David from Missouri - No Amnesty
Dear Global Community,
I recently received an e-mail inviting me to write a letter addressed to the United States telling the world how I feel about any and all topics relating to the United States which would be posted at a site called Blog to America. I took a little time checking out the site and found it very interesting. So, here we go.
I’ve had my own blog site, A Republic, if you can keep it since February of 2005. I’ve posted many messages there about our broken immigration policy and our wide open borders. I’ve written a countless number of letters to my elected officials urging them to get to work on the problem. I’ve let them know that I will remember them the next time I see their name on a ballot if they don’t do what most United States citizens feel is the right thing to do.
The best thing they can come up with is an amnesty deal for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens that are in the country now and a guest worker program for the ones that want to come in and work for low wages until their visa expires. They will go home, apply for another visa and return again. Big business will love it. They will be able to keep their labor cost down without the expense of moving the factory over seas. This will make it difficult for United States citizens to find jobs that pay a livable wage.
Our elected officials and the main stream media tell us it would be next to impossible to round up all of the illegal aliens that are in the country and send them home. I don’t feel a massive round up is needed. Let ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) continue their raids on factories. Increase the fine for hiring illegal aliens to about $10,000 per illegal alien. Soon they won’t be able to find work. Fine landlords and realtors that provide them with housing, not having a roof over their head should be reason enough to leave the country on their own. Some of them will be pulled over for traffic violations or be involved in domestic disputes. Get rid of the catch and release policy that is now in place and replace it with a catch and deport policy.
Today I heard that one of my United States Senators, Kit Bond is planning on supporting the latest amnesty bill. All I can say is, Kit I hope you have another job lined out because I will do all I can do to stop you from being re-elected.
If I sound like a bigot or racist I’m sorry you feel that way. I don’t feel that I am. I’m not opposed to immigration. I’m opposed to someone breaking our law by entering the country illegally. If your thinking of immigrating to the United States I just want you to jump through all of the required hoops to become a citizen. Then I will welcome you as a citizen and a friend. After all this country is mostly made of immigrants. Each of them had something special to offer, that’s what makes this country great.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
About the Author:
Name: David Schantz
Age: 56
Country: United States
City: Saint Joseph
State: Missouri
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Pollution Control Plant Operator
Experience With US: Currently Live in the United States
Website: http://arepublic.blogspot.com/
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Published on Saturday, July 7, 2007 at 12:48 PM.
I recently received an e-mail inviting me to write a letter addressed to the United States telling the world how I feel about any and all topics relating to the United States which would be posted at a site called Blog to America. I took a little time checking out the site and found it very interesting. So, here we go.
I’ve had my own blog site, A Republic, if you can keep it since February of 2005. I’ve posted many messages there about our broken immigration policy and our wide open borders. I’ve written a countless number of letters to my elected officials urging them to get to work on the problem. I’ve let them know that I will remember them the next time I see their name on a ballot if they don’t do what most United States citizens feel is the right thing to do.
The best thing they can come up with is an amnesty deal for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens that are in the country now and a guest worker program for the ones that want to come in and work for low wages until their visa expires. They will go home, apply for another visa and return again. Big business will love it. They will be able to keep their labor cost down without the expense of moving the factory over seas. This will make it difficult for United States citizens to find jobs that pay a livable wage.
Our elected officials and the main stream media tell us it would be next to impossible to round up all of the illegal aliens that are in the country and send them home. I don’t feel a massive round up is needed. Let ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) continue their raids on factories. Increase the fine for hiring illegal aliens to about $10,000 per illegal alien. Soon they won’t be able to find work. Fine landlords and realtors that provide them with housing, not having a roof over their head should be reason enough to leave the country on their own. Some of them will be pulled over for traffic violations or be involved in domestic disputes. Get rid of the catch and release policy that is now in place and replace it with a catch and deport policy.
Today I heard that one of my United States Senators, Kit Bond is planning on supporting the latest amnesty bill. All I can say is, Kit I hope you have another job lined out because I will do all I can do to stop you from being re-elected.
If I sound like a bigot or racist I’m sorry you feel that way. I don’t feel that I am. I’m not opposed to immigration. I’m opposed to someone breaking our law by entering the country illegally. If your thinking of immigrating to the United States I just want you to jump through all of the required hoops to become a citizen. Then I will welcome you as a citizen and a friend. After all this country is mostly made of immigrants. Each of them had something special to offer, that’s what makes this country great.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
About the Author:
Name: David Schantz
Age: 56
Country: United States
City: Saint Joseph
State: Missouri
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Pollution Control Plant Operator
Experience With US: Currently Live in the United States
Website: http://arepublic.blogspot.com/
Labels: 50's, immigration, male, medium income, missouri, north america, technical
LaRoacha from US - General Taste for America
Dear Global Community,
I'm posting as a middle aged American. I'm 45 years old and have had the experience of being in a US Marine in my youth and I am now just a simple construction worker. I've been all over the world and I've seen the attitudes of a lot of different cultures and nationalities. In my travels, I noticed that most French people I met had no use for Americans even though we bailed them out of a couple of wars....no biggie....we're used to being crapped on. The surprise I had was that most of the English I met overseas pretty much hated Americans as well. I've never been to England, but I ran into some in Asia and most I ran into were really anti- American, and this was in the cold war Reagan day's....not the "Bush is a dolt" day's..........My heritage is English and I really want to like people from the UK, but I have to admit that I kicked the shit outta one Brit who just twisted me the wrong way in Thailand. I went to Australia and even though there was a anti-nuclear welcoming party to our arrival, most Aussies really seemed to like having us around. I was in Italy, and I gotta say....they were nice and seemed to love us to the extreme. Most liberal people tend to think that everything America does is tied to some grand scheme to somehow mess over some weaker nation, and if that so,sorry. Most citizens of the US just want to freaking get along, and we don't perceive our leaders as evil people. I think you guy's are just seeing things from a standpoint that you are somehow not the alpha dog, which is really sad actually. Even if your country was in that position, you, as an individual really don't have any more power, it just that you perceive that your standing would be improved as a member of a stronger nation. Really, it's pretty sad...
About the Author:
Name: LaRoacha
Age: 45
Country: US
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Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:05 AM.
I'm posting as a middle aged American. I'm 45 years old and have had the experience of being in a US Marine in my youth and I am now just a simple construction worker. I've been all over the world and I've seen the attitudes of a lot of different cultures and nationalities. In my travels, I noticed that most French people I met had no use for Americans even though we bailed them out of a couple of wars....no biggie....we're used to being crapped on. The surprise I had was that most of the English I met overseas pretty much hated Americans as well. I've never been to England, but I ran into some in Asia and most I ran into were really anti- American, and this was in the cold war Reagan day's....not the "Bush is a dolt" day's..........My heritage is English and I really want to like people from the UK, but I have to admit that I kicked the shit outta one Brit who just twisted me the wrong way in Thailand. I went to Australia and even though there was a anti-nuclear welcoming party to our arrival, most Aussies really seemed to like having us around. I was in Italy, and I gotta say....they were nice and seemed to love us to the extreme. Most liberal people tend to think that everything America does is tied to some grand scheme to somehow mess over some weaker nation, and if that so,sorry. Most citizens of the US just want to freaking get along, and we don't perceive our leaders as evil people. I think you guy's are just seeing things from a standpoint that you are somehow not the alpha dog, which is really sad actually. Even if your country was in that position, you, as an individual really don't have any more power, it just that you perceive that your standing would be improved as a member of a stronger nation. Really, it's pretty sad...
About the Author:
Name: LaRoacha
Age: 45
Country: US
Labels: 40's, americans, anti-americanism, foreign policy, north america
Anja from America
Dear Global Community,
I have your answers : why Americans do nothing about their government:
The reasons why Americans are not doing anything is because they are complacent. They need a real tragedy to directly create change in their lives. They need to be physically hurt or their families before any action will be taken.
To be in-convenienced for a long period of time.
Things first need to become inconvenient, Americans thrive on convenience. If for a longer period of time their personal lives, daily commute to work, gas prices, prices of beef go up and become problematic then they will start being inquisitive and seek guidance.
Until then Americans will do nothing. There is no real risk for them, their lives won't change dramatically, the corporations protect their gas prices making sure that they remain complacent about global warming by making their beloved SUV's still affordable enough to drive around in. SUV's make Americans feel big protected and important and powerful. Also buying American trucks makes them feel patriotic.
Also as long as the oil and corn industry in the US remains strong so will factory farming remain strong and global warming will become worse. Factory farming is subsidized by corn, corn in return is subsidized by the government which in turn is run by the oil corporations of the world.
As long as beef and meat products full of hormones are cheap, Americans have nothing to complain about, and you bet the US government will make sure that their complacent citizens will not know or hear or really care about what is going on in the rest of the world as long as:
Gas prices don't go up too high, beef and meat remains cheap, Walmart remains cheap (Americans don't care that stuff is made in china) as long that it remains affordable and convenient.
Also young people just want to go about their lives, if you want to make Americans care you have to re-instate a draft (not going to happen because the US does not want people to wake up).
That is why nothing is ever going to change this government, because it will make sure that the people of the US can keep living their convenient lives without much change.
People do care but it takes time and effort something most people don't want to invest their spare time into and until their lives are totally impacted and given a detour they will not make an effort, it has to impact them directly.
Generally people who have family members who die of strange diseases eventually set up charities or start creating organizations to help others suffering from what their loved one died from, the same goes for people who start animal shelters and rehab facilities for drug addicts, in one way or another they were personally affected.
We Americans do care but your life is not our life, yes some of us have relatives over there in the military, but they are only over there because they hope to come back alive and get $40,000 in US government grants to maybe be able to go to college and forget about their wasted time in Iraq or where ever they are sent to. Most of the men/woman in the military are just 18, are too lazy to really get a decent job, going to the military forces them to just follow orders and not be in control of their lives, it's again finding a convenient escape to the harder life of writing resumes back home to work at McDonald's or Pizza Hut.
By joining they feel they are doing something patriotic and that they won't be made fun of by their friends and family, because if they do join; their families and friends can't really make fun of them because then they in turn would be unpatriotic. So it's a temporary escape for most of them, it's not serious for them it's a short stop in life for them being in a foreign place. As long as they have a base nearby that are ok.
WE care but we're too lazy to do anything about it, except better our own lives, like the rest of the people in the world.
About the Author
Name: Anja
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Income: High
Occupation: Graduate
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Published on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 9:49 PM.
I have your answers : why Americans do nothing about their government:
The reasons why Americans are not doing anything is because they are complacent. They need a real tragedy to directly create change in their lives. They need to be physically hurt or their families before any action will be taken.
To be in-convenienced for a long period of time.
Things first need to become inconvenient, Americans thrive on convenience. If for a longer period of time their personal lives, daily commute to work, gas prices, prices of beef go up and become problematic then they will start being inquisitive and seek guidance.
Until then Americans will do nothing. There is no real risk for them, their lives won't change dramatically, the corporations protect their gas prices making sure that they remain complacent about global warming by making their beloved SUV's still affordable enough to drive around in. SUV's make Americans feel big protected and important and powerful. Also buying American trucks makes them feel patriotic.
Also as long as the oil and corn industry in the US remains strong so will factory farming remain strong and global warming will become worse. Factory farming is subsidized by corn, corn in return is subsidized by the government which in turn is run by the oil corporations of the world.
As long as beef and meat products full of hormones are cheap, Americans have nothing to complain about, and you bet the US government will make sure that their complacent citizens will not know or hear or really care about what is going on in the rest of the world as long as:
Gas prices don't go up too high, beef and meat remains cheap, Walmart remains cheap (Americans don't care that stuff is made in china) as long that it remains affordable and convenient.
Also young people just want to go about their lives, if you want to make Americans care you have to re-instate a draft (not going to happen because the US does not want people to wake up).
That is why nothing is ever going to change this government, because it will make sure that the people of the US can keep living their convenient lives without much change.
People do care but it takes time and effort something most people don't want to invest their spare time into and until their lives are totally impacted and given a detour they will not make an effort, it has to impact them directly.
Generally people who have family members who die of strange diseases eventually set up charities or start creating organizations to help others suffering from what their loved one died from, the same goes for people who start animal shelters and rehab facilities for drug addicts, in one way or another they were personally affected.
We Americans do care but your life is not our life, yes some of us have relatives over there in the military, but they are only over there because they hope to come back alive and get $40,000 in US government grants to maybe be able to go to college and forget about their wasted time in Iraq or where ever they are sent to. Most of the men/woman in the military are just 18, are too lazy to really get a decent job, going to the military forces them to just follow orders and not be in control of their lives, it's again finding a convenient escape to the harder life of writing resumes back home to work at McDonald's or Pizza Hut.
By joining they feel they are doing something patriotic and that they won't be made fun of by their friends and family, because if they do join; their families and friends can't really make fun of them because then they in turn would be unpatriotic. So it's a temporary escape for most of them, it's not serious for them it's a short stop in life for them being in a foreign place. As long as they have a base nearby that are ok.
WE care but we're too lazy to do anything about it, except better our own lives, like the rest of the people in the world.
About the Author
Name: Anja
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Income: High
Occupation: Graduate
Labels: 30's, americans, corporations, domestic policy, environment, female, global warming, high income, north america
