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Yerdaddy
10-04-2006, 05:58 AM
<p>Remember when this was a good day?</p><p><img height="671" src="http://www.csupomona.edu/~sfenglehart/%20Hst%20Images%20/Berlin%20Wall.JPEG" width="490" border="0" /></p><div class="sh"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5394222.stm" target="_blank">US Senate approves border fence </a></div><div class="sh" /><div class="sh"><font size="2"><strong>The US Senate has overwhelmingly endorsed the building of a fence along part of the border with Mexico, in an effort to curb illegal immigration.</strong> </font><p>The bill was approved by a vote of 80-19 - with leading Democrats such as Hillary Clinton joining the Republican majority that had proposed the measure. </p><p>The bill must be reconciled with a similar move passed in the House of Representatives last week. </p><p>Mexico has said the fence will badly affect relations with the US. <!-- E SF --></p><p>Supporters of the 700-mile fence (1,125km) fence said it was a crucial tool to fight illegal immigration - which is expected to be a key issue in November's mid-term elections.</p><p>When completed the fence will cover one-third of the length of the US-Mexican border. </p><p>Mexico has repeatedly condemned the plan. </p><p>On Friday Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez called it a "gesture that doesn't reflect the friendship between the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States". </p><p>He added that Mexican migrants were "not terrorists" - but people looking for work opportunities. </p><p>Earlier this year the Senate passed broad immigration legislation combining border security with a plan to create a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants living in the US. </p><p>The Senate and House were unable to reach agreement and instead resorted to passing a series narrow border security measures. </p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301254.html" target="_blank">Border Security, Job Market Leave Farms Short of Workers</a><br />Growers Frustrated by Delay in Agriculture Legislation</p><p>CLOVIS, Calif. -- Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant. But only one belt moved. P-R Farms, like farms up and down California and across the nation, does not have enough workers to process its fruit.</p><p>"We're short by 50 to 75 people," said Pat Ricchiuti, 59, the third-generation owner of P-R Farms. "For the last three weeks, we're running at 50 percent capacity. We saw this coming a couple years ago, but last year and this year has really been terrible."</p><p>Farmers of all types of specialty crops, from almonds to roses, have seen the immigrant labor supply they depend on dry up over the past year. Increased border security and competition from other industries are driving migrant laborers out of the fields, farmers say.</p><p>Earlier this year, many farmers were optimistic about finding a solution in the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, or AgJobs. The bill, proposed by Sens. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), would allow undocumented agricultural workers already in the United States to become legal permanent residents and would streamline the current guest-worker program. In March and September, hundreds of growers traveled to the Capitol to lobby for the bill.</p><p>But deep divisions within the Republican Party have stalled immigration reform. Although legislation to build a 700-mile fence along the border passed the House and Senate, the AgJobs proposal has languished.</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061002/pl_nm/immigration_usa_fence_dc_1;_ylt=ApPh_lvFVWXWWhJidr QI.JZQuk0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" target="_blank">Experts see U.S. border fence plan as impractical </a></p><p>[QUOTE]DOUGLAS, Arizona (Reuters) - Building a fence to try to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, <strong>according to former Customs and Border
cupcakelove
10-04-2006, 06:01 AM
<strong>Yerdaddy</strong> wrote:<br />
<p>Do we hate the world so much that we hurt ourselves?</p><p>Yes.</p><p>This fence is completely waste of resources. Its not even going to span the majority of the unfenced border. Plus, people are already dying to get into this country, and a stupid fence is not going to stop them.<br /></p>
<p>The French thought the Maginot Line would stop a German invasion. How did THAT work out? Anybody determined enough to enter this country is going to Von Schlieffen-plan around a fence. </p><p>This is typical government bullshit: spend money on some stupid, useless program to make the moronic electorate think you're doing something for their benefit.</p>
TheMojoPin
10-04-2006, 07:13 AM
<p>"Hey, what about the even bigger border to the north with even less security?"</p><p>"Uhhhhhh...MEXICANS!!! BOOOOOGA-BOOOOOO!!! SCARY!!!!"</p>
Hillary's a fucking moron. <br />
nate1000
10-04-2006, 12:32 PM
<strong>Yerdaddy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Remember when this was a good day?</p><p><img height="671" src="http://www.csupomona.edu/~sfenglehart/%20Hst%20Images%20/Berlin%20Wall.JPEG" width="490" border="0" /></p><p> </p><div /><p>I absolutely remember that day, however, my recollection is a bit different: </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0</a></p><p> </p>
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15149231/" target="_blank">Uhhhhhhhhh............ maybe not.</a><br />
Coach
10-06-2006, 01:17 AM
<p>Huh....China did it so much better!!!</p><p>my message to Bush...you are a lame Duck....</p><p>Make Like Nike:</p><p>JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!</p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Coach on 10-6-06 @ 5:19 AM</span>
The only thing curbing illegal immigration will accomplish is forcing domestic manufacturers to move south of the border or over to Asia. If we have to start paying $30 for a t-shirt at Wal-Mart is when you'll see people not complaining so much about illegal immigration.<br />
johnniewalker
10-06-2006, 10:39 AM
<strong>nate1000</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Yerdaddy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Remember when this was a good day?</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>* /><p>I absolutely remember that day, however, my recollection is a bit different: </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>Ha, I love the comment
"Das ist keine Jacke... das ist ne Gottheit"
SatCam
10-06-2006, 10:42 AM
I bet we'd save a ton of money if we didn't build this fence...
and fired that abortion called congress
Yerdaddy
10-07-2006, 05:08 AM
<strong>nate1000</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Yerdaddy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Remember when this was a good day?</p><p> </p><p> </p>* /> <p>I absolutely remember that day, however, my recollection is a bit different: </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAd2sHtMf0</a></p><p> </p><p>Ha! That video completely humiliated my German girlfriend, which is just the way I like her! Dankeschoen.</p>
furie
10-11-2006, 08:20 AM
the berlin wall devided one people. the proposed mexico wall will devide two. I liken it more to the great wall of china. An attempt to keep raiding hords of savages from entering and destroying a nation.
<strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />An attempt to keep raiding hords of savages from entering and destroying a nation. <p><img height="311" src="http://www.shepherd.edu/tkeweb/pics/cancun1.jpg" width="419" border="0" /></p><p>Cancun at Spring Break?</p>
FUNKMAN
10-11-2006, 09:44 AM
<strong>ADF</strong> wrote:<br />The only thing curbing illegal immigration will accomplish is forcing domestic manufacturers to move south of the border or over to Asia. If we have to start paying $30 for a t-shirt at Wal-Mart is when you'll see people not complaining so much about illegal immigration.<br /><p>good point ADF!</p><p>the question is "why does the price have to go to 30 dollars?" - my answer is Profit Margins</p><p>the Stock Market is the most influential root source of the state of finances and basically that means the corporations. It's a system that favors the most well-off. Poor people and i'd say at least 1/2 of the middle-class do not own stock. they only are affected by what happens within the stock market.</p><p>the price of oil goes up, the investors and the oil corporations rake in tons of cash. the poor and middle-class get to pay an additional dollar a gallon for gas as they work two jobs trying to make ends meet and possibly have health coverage</p><p>the stock market is a system that needs to be abolished and the playing field needs to be leveled. just 2 fund managers last year earned 1.6 billion in salary. that's 3.2 billion dollars that went to just 2 people. the remainder of the fund managers averaged 300 million in salary. they were a particular type fund that i can't think of right now.</p><p>the result of these exorbitant salaries? think about this money just sitting in the bank earning interest. it just has to sit there to earn millions upon millions in interest, where does that money come from? it comes form people being charged 20% interest on a car loan or 30% interest on a credit card. and who is paying the high interest? the poor and middle-class, people who have a 'mark' on their credit.</p><p>maybe there was a time when this system was more tolerable but over the years i believe it's been proven that the divide between rich and poor continues to grow 'no matter what political party is in power" which proves the corporations are stronger than the gov't. there are a higher % of people in poverty, without health coverage, than ever before and the "most wealthy list" continues to grow...</p><p>i don't wish any harm upon people but the best thing that could happen is somebody drop a bomb on the financial section of downtown new york that can shut down the markets for a few years. it would be nice when nobody is working or in the area so only the buildings, computer systems, etc get wiped out...</p>
furie
10-11-2006, 05:37 PM
<hr color="cococo" align="left"></font><strong>AKA</strong> wrote:<br><strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />An attempt to keep raiding hords of savages from entering and destroying a nation. <p><img height="311" src="http://www.shepherd.edu/tkeweb/pics/cancun1.jpg" width="419" border="0" /></p><p>Cancun at Spring Break?</p><hr color="cococo" align="left"><p></p>
yes, it protects both sides
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by furie on 10-11-06 @ 9:37 PM</span>
Yerdaddy
10-12-2006, 01:20 AM
<strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />the berlin wall devided one people. the proposed mexico wall will devide two. I liken it more to the great wall of china. An attempt to keep raiding hords of savages from entering and destroying a nation. <p>Could you bring up some fresh towels please, and make me some Chinese food, and after that put in some spruce trees around the back yard. Then knock up my daughter and go home. Thanks.</p>
furie
10-13-2006, 01:14 PM
are you suggesting that the huns are an important part of our economy?
Yerdaddy
10-14-2006, 03:02 AM
<strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />are you suggesting that the huns are an important part of our economy? <p>Si. And keeping our birth rate up. And contaminating the white race with multiculturalicity. And keeping the plain white t-shirt industry alive and well.</p>
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