Writer's Block: Independence Day

[ishte]

[Error: unknown template qotd] Sorry, I'm not going to dignify this. WE are independent. Mexico? Right now, we are being overrun with illegal aliens from Mexico who should stay in their own country and work if they are so proud of their independence. If their economy is so bad, they should stop depending on ours by sending US dollars back home to Mexico and effect change in their own country to improve conditions. If they really don't like Mexico and want to be Americans let them follow the rules, and apply for entry like anyone from any other country, learn the language and become a part of our country, not claim that LA is a Mexican territory.

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[victorgreywolf.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree with you more. It's about time SOMEBODY said it. Rock on

Re: cool

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your comment. The thing is if you listen to the media, you are left with the impression that we're supposed to think we're in the minority with this view, that most people actually think that we should feel sorry for these people who break our laws to come here, break our laws to work here, and never even attempt to make that right or have any desire to actually integrate into our society.

However, I find that is not the case. I can't find a single person in my area who actually feels that way at all. Everyone I know agrees with me, and many have been detrimentally effected in some way by this situation, myself included.

Our leadership makes statements about these people doing 'jobs Americans don't want to do', and I also beg to differ. They are undercutting me in my businesses and the work is often substandard. I feel sorry for any client who trades in my service and has their home cleaned by an illegal who undercuts me. If something is not done satisfactorily, (or heaven forfend they have something damaged or destroyed), good luck to them trying to even communicate the problem with someone who refuses to even learn a rudimentary English.

[queenofhearts.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Well said.

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Thanks Jenn. Hurricane Ike had just driven this home. As you may have read, my Ash tree broke in half. The whole story of that is that for years and years and years, our cities and utilities all used Asplundh for our tree service. They are a long standing well known, and well respected company. I don't know if you have them out there so far west, but the name is one everyone recognizes here, as well as their bright orange trucks that are highly visible so we always see from far away a truck like that and know they're working on a tree.

Now rewind to this past spring. We got an announcement that the city and utilities would be going around trimming trees again. Not unusual, obviously they have to be maintained away from power lines etc. Only, the city had decided to use a different company. Well turns out this new company was some rinky dink operation as we see it, that probably undercut Asplundh by a great deal. (with reason, these people clearly didn't know what the hell they were doing to our trees... you should see what they did. Asplundh could be harsh with a tree to get it out and away from lines, but you did not see them cut out the entire center of a tree and leave a big widely spread V with no central support, one branch leaning way out over the road and the other way over someone's house. They would have topped out the whole tree in a more balanced way.) So these guys get started working... and for months we have these little white trucks here and there, and scores of Mexicans climbing around in our yards, scrambling around ON OUR ROOFS! (which is not something Asplundh would have been doing since they understand liability and insurance.) Almost none of them spoke a word of English. The work they were doing was substandard and they left debris all over the place. They hacked on my Ash tree, and left it standing when they had clearly been instructed that any diseased tree near a power line was to be taken down completely. Sadly, my Ash was diseased... well severely damaged with a large gash down one side. So obviously it should have been removed... but instead they only hacked on it some, weakened it further and now half of it is down in my yard (pending my good neighbors cutting it up for wood.)

What I'd like to see is the legal documentation of ANY of those guys to work in the US. I'd be willing to BET that a large number of them were not legally documented, that very VERY few of them were bonded, licensed or actually had ANY knowledge of Arboreal care... Especially in my area of the US.

I'm pretty hot about it.

[queenofhearts.livejournal.com]

OMG. O_O That's damned irritating!

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your comment. See my above comment about the tree 'service' we received earlier in the year which I can pretty directly tie to the tree lying in my yard now. (Oh sure, it might have fallen when Ike blew through Ohio if it had been healthy, but not likely.)

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

I couldn't have put it better!!!!!