Orlando Tomorrow, Immigrants
Ali has been up in Orlando since Saturday with her family. Tomorrow morning I am driving up there with Nicki to spend a day with the gang. Ali has filled me in and it sounds like the week has been tiring going from park to park with two little girls. The party van has been performing like a champ and our timeshare has been getting glowing reviews.
Last night the neighbors invited me over for dinner. I took Nicki over and she played with their dog, Zoe. Zoe is a little Jack Russell and is the only dog friend Nicki has. While I was there I saw my first full episode of Deal or No Deal. I could easily get sucked into that show. After I got back home I watched the American Idol result show. I was glad to see Paris go. Even though she is a very good singer and probably did the best job of mutating to the different styles of music, she just was annoying. She always seemed like a little girl playing dress up and that little baby voice just grated on me.
My week or so of flying solo has been uneventful. The house seems empty without Ali around and Nicki has done nothing but moped for most of the time. It will be good to get back to normal. We will be driving back on Saturday.
On Monday they had another huge immigrant march in Orlando. These demonstrations, at least in our area seem to have had the exact opposite effect they were intended to. Instead of drumming up support for their cause, the majority of people here are outraged. The concept of people that sneak into our country illegally demanding rights that legal citizens have is outrageous. Even though most illegals are surely hard working people that are just looking to better their lives it doesn’t change the fact that they are breaking the law doing it and are trying to take a shortcut to something that legal immigrants have to work hard to attain. That’s bullshit. The fact that most Mexicans do not use contraception because it is a sin, adds to the problem drastically. It’s true that illegal immigrant labor is a big advantage to many employers because they can pay them less money and no benefits which helps pad employers pockets. Mexican workers surely do many jobs that most would not want to do but that does not excuse them being here illegally. Although the illegals save businesses money in labor costs, they cost this country billions by not paying income or social security taxes while taxing the medical system by utilizing hospital emergency rooms for any ailment down to the common cold.
The catering to hispanics in our society is also very disturbing. More and more businesses and services are offering things in English and Spanish, no longer making it a requirement for the immigrants to learn English. I mean really, wtf? I’m for active enforcement of immigration laws, better enforcement of the southern border and enforcement for people in this country learning the language and following the proper procedures to become american citizens. I mean if you were standing in a line at the movies a hundred people deep and someone walked up and stepped in front of you because they didn’t feel like waiting in the long line, wouldn’t it infuriate you? Yet this is exactly what is happening daily across the mexican border.