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Originally posted by turbo6bar
As long as immigrants, illegal or not, can make a better life for themselves, I have little sympathy for those unwilling to achieve.
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Right on!
I don't care if the article was left or right, it makes sense.
Let me tell you a story...
A man and his wife come to America with 7 kids, the oldest not old enough to work and the youngers just a few years old. No one speaks English. The man takes a janatorial job that pays just above minimum wage. The women takes a minimum wage job that she has to be "bused" to because she has no car. The charge to be "bused" to her job takes a big chunk out of her daily earning.
With hard work, determination, help from welfare and help from family and friends, the family can just make it by. Eventually, the family is off welfare, can afford a car for the father, then a car for the mother, then kids get old enough to work and contribute. The family eventually can afford to buy a house. Kids go off to college, get married, etc...
25 yrs after coming to America, both the man and women still work. The man at the same job for almost 25 yrs. They still own a house, have 3 cars, happy children and grand children....in a few months the man will retire as a citizen of the US with a pension and will draw on Social Security. He's active in his community and with a national political party (I won't tell you which). The woman will continue to work until she hits retirement age.
If you don't think there was resistance or hurdles based on race or ethnicity for that family along the way ...you will never understand. Yet, I don't read anything in Williams article that indicates a racist message.
I suppose folks from different background will get a different message from the article, but I hope common sense is...well common in the readers. I suppose that's what my father would say. He'll deserve retirement in a few months....