Jeff Binkley wrote:

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JB>MG>I'd like to interupt for a minute and ask a question, I'm not
JB>MG>being  sarcastic or anything, I'm serious.

JB>MG>Going back in history about 130 or so years some lazy, drunken
JB>MG>white men  got real unhappy with the fact that "the big
four" were
JB>MG>using immigrant  Chinese to build the rail road because they'd
JB>MG>work harder, cheaper and  more reliably than these white guys
JB>MG>would do. These same white guys  managed to convince Congress to
JB>MG>pass the Chinese Exclusionary act of  1882 stopping virtually all
JB>MG>Chinese immigration to the US for nearly  half a century. When
JB>MG>Nixon opened up to the PRC and immigration was  reinstated for
JB>MG>things other than just schooling many young people came  from the
JB>MG>ROC and some of them pretty much are responsible for the
JB>MG>invention of things that you put in computers, it can probably be
JB>MG>safely  said that if it weren't for immigrant Chinese we wouldn't
JB>MG>be  communicating this way. Ok, that's all the back greound that
JB>MG>is needed  for the question. Many people her in CA (and probably
JB>MG>other places too)  bitch and moan about "illegal
aliens" who pick
JB>MG>our produce and use our  services costing tax payers money. I
JB>MG>understand that, but isn't the  better solution to spending huge
JB>MG>amounts of money to keep them out to  allow them to come to work
JB>MG>and go home at the end of the season? Produce  prices would stay
JB>MG>reasonable, the workers would then be paying income  tax and both
JB>MG>them and us would benefit. I'm sure I'm not the first or  only one
JB>MG>to have ever thought about this so what am I overlooking in my
JB>MG>solution?

JB>The liberals will complain that they are taking away jobs.  Of course
JB>if  those jobs were already filled, there would be none to take away.


I don't know any American citizens who will pick Lima Beans bent over in 
the hot sun all day for $1.39 a bushel and not medical benefits, do you?

L'Chaim

Mimi

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