The US is just the destination for the hispanic poor.

Really? Then why is the Pacific Northwest full of Slavs, Semites, black Africans, East Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans...? Most of whom have been given a small business or tractor trailer by the government, with no expectation of or mandate for repayment. I worked with several Somali truck drivers, who refused to do any mandated maintenance on their rigs because "when it breaks the government will just give me another one".

Stores were routinely taken from American born owners in the late 1980s and handed over to "gooks", now they are losing the stores in favor of Sikhs, Arabs and Africans. None of whom follow food safety mandates, age restrictions on purchases, banned merchandise restrictions, etc.

We're seeing the same here in west TN as I experienced out west. My favorite local market went from local born and raised ownership, stocking products tailored to the local area, to being Lebanese run. High school kids are routinely in there buying beer and cigarettes...

Any immigrant who wanted to work the Seattle/Tacoma container business was given a truck by the US gov't. Small Business Administration "loan" that was not expected to be paid back.

1/07-1/11 is when I worked the container ship piers, railyards and secure Customs warehouses.

Those drivers were also GIVEN secure facility access cards and haz-mat endorsements.

My t.w.i.c. card (secure facilities access pass) cost around $75, out of my pocket. Haz-mat fingerprinting was $81, the test was $25 and the endorsement (good for 2 years at a time) was even more on top of that.

On a container run that I pulled down $100 gross income, they'd happily underbid the run at $10-20 profit.

Paraquat wrote on 04/13/13 at 05:34:23:


What is working ? there are still shootings - OK the librull naming of the gun and taking it away is working ? I guess that is a valid point.

WD wrote:
Any immigrant who wanted to work the Seattle/Tacoma container business was given a truck by the US gov't. Small Business Administration "loan" that was not expected to be paid back.

What kind of immigrant - I know of several compadres who actually owned trucks and made canada/LA type runs including several who pulled for walmart. Injun, Fijian etc etc ... you're missing some detail here. They weren't handing out trucks to immigrants, my friend owned a mid 80's truck he bought in the mid 90's with a million and 1/2 miles for what I thought was a stupid $$$ something like 7-8g. He said it was low.

Cool.
Srinath.