fucking cheney provokes a rant about immigration

they're all to blame, those damned republicans!

there's a wonderful blog i read, the aristocrats, and today,

one of the four contributors wrote a very thought-provoking piece

about our illustrious vice-president, shown above.

i started to write a response, but then realized i just couldn't do it.

i just couldn't post my opinion

AND still respect and not violate a commenter's

unspoken and unwritten obligation to maintain

a reasonable amount of brevity.

but if it's one's own blog,

well, hell, talk on, dude!

so, this is what i started to say in response to mark's post:

. . .

i know should feel better than i do right now,

since this piece was really very funny,

and well conceived and executed,

but i feel nauseous, and i need to take a long, hot shower.

and i need a strong drink.
. . .
it's really frightening, living here in iowa,

and having these idiot republican candidates

roaming around like flies on shit,

tap-dancing over and around the bush administration policies,

saying "i'm like that" and "i'm not like that"

and listening to these stupid iowa republicans saying,

"you know, i'd never even heard of [fill in the blank}

before i came to mcdonald's for coffee this morning,

but i heard what he had to say about [well, let's say immigration],

and i agree with him.

by god, we DO need to build a fence-

-i say 30 feet high wouldn't be too high."

. . .

the truth is that here in iowa, we DO have a lot of immigrants,

some of them no doubt illegals, and we have FOR YEARS!

seasonal vegetable growers [truck farmers] have for my entire life relied upon these [typically mexican] workers to get the crops out of the fields. it is HARD, back-breaking work, and there has never been a tradition of locals [read: white folks]lining up to do this work.

in fact, many of the larger employers have long had permanent housing available for the workers when the buses would pull into town. entire families often would travel together, work together, and live together during their stay in iowa, before moving on to their next destination.

and more recently, the hispanic population has moved into the slaughter houses in central iowa. in northern iowa, and southern minnesota, south asians also work the slaughter houses and packing plants.

but for some reason, the good, simple folks of iowa have their bloomers in bunches over the need to get rid of these damned illegals, because they're taking our jobs. they're not paying taxes.

yeah, bullshit.

they're not paying taxes just like we bicyclists aren't paying taxes.

and is they ARE getting paid cash, um, how many of you good, simple iowa folks like to pay cash for labor done?

and just who would mow your too large lawns?

and who would lay asphalt, pour concrete, reshingle your roof?

you guys bitch about this and that, they're taking jobs, crowding our schools, wanting health care.

well, what about your fine, lily-white sons and daughters?

what are they doing to fill the jobs that might otherwise go unfilled or taken by those damned illegals?

did you suggest that little suzie or young biff might want to work at firestone, or tyson, instead of getting that internship at, where, the mall?

you know, for wanting to reduce government, and cut taxes, and get government off our backs,

those crafty--no, i think i decided they're evil--right wingers sure have a knack for running up huge budget deficits!

i wonder why pete has never tried to explain THAT apparent paradox?

and he says that al sharpton and jesse jackson are harmful.