*Turn me loose in wide open spaces,
let my spirit race where ever it chases.
This is my land of past and future generations,
fought and bought in battled relations.
Close our borders and send them running,
back to their own borders they are shunning.
There's no profit in percentages plundering,
I've lost my Patience and refuse dumbing.
To say we have Americans who refuse to labor,
is a lie politicians love to inflect and savor.
If you abuse the migrant foreign laborer,
and reject your tax base American saver.
Who do you think will pay your cushy check,
while the middle class bleeds out in neglect.
You can't get water from the moon,
or taxes from a broken back society doomed.
I've said it once,and I'll say it again,
the treatment of American loyalist is a sin.
~~~Suseann~~~
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I've e-mailed this to my hometown news paper The Kansas City Star.Lets see if it runs in the opinion section at least.
Written January 27th, 2006
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Your opinion is shared by many dear friend, you have expressed yourself so wonderfully here. It deserves to be read and heeded. -
it should be run in every newspaper around the country, Suseann from the New York Times and Washington Post all the way around. your poem is a message that should and must be heard.
living in VA where so much construction is going on year-round, there's a flux of migrant illegal workers hired for these jobs, but it doesn't mean the cost of the houses themselves are any less--not that that's even an excuse. as you may have heard on the news over this past summer, there was a run-on with such workers meeting up at a residential 7-11 in Herndon, VA where they would or would not be picked up for day work...but at the expense of the residents of the area who had to tolerate the unemployed loitering in their neighborhoods all day. Herdon is about 30 miles outside my home...but the same is occurring at the local shopping mall parking lot, the IHOP...and too many places.
in my opinion, American citizens and those qualified to work in this country would accept these very jobs, even the jobs making up beds in motels or picking grapes or whatever. but a day's work requires and does deserve a decent wage. to say that American won't accept such labor is a rich man's cop-out.
very good statement by this poem, and please do let me know if your local newspaper does publish. I'll dig up the editorial page addresses for both the New York Times and Washington Post for you in the meantime!
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I'm a moderate democrat.Not quite sure how you can make such wide sweeping claims encompassing the voice on the left.
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Yep, we're a Corporate Dictatorship ran by the members of Secret Societies, sad when you think about it; ah the good ol' days, when we were a society of equally respected men: back about the time of John Quincy Adams. Anyway, if you go to Mexico, they do not care if you travel in or to a border district, but if your going to the interior, you have to go through Mexican Immigration, and you can expect to be stopped and checked over at a military checkpoint by the Mexican Army. Which is the way it should be; who wants a bunch of gringos running around all over the place, anyway. (LOL) Oh well, Happy Chinese New Year (Jan. 29th) It will be the year of the Dog!
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It's about time I've heard someone address this important topic in the form of a poem. It's good to hear non-left wing poets for a change, for they are the anti-trend.
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