i live in the USA. i love it here, its a great country. ive been outside of it a few times and even with those brief visits see how lucky i am to live here.
However that does not mean that i dont get tired of having to press 1 for English, or dealing with people that dont speak the language of our land. In the other countries ive been in they dont cater to us so why do we cater to them. There are parts of this country and even restaurants where they take foreign currency only...whats up with that?? i can see them taking it and doing the proper exchange if its in a tourist area but to only take foreign funds is just wrong. Oh and its been a few weeks since i read that article so if thats been changed and im not aware i apologize for my facts being off.
ive worked with immigrants and had no issue with it.. Why??? because they are going about it the right way. Not sneaking over on a blow up raft and trying to take this country for everything they can get. When they come over here, do the paperwork and try to become a citizen or have a work VISA thats fine with me. But what pisses me off is when they come over, have no intention of becoming a citizen and still end up with public assistance and getting more than the rightful american. ive been on public assistance in the past and its not fun, but i didn't feel bad about it as i put in many years of working 2 full time jobs, paying my taxes and doing everything i could to support my family on my own. Sometimes people do need legitimate help and i see nothing wrong with it. However when someone who cant speak English, doesn't want to work, and has 10 kids wants to sit on their ass and collect a check there's an issue, american or not. im not talking out my ass here folks, ive witnessed this myself and it sickens me.
So many people come over here and take the funds that our own country needs to support itself. We have a major poverty issue here. So many living under bridges, in boxes or in whatever nook they can seek for the night. Why arent we helping these people?? Many of them are victims of circumstance.
In a town just a little ways from me there is a single father right now who had a teen daughter. His wife, her mother passed away from cancer. They put so much money into her treatment that didnt work that he has now filed bankruptcy, lost their home and lives in their car. On the rare night when the homeless shelter can take him in from the elements they cannot take his daughter, but luckily the lady there is nice enough that she lets the girl stay in the office part with her away from everyone else. The teenager is brilliant, a straight A student, a sports player and if you ask me one hell of a strong girl to hold up through losing her mother, home and everything she knew that was life and now be living like they are and keeping her grades up. But does anyone see this?? No, they dont care. But i bet if she was some immigrants child she would have been taken in somewhere, adopted and cared for.
i just get tired of seeing our own population suffer because others come from countries abroad and get the same rights as us. i say deport them all unless they are born with a social security number or are willing to learn English and pay taxes and earn their own way and can speak to me in my native language.
So the next time anyone sees me flipping off the phone its probably all because it asked me to press i for English...ill show them what the number 1 really is!!!
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