LOCOMOTIVE OFF THE TRACKS?

I think what is amazing today, as we see “illegal aliens” coming over here and other places of opportunity, that these people upstake and leave everything behind, and take advantage of the opportunities that we take much for granted on a daily basis. The whole immigration issue, to me, is overstated. People get on their soap boxes and talk about thenm learning our language, and fighting for the coountry, and on and on, redundantly. First let me say this! 1. They are H U M A N B E I N G S ….SPELL IT! No different from us! They want the same things as we do, a family, security, opportunities, education, respect, and so on. And another thing, I don’t blame them on iota! No sir! If we lived the way thay have had to survivfe, we would come running across the Rio Grande Stark Naked if we had to! Put ourselves in their shoes for a second here! Crime, corruption, murder, can’t trust any body, even the cotton pickin police, especially the police! People over there are murdered and put into mass graves for heaven sake! That’s the absolute truth! In Durango they unearthed hugs scores whom the drug cartels have mercilessly murdered! Think about that for a moment and then tell me that these people con’t belong over here! (any heart left in there, huh?) If we want to blame someone, oh if that is so neccessary, then blame the authorities! The hot potato is in their hand! And think about this, if they, really, REALLY! did not want “them” over here, you think they would be coming huh? I don’t think so! But here is how I see it….we’ve gotten so complacent with our “opportunities” right in front of our own eyes that we don’t even see them any more! Ok! That’s sick! We have all the P O T E N T I A L but many are like a locomotive OFF THE TRACK! What good is a locomotive (big word) off the track! No direction? No forward accomplishments! Just sit there and let the wheels turn and dig thenselves into a RUT! Definition of a Rut: Grave with both ends kicked out! Every day people get up and have the same opportunities as anyone else does, but sit in their own despair and blame the world for what is happening to them. Makes me cry They say that if you take a small elephant and tie it to a stake as a youngster, when it is old, it will stay tied to the stake, because it is all happening in it’s HEAD! It will not move, and neither can many today because they’ve grown comfortable in the own tepid filth! Many of us “ameericans” have convinced ourselves that we can no longer succeed in our own country. Blame the President! He’s an easy mark! At least he has done something with his own life, ya THINK? Blame the politicians! Blame your teachers! The Principal! The Judges, the System! One thing happening here, point a finger out and look closely…..you have THREE pointing back at ya there! 🙂
Aha! Vloila! Now tell me, please who’s the blame? You got it. The fellow in the mirror. The Locomotive off the tracks. I don’t give a flying flip in a bucket of hors deuvers who you are, how much education you do or don’t have, who your daddy or mama was or which side of the track you grew up on. If you have two hands and two feet, ten fijgers and toes, and can move your limbs, or your BRAIN! If you can even THINK! You can do something about your life, I’ll guarantee you! Listen friend, God did NOT put a canteloupe on your shooulders! And he did NOT put ice water in your veins! He did NOT put styrofoam in your lungs! I have a step son, Kevin, 39 years old, a quadriplegic, with CP in a wheel chair. His hands are twisted, his feet, his legs are both out of socket in his hips, but oh thank God he can talk, and talk he does! But y’know what I love to see? We go into nursing homes, and I play a little like Ol’ Jerry Lee, and we “Rock the Geezers” kevin says, LOL But when they see him there, and he has a tamborine in his twisted hands, or a drum stick shoved between his fingers and a snare in front of him, and we cut loose and the residents are getting up and dancing with the staff!…they see someone whom they would be certain, couldn’t do a lick! But ya better NOT tell Kevin that! He’s apt to rise up if he could and bump your BLESSED ASSurance! So, what now? If you know someone, or you are THAT someone who thinks that your opportunities are sooooooooooo linited, and your choices sooooooooooo few, just rememger that little story as a child about the little locomotive 🙂 I think i can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can……..because Darlin’ …..if you THINK…..You CAN! (Oh by the way, I love those Mexicans and Latinos, I think they have brought us a blessing if we’re awake enough to accpt that) (LOVE THEIR SALSAS!)

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  1. Pianerman – I live in South-Texas, about 4 and a half miles from the Mexican border. According to the latest census, 92% of Hidalgo County is (Hispanic). I wouldn’t use that term openly here though, quite often you see a Tee shirt that says, “Not Hispanic, Not Latino, Not Chicano, MEXICAN!” There is a train of thought in the US that we should put troops on the border to stop the illeagles by any means necessary, even lethal force. Well, its constitutionally impossible to do that short of invasion. We can’t stop the drugs crossing the border by killing Mexicans – we can only stop it by taking away their incentive – and the incentive is American drug users and the billions of dollars they spend to acquire and use those drugs. I would remind those recreational drug users that an occasional line of cocain or a innocent joint might have cost a Border Patrol Officer or a DEA agent his life, and a lot of those guys are my neighbors. And guess what? Most of them are Mexican. The drug lords (God I hate that term) want to keep Mexico poor because it creates an army of people so desperate that they will risk everything to carry drugs across the border. Does Mexico need to get its collective crap together? You bet they do, and if they don’t do it soon they may lose their whole country to the corruption and influence of drug money. But, the majority of the blame has to fall on the shoulders of Americans and Canadians who buy those drugs. If they couldn’t sell it here, they wouldn’t bring it here. You want to smoke a joint? Vote to legalize pot and grow your own. Coccaine, we can do without.

  2. (darn that security question, I wish it were more visible, or on top of the comment area grrrrr) Maybe I’ll remember it sooner or later! Thank you for your comment and ideas, they are most enlightening to me. The drug problem here is a night mare, and growing in concern day by day, ruining the very foundations of our democracy. Nakita Kruschev was right, they have lead the Trojan Horse right into our living room with the drugs. this happened long ago while we were busy with the Cuban Missle Crisis and Madeline O’Hair’s issues of the Bible reading and prayer in our schools there was a sinister and subtle digging away back then. The poor of Mexico and panama and Brazil and so many countries are under the gun of those drug cartels, and bringing them across the borders and ships and planes. I think that i was focusing more on those Mexicans/Latinos who have been here for a few years, and settling in to our ways of life and enjoying the opportunities before them, not those who are mainlining the drugs in at the same time, the dark side of the coin. But let me ask you this please. In your conversations with the border guards, and others, is there ever any discussion as to WHY our government is allowing such a high percentage of those aliens to come here, and subsidize them with tax free jobs, medicine, dental, even Social Security benefits to those who have never even paid into the system!!! I think that is what is frosting most American Arses! But, we can’t blame the recipients! Uh uh! We’d be there with our hands out too if it werre us coming across the borders, from a living hell! Everyody loves a free lunch now! But my question isn’t so much to them, it is those who are ALLOWING them, and I ask myself, “for what reason”. There has to be an underlying reason for everything, especially something this big! A few of them come across, oh of coourse, but millions and millions? Come on! Are they allowing them to come because of military reasons? An Army in case of the worst case scenario? Or is it because of the fact that our economy is losing literally billions and billions of dollars, and making production impossible to be profitable just because us Americans DON’T SHOW UP TO WORK! And when we do, we have more frequin issues on our minds than PRODUCTIVITY! We have the cell phones and ipods smashed up against our ears so we don”t hear the customers complaining! And then we are all upset because many corporations are taking their business elsewhere< and especially CHINA! Is that why the U.S. is welcoming the "aliens"? They give us a days work? I'm grasping at straws here, I really don't know! Not to be reduntant, but there is a REASON for everything! We give them tax free money, and subsidize their housing, medical/dental and even lawyers......free? And our leaders don't have a motive for all this? Yeah, right! Hey, even Santa has to get paid! So again, let me ask you. Do you have a clue? Why? Ask around would you? I think that if you go to the average person in the street and ask them, they are, like I am, clueless! It's not being talked about. ?

  3. I’ve read with deep interest both gentlemen comments…but …can’t comment …I’m an outsider…AM I ??
    We have similar problems here in Australia …with migration policies and refugees…I’m not really informed about them…as like many others like me…we tend to sweep it under the carpet…Perhaps it’s about time to stand up and be counted!!