sell it for, only whether you should sell it at all, right? or did you sleep through that part of economics?