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To: Schnullie who wrote (172816)12/20/2008 5:36:36 PM
From: tejekRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
Are times so tough that we're reverting to cannibalism? Battering people is not only desperate, its fattening.

LOL.



To: Schnullie who wrote (172816)12/20/2008 9:44:24 PM
From: SchnullieRespond to of 306849
 
Omigod! This has gone beyond cannibalism! U.S. born Americans are actually doing manual labor!!! How humiliating.

Whatever happened to traditional boomer values, like sloth, greed, smugness, mindless stupidity?


U.S. Workers Crowding Out Immigrant Laborers Article
By MIRIAM JORDAN

LOS ANGELES -- A year ago, a day-laborer center adjacent to a Home Depot here teemed with Latin American immigrants who showed up and found a sure day's work painting, gardening or hauling.

These days, more than immigrants are packing the Hollywood Community Job Center: Unemployed Americans are joining them. There's little work for anybody.

"Everybody is coming to look for work," says Rene Jemio, outreach coordinator for the hiring hall. "It's not just your average immigrant anymore; it's African-Americans and whites, too."