How d'ya s'pose THEY got over here??? Not that I've got anything

against Khan men from Asia... I'm somethin' of a con man myself...

Anywayz, it tickles me, as I jump around from website ta website,

just how many folks ASSUMED those recently discovered illegal

Wal-Mart workers just HAD ta be...Hispanics...

(There wuzn't a peep about any nationalities in most of the news

stories I've seen... so a lotta... jumpin' beings...evidently...

leapt... to certain conclusions...)

Here's one of the better links I've come across:

http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/5/086431-9315-031.html

And wunna my friends wanted ya ta Czech this out:

The arrests did not surprise officials at the Czech embassy in
Washington. The last few years have seen widespread recruiting of young Czechs by shadowy labor brokers, who bring them to the United States for a host of low-paid jobs. "They find them either through the Internet or paid advertisements in newspapers back in eastern Europe," said Richard Krpac, the Czech consul. "This is a whole industry made on those hopes and promises and once those people are here they are put in slave-like conditions."
Krpac said Czech workers, usually poor or unemployed at home, are offered work and housing in the United States. They often wind up on cleaning crews at large discount stores, in construction or in similar jobs. Their employers rarely pay what was promised, but the workers -- who mostly do not speak English -- are in a poor position to object, he said.

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The problem, of course, isn't with those poor foreign folks... It's with the greedy big biz types who want ta pay ALL workers slave wages...
I'm pretty sure I know what that Sparta cuss would say about that...

Thanks fer listenin'... and now I gotta go again fer now... it's very busy at this end... Toodles!

*Squints*

If I knew what you were asking, I might answer... in proper english, please?

Sorry 'bout that, Age... I was in a hurry and I rather badly organized the post, I'm afraid...

The question was rhetorical, not really meant ta be answered... The linked story should explain what I wuz gettin' at... Even as tons of high tech jobs are bein' outsourced overseas, it would be unwise ta think jobs which can't be moved ta other shores are necessarily safe over here...

Cheap workers can... and ARE... bein' brought in (also up in yer corner of the woods?) ...It's just good ol' Capitalism sneakin' up behind us kinda quiet-like... Thought I'd squirm just a littlebit...

Thanks fer askin'... (By the by, if you and yer Canadian friends ever wanna come down here and burn our White House to the ground again... I promise not ta laugh... too HARD anywayz!!!

Best Wishes... :)

Oops, sorry again! Some folks might not know that our Canadian friends did indeed burn our Capitol in the 1800s... but only after WE invaded their territory... (and we weren't lookin' fer any Weapons of Mass Destruction, as far as I know...)

Sorry 'bout those "good ol' days," Age... :)

Heh, you're sorry about -us- burning down -your- white house?

Whatever works for you.

No, no, no!!!

I LOVE a good barbecue! I'm sorry that the U. S. invaded Canada...

It wuzn't the friendliest thing ta do... :) (Especially since it wuzn't Canadians who had ticked us off... it wuz the BRITISH! Some big wigs in the White House (I guess they still wore wigs in those days, anywayz) decided that since America didn't have a strong enuff navy back then ta tackle England's naval forces, they would send a message by attacking Canada... This stuff is all mentioned in history accounts about the War of 1812, I believe...

Anywayz, no way am I criticizin' my Canadian friends fer defendin' themselves against us... (Hope I didn't sound like a hockey puck)

All the Best...

The War Of 1812
by The Arrogant Worms

Oh, come back proud canadians
before you had tv
no hockey night in canada
there was no cbc
in 1812 madison was mad
he was the president, you know
but he thought he tell the british where they ought to go
he thougth he'd invade canada
he thought that he was tough
instead we went to washington
and burned down all his stuff

and the whitehouse burned burned burned
and we're the ones that did it
it burned burned burned
while the president ran and cried
it burned burned burned
and things were very historical
and the americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
wa wa waaaa
in the war of 1812

now hillbillies from kentucky
dressed in green and red
left home to fight in canada
but they returned home dead
its only war the yankees lost
except for vietnam
and also the alamo
and the bay of... ham
the loser was america
the winner was ourselves
so join right in and gloat about
the war of 1812

and the whitehouse burned burned burned
and we're the ones that did it
it burned burned burned
while the president ran and cried
it burned burned burned
and things were very historical
and the americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
wa wa waaaa
in the war of 1812

in 1812 we were just sittin' around
mindin' our own business
puttin' crops into the ground
we heard the soldiers coming
and we didnt like that sound
so we took a boat to washington
and burned it to the ground

oh, oh...
we burned our guns
but the yankees kept on coming
there wasn't quite as many
as there was a while ago
we fired once more
and the yankees started runnin
down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico
they ran through the snow
and they ran through the forest
they ran throught the bushes where the beavers wouldn't go
they ran so fast that they forgot to take their culture
back to america, gulf, and texico

So, if you go to Washington, its buildings clean and nice,
Bring a pack of matches, and we’ll burn the White House twice!

and the whitehouse burned burned burned
but the americans won't admit it
it burned, burned, burned,
it burned and burned and burned
it burned, burned, burned,
now, i bet that made them mad
and the americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
waa waa waah!
in the war of 1812!

Thanks fer sharin', Age... I enjoyed that tremendously...

As fer the Viet Nam War... Well, I know that there are some folks who'll tell ya that that warn't no war, that wuz a "police action."

But I say that if the Viet Nam thing wuz just a "police action," then maybe WWII wuz just an... "excercise in Kraut control."

Keep smilin'... :)

Originally posted by In Odder Words
As fer the Viet Nam War... Well, I know that there are some folks who'll tell ya that that warn't no war, that wuz a "police action."


Interesting. It makes me think of the Ageria War, which was never called a war in France until it was over for long. During the war, the official words were "operations to maintain order". And this bloody and shameful war has been referred to as "the Algeria events" for years.

Yer RIGHT, astra... (gee, I hope THAT didn't sound insultin'...)

Political and military folks have such a... "colorful" way of reconstructin' language...

"collateral damage" fer killin' the "wrong" folks...

"friendly fire" fer killin' the "wrong" folks...

"tactical withdrawal" fer "retreat"

and... "etc." fer... uh, "etcetera?"

Anywayz, thankz, ya always seem ta have an interestin' viewpoint ta share... :)

Odder, you need to have your apostrophe key taken away.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
Odder, you need to have your apostrophe key taken away.
He needs to have his Internet access removed, so he can never drive another person insane.

Originally posted by In Odder Words
Yer RIGHT, astra... (gee, I hope THAT didn't sound insultin'...)

Political and military folks have such a... "colorful" way of reconstructin' language...


Thank you Odder
In fact, in the case of Algeria (And I guess it is the same with Vietnam in the USA ?) it was more the political than the military.
Most soldiers and even the hierarchy would have liked to be recognised as war veterans. Instead, they were denied even that and let with the "shame" of a lost and painful "event".

I was discussing last week with an uncle who was paratrooper during the Ageria war. What he saw there disgusted him from wars forever. Torture, rape, slaughter… Oddly, the very events Algeria is going throug again these years, and that are attributed to "Islamist terrorists" (while the army is looking elsewhere) were perpetrated by soldiers of my country 40 years later.
This is not a coincidence IMO.