Sunday, May 03, 2009
Won't Do That Again
This is my Saturday and I was going to take advantage of the fact that I don’t have to do anything today by sleeping most of this morning. I got up to feed the cats and then crawled back in to bed, pulled the covers up around me and prepared to snuggle in while watching a little t.v. before dozing off again.
Until I started watching the local news. What a big, fat mistake that was.
You know, I’m getting really sick of the media. Their bias and b.s. PC crap is getting to be too much to bear. I was watching Channel 6 here in Miami, and I just happened to turn it on right when they began a story about the “behind the scenes of Miami Beach”. They start off by flashing a thousand pictures in 10 seconds talking about the fashion, the bikini clad women in the ocean, the high rises, the nightclubs, restaurants, hotels, blah, blah, blah. There’s just so much money pouring in to South Beach, they tell us.
But, dun, dun, Duuuuuuuuuuuun! Who’s running the place?
According to Channel 6 news in Miami, “undocumented immigrants” and they are being treated horribly. HORRIBLY, I tell you!
They went on to state that some “undocumented immigrants” aren’t even making minimum wage! Why, they’re only making $3.50 an hour. Three fifty an hour? How could we treat these people so poorly, they wail.
Their subject, “undocumented immigrant”, they said, works for $3.50 an hour plus tips, as a waiter. In fact, on a good day, he makes $90 a night. Most of them send money back home to their families in the country they came from and while here, they live 6, 7, 8 to an apartment. They feel they don’t have a voice! They want to get the attention of the President to do something about this disgusting treatment. This is not fair!
What an emotional story! We should feel angry, we should stand up and do something about this mistreatment!
Now, let’s put feelings aside and get to the truth of the matter. First of all, many states have this practice where waitstaff, bartenders, whathave you, make less than minimum wage. It’s not just the “undocumented immigrant”. Because I came from a state that paid minimum wage AND you got to keep all the tips you made, it took me awhile to figure this shit out. Frankly, I think it’s crap all the way around but that is the way it is in many states and these people know this when they get the job. Basically, the way it goes is that the employer doesn’t have to pay you minimum wage if your tips plus the wage equal to what you would get on minimum wage. I still don’t completely understand it but these people are getting at least minimum wage or better.
For example, let’s take our poor, mistreated “undocumented immigrant”. He makes $3.50 an hour plus tips, bringing home $90 a night. How can they live like this?!?! Listen, kids, do the math. This particular example is making $11.25 a fucking hour. UNDOCUMENTED. That means he pays no taxes on that $11.25 an hour. He sends a lot of it to his family in his home country so it is not circulating around our economy, in the United States, where this “undocumented immigrant”, made $11.25 an hour. A LOT of people, American citizens, make way less than $11.25 an hour. Minimum wage varies from state to state but average is about $7 an hour. So, in truth, these “undocumented immigrants” are making WELL OVER minimum wage.
Second, it is not, “undocumented immigrant”. It’s called ILLEGAL immigrant. They are here ILLEGALLY. As in, they have already committed a crime by sneaking in to this country. No, they do not have a voice. You are a criminal. You do not have the right to be here. I feel absolutely zero fucking sympathy for some asshole who is in this country illegally, making $11.25 an hour and sending it all back to his/her family somewhere in S. America or whatever country they are from. ZE. RO!
Third, the reason they are “riding bikes” to work and “living 6, 7, 8 to an apartment” is because they are ILLEGAL. It’s easier to trace an ILLEGAL immigrant if they get a car or an apartment in their own name. So they live on the beach, ride their bikes to work and come home to 7 or 8 of their illegal friends, family or associates. Because there are 6, 7, 8 of them in an apartment, they pay a pittance when it comes to the rent, electricity and other bills.
Now they’ve entered this country illegally, got a job making $11.25 an hour, had no taxes taken out, pay 1/8 of all the bills, send some of it back home to their families and you want me to feel sorry for them? The HELL if I feel sorry for them.
If St. Hope and Change was any kind of a decent President, he’d listen to them and their pathetic pleas, and then have them arrested and deported so that HARD WORKING AMERICAN CITIZENS could get those $11.25 an hour jobs down on the beach. Look, to a lot of people, $11.25 an hour is really not that much money but to a lot of other people, that is quite a bit of money. You won’t be “dirt poor” making $11.25 an hour. In fact, you can live quite comfortably on that amount. I know, I’ve made that amount before and as long as you aren’t wanting everything under the sun, you can live nicely that way. You can even save up money with that kind of earning. You can go to school and better yourself with that kind of earning.
Minimum wage was designed for people to get jobs who have no skills. That $11.25 an hour is NOT minimum wage. That’s the kind of pay you get when you have started to acquire some skills. You’re beginning to make your place in the world, you’re beginning to move on up to a great job. It’s absolutely nothing to cry over. But some asshole comes here illegally, takes that job from an American citizen who most certainly would take that job, (my aching ass they take the jobs that Americans won’t do), and be happy with it, doesn’t pay taxes on the wages and sends it back to their home country where they are supposed to be right now, anydamnway.
So Channel 6 News in Miami, you wanted me to feel something, you got it. You wanted me to feel pity or perhaps even get angry? Well, I’m angry alright. But not because of the so called piss poor treatment of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. I’m angry that these assholes are stealing our money and you think we should feel sorry for them. Fuck the illegal immigrants and fuck you, Channel 6 News.
