Wednesday, January 22, 2003

I try to keep up with both the local and Georgia news by reading the newspapers. I can't help but laugh when I see the letters written about the mayor of Peachtree City, and the traffic on Ga. Highway 54.

Americans are losing jobs at a depression rate, and you worry about traffic, and the job the mayor is doing!

Let's give a little thought to things in America that affect everyone. Jobs are being lost, at J. C. Penny's catalog store in Forest Park, yet in Riverdale at an American-owned thrift store 98 percent of its employees are Hispanics (probably illegals since none of them speak English). Ever think about the fact that those are jobs lost for legal, Georgia-born people?

The U.S. Census lists 425,000 illegal Mexicans living in Georgia; that represents 400,000 jobs lost for Georgia-born unemployed.

We are sending our young men and women to foreign countries to defend foreign oil that will be sold to America, refined in America, and sold back to Americans by foreign-owned service stations.

Tomorrow when you fill your gas tank to go to work at a foreign-owned service station, do you ever wonder if your cash goes to kill Americans, the same foreigners who cheered at the loss of Americans in New York?

When you see on the news illegal immigrants protesting having to register with the immigration office, should we get up off our sofas and go and protest for immigration to do their jobs, register and deport illegal immigrants who are here? Now should we send the Georgia National Guard to work for the immigration department to round up 435,000 illegal Mexicans, taking jobs from legal Georgians, or should we just sit back and let Georgia grant them a driver's license to drive to work at jobs that unemployed legals should have? If immigration works, then just watch the jobs for the unemployed open up.

Illegal Mexicans are eating out at restaurants and buying new cars, while the blue blue-collar-unemployed Georgians are wondering where their next meal is coming from for their families.

Send the troops to defend the borders of the United States, and let Mexico employ their people at the factories that are U.S.-owned that are now operating in Mexico, representing a loss of jobs for Americans.

Have a great day at work, and try to think about where your American-earned dollar goes, think about the numbers of airline employees who are losing their jobs, instead of worrying about traffic and what the mayor is doing.

LeGay Saul

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