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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>James Reynolds writes:
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class="">"If the Republican party continues
in control of our government we will be in the same situation as the
Mexican workers. Then we will need to reflect on the Mexican plight in a
different light. We will have to look at them as our comrades in arms against a
government/corporate tyranny. If you cut them they bleed the same as
us."</FONT></FONT></P>
<P> </P>
<P>James, </P>
<P> </P>
<P>I agree with much of what you have to say on the topic of illegal
immigration. However, this problem has been swept under the proverbial
political carpet by both parties for a long time and through many
administrations. It has continued to grow and become the monster it is
today through both Republican and Democratic administrations. </P>
<P> </P>
<P>Let's face the fact that Republicans are sucking up to their big business
friends by allowing the cheap labor of these illegals to be exploited for
maximum profits. Let's also recognize that Democrats see an opportunity to
goom these illegals, via entitlements (paid for by American taxpayers), driver's
licenses and voting rights, in hopes they will in turn vote in more
Democrats. Both parties are allowing the exploitation of these illegals
for their own benefit.</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Dick</P>
<P> </P>
<P> </P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=chapandmaize@hotmail.com href="mailto:chapandmaize@hotmail.com">James
Reynolds</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:29
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] immigration:
comment to RVcowboy</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<P>Hey there Cowboy! I envy your retirement and am glad that you are keeping
up with the news and getting involved. Congratulation for not letting the
CEO's get your retirement but don't relax on the issue as I would think
there are at least a dozen of the pathetic buzzards circling, looking for a
way into your funds. I think that I agree with your ideas in general but
have a problem with blaming illegal Mexicans for our problems. The border
security <FONT class="">definitely</FONT> needs to be beefed up but the reason
I believe so may be <FONT class="">different</FONT> from yours. I think
that it is simply and <FONT class="">absolutely</FONT> stupid for our
federal Government to spend the billions they do pretending to make the
country safer from terrorist attacks and yet leave our borders wide open and
our ports practically so. I would ask the Bush administration what the hell
they are spending the billions on for security. I understand that they have a
super duper phone and e-mail tapping operation watching us that
probably cost billions but we aren't the terrorists, we are the <FONT
class="">terrorees</FONT>. What is the Bush administration doing to
protect us from anything? They are doing a fairly good job of protecting me
from a decent retirement and my children from a decent future but I think we
could handle that with our own mistakes. </P>
<P> </P>
<P>Anyhow the <FONT class="">immigration problem started out as a border
security problem and then morphed into this immigration deal where the illegal
Mexican laborers are being set up as our terrorists. The Mexican workers
aren't terrorists, they aren't our enemies, and they don't mean us harm. The
mexicans are escaping from a nation that was taken over by <FONT
class="">the US</FONT> corporate greed machine which only want to
pay them $5.00 per day without any perks whatsoever, and a government that is
crappy enough to go along with the scam. These people are just like us, they
just want to have a decent shot at a good life and they have found that since
our greedy manipulative corporate CEO's have invaded their country they can't
get that shot at home any more. So they come up here where we are at least
able to <FONT class="">out <FONT class="">maneuver</FONT></FONT> the
CEO's to some extent. In the long haul, I think it will have to be us working
folk the world over banning together to fashion some coherent battle plan
against the runaway corporate greed machine and the governments <FONT
class="">that deregulate the controls over the corporations so they can,
without <FONT class="">impunity,</FONT> ravage our families and our
countries.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class=""></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class="">I worked a few years with Mexican work crews
and found all that I met to be like me. But at that time I was like them, dirt
poor and only trying to find a way to make it. I have endured to some extent
by never giving up and I think you will find the Mexican convictions the
same. Even if the world is <FONT class="">completely</FONT> unfair most folk,
no matter their race or creed, will try their best to make life work for them.
Can you picture yourself in the shoes of a Mexican family working, the only
work available, lets say at a Levi factory where you and your wife bring home
10 dollars a day with no way to improve your lot? If there was a chance to go
somewhere where your family could get health care and you could make 10
times the money to support them, would you take the chance? I
would.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class=""></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class="">If the Republican party continues
in control of our government we will be in the same situation as the
Mexican workers. Then we will need to reflect on the Mexican plight in a
different light. We will have to look at them as our comrades in arms against
a government/corporate tyranny. If you cut them they bleed the same as
us.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class=""></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class="">James Reynolds</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT class=""><FONT class="">Moscow
ID </FONT></FONT> <BR><BR></P><BR>
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