Wednesday, April 5, 2006


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COLLATERAL DAMAGE
REDUX
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I didn't think much about the illegal alien thing, back then. I became friends with one of them, and always paid him twice as much as he used to ask for a job. He was a hard worker and people in town gave him steady work. He got married, rented a house, had a son, bought a truck, and used to display his Social Security card with genuine pride. He started to wear a cowboy hat and boots. He had become an American, and he loved it. But he had normal expenses now, and he slowly raised his prices so he'd be able to meet his bills.

He used to cross the street just to shake my hand and say "hello" whenever he saw me in town, and as those few years passed, he literally became taller and healthier.

I guess that the newly-arrived crowd of illegal aliens were envious of his success, even though he hired only them exclusively, whenever he had jobs large enough for perhaps a dozen of them. They started to undercut his already low fees by one-tenth. Until he could no longer pay for his house, his wife, his son and his truck.

He left town, and never came back.

This is what happens when any working system is being subverted by those who don't give a damn.

When being illegal is no longer a crime, a society gets lost in its own contradictions. Last week, I watched as an American man was handcuffed and brought to jail for having a little pipe filled with weed, in his car, while across the street, more than 2 dozen illegal aliens waited for someone to hire them.

This matter is rotting out the system from within.

If it does not get fixed, it will destroy us all.

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