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"I don't want to give away a piece of my country for the sake of cheap lettuce. Talk about selling your birthright for a mess of pottage! (Genesis 25:30, the story of Jacob and Esau)."
Well put, dchamil. I get so tired of hearing that without all of these illegal immigrants, we'll be paying $5 for a head of lettuce. The fact is we ARE paying $5 for a head of lettuce; we're just not paying it at the grocery store. We're paying it in our taxes, out health insurance, our schools, our communities, our environment, etc.
Posted by: D Flinchum at Sep 1, 2005 7:04 PM
The basic fallacy is this: Because my great-grandfather was a legal immigrant, I have a duty to accept illegal immigrants in unlimited numbers, no matter how hostile they are and no matter how resistant to assimilation they are. Of course, this isn't necessarily so. I don't want to give away a piece of my country for the sake of cheap lettuce. Talk about selling your birthright for a mess of pottage! (Genesis 25:30, the story of Jacob and Esau).
Posted by: dchamil at Sep 1, 2005 10:00 AM
"an incoherent rant"
Regarding grammar, spelling, etc, you are right. But I think its basic message -- 'If all they've done is break immigration law, what's the problem?' -- is clear, and in that sense it's plenty "coherent". And of course such sentiments are not at all uncommon, even among folks who are capable of more 'coherence': I know someone who teaches at a community college in Southern California, and occasionally this person sends me faculty emails -- emails that deal with the financial needs of students who are "immigrants". Example: appeals to support a scholarship fund for "immigrants", or to announce in class that such funds exist, i.e. so students can apply for this financial aid. In some emails the language is quite direct -- "undocumented" -- so you know those targeted for this aid are here illegally. In others...Well, you know who they mean.
Posted by: eh at Sep 1, 2005 8:30 AM
"It was posted from a small college in California's Central Valley."
"It" is an incoherent rant. Was it from a student or one of the professors, do you think?
Posted by: D Flinchum at Sep 1, 2005 6:35 AM