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2008-01-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tu3031 2008-01-23 09:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Black Americans are hit the hardest.

No clue what the stats are but would not be surprised if this is true. If you can employ someone for less money, no benefits and with no legal repercussions in the event of a contract dispute, accident or injury why hire the American who might be prepared to work for low wages but who - thanks to minimum wage and employment legislation - cannot possibly compete? The answer is not to do away with protections for low paid workers; it is to end the devil's bargain between people like Mitt Romney looking for cheap yard work and people like Nancy Pelosi looking to take a moral high ground that costs her nothing.

Enforce the law. Enforce the border. End the problem.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-23 10:08|| 2008-01-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 People who will never let us forget that their ancestors were brought here in chains as slaves, pissing and moaning about people who risk their lives to come here. Quite ironic I must say.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-23 11:37|| 2008-01-23 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3  people like Mitt Romney looking for cheap yard work 

Let me get this straight. Ole Mitt, the multi-millionaire Republican candidate for president in 2008, who has consistently campaigned on more vigorous enforcement in the workplace, thought he would save a couple of coins by hiring illegal aliens to do his yard work. What the hellrightIm sure he thought he could savemmmmaybe a couple of Gs a year. Heyit all ads up.
Yeahhhhhhh Riiiiiight. Dude, a contractor subs out to another contractor that often subs to another. And the original contractor doesn't bother to check their status down the line. The contractor can even legally tell the homeowner his employees are of legal status. It happens all the time. Thats the problem.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-01-23 13:13|| 2008-01-23 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Somewhat related... In my experience, if you get the average Asian-American (especially Korean-Americans) in a discussion about African-Americans, stand back. You'll end up covered in enraged spittle. There seems to be no love lost there.

Posted by Woodrow Spusoting1975 2008-01-23 13:55|| 2008-01-23 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 tu3031

- thanks for the catch; the city-journal doesn't have many issues each year I think, but they frequently hit on trends that no one else does

as they document, the Hispanic-Black split has been ongoing for many years without it being much noticed

Posted by mhw 2008-01-23 16:32|| 2008-01-23 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if the "Black Community" is smart enough to NOT get sucked into Muslim-ism?

Seems that "Muslim Activists" are not getting much traction there.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-23 19:10|| 2008-01-23 19:10|| Front Page Top

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