Pillows, free pass, vball

Yesterday when I was walking back in from the parking lot I spotted a beat up Hyundai Elantra with two big blue pillows stuffed in the back seat.  After I was 10 feet past it, I stopped, turned around and went back to look again.  The two big pillows were wedged around a child seat.  I came up with one of two conclusions.  Either the driver of this car is extremely concerned with their child’s safety or there is something wrong with the car seat or seat belts on the car and this is their answer to the problem, wedge the kid in.  I think the latter is much more likely.

I read that the immigration reform bill is unlikely to pass, good.  I understand that Mexicans that cross the border illegally are doing so to find work, to support their huge families (that become huge because they don’t practice birth control) and in general, to better their lives.    However, to me, it doesn’t excuse them from breaking the law.  If I needed money to pay for an operation for my wife or my daughter, does it excuse me from robbing a bank to do it?  In a way, that is what illegals do to our country.  They come across, get free health care, free education and all of this without contributing to the SS system or the federal tax coffers.  It’s just bullshit pure and simple. 

 My thoughts on illegals have certainly become more topical since I moved to Florida.  The immediate area where I lived in Southeast Pennsylvania didn’t have a large influx of illegal aliens, although the mushroom plants that were near by had tons of them working there.  In the Naples area, illegal aliens are everywhere.  The year round warm weather creates lots of jobs in farming, landscaping and construction, all areas they swarm to.  I have to admit it angers me or more specifically when I see the efforts made to cater to them.

More and more things are bi-lingual.  You don’t need to know a lick of English to get a driver’s license or to vote (although an illegal can not vote) Signs, advertisements, radio stations and labels are in Spanish everywhere you look.  Just like many other situations, big business is to blame.  They don’t care if catering to the Hispanic population makes it easier for them to come to America and not even bother to learn the language.  It’s all about money and they can make a lot of it by selling their goods directly to illegal aliens, 12 million strong. 

The legislation on the table would basically excuse all of the Mexicans that have already snuck across the border illegally, allowing them to stay here after paying some small fine.  How many of the illegals do you think are going to run up and pay such a fine?  Next to none, they will just stay in the shadows, paying for everything with cash, living 10 to a house, commuting to work in the back of a pickup truck and sucking whatever resources they are able to from the country.

It just isn’t right. Plus, if George Bush thinks it is a good idea, you know the opposite is true.  It’s just political posturing to get the hispanic vote in 08.

 My knees currently feel decent.  I am going to give volleyball another go round this weekend, this time in Hollywood, FL.  I am bringing my ice bag with so I can ice the knees during the long trip back across the alley.

The rest of the week I will be in training in Fort Myers, meaning the blog will lie dormant until next Monday at the earliest.