Or it can even be good crap, like whole rooms of purchases never unwrapped, tags still a dangle. "Doesn't look like we're going to be able to buy you that new "whatchamacallit,' sweetie, mammy spent a little too much at the store again." You know, that kind of thing? Typically, though, left unchecked, future layers of hoarded materials and the difficulties the isolated hoarder's life pile up and destroy or devalue the older stuff and eventually the whole house collapses. All is lost equally--the treasures and the trash.
You can see how this ties to immigration, right?
That's right, hoarders need borders. "You can't have my stuff. My stuff starts here and you've got to stay away. You stay on your side of the line. All the stuff over here is mine, mine, mine!" Not a terribly original sing and dance, more like the xenophobic chant Tea Party-types would like you to believe is our new national anthem.
Hoarders have simply bought into the propaganda American marketers consciously train us with to be weak emotionally, intellectually empty, violence prone perpetual children, under-educated and under enthused. Which is why we would have no sensitivity for refugees. Our entertainment trains us to be mindless, gutless, passive; but not endowed with actual concern for human suffering. In fact, the only thing you're left to do to be yourself is to purchase someone else's one size fits all. Now between commercials they half way hear some talking head say "Immigrants = Bad" and they buy that message as well.--Hate the immigrants, stealing our jobs, teach "em a lesson. They've pounded out that tune since the 1830s. The ignorant and the easily angered among us like to kick the dog, but anything alien will do. Further more, hoarders don't mind the immigrants in the factories, so long as they can build a wall around themselves with their own refuse.
Hoarders always seem to prefer finding someone else to blame for their problems. They have a funny way of looking at life. Secret sub-minimum wages & filthy farm worker barracks aren't earned to hard workers who are easily exploited by greedy American bosses looking to save a buck at someone else's suffering. No, it's that those Mexicans are "stealing our jobs!" Immigrants aren't paying excise taxes on everything they purchase, like the rest of us, and aren't contributing out of each paycheck to withholding and social security taxes into the names of their phony Ids, tax investments that they will never be able to collect on. No, it's that those lazy freeloaders are coming over just to get on our welfare. Undocumented immigrants aren't economic refugees, they're simply criminals. Or so some say.
But think about it: the ten million or so indigenous people who are here are merely migrating back over their own ancestral lands in the face of terrible hardship. Why do I use the words "hardship"? Would you make that kind of move for any other lesser reason? Civil wars, globalization economies wiping out thousand year old subsistence farming communities, Latin American domestic drug wars (fueled almost exclusively by America's appetite for self-destruction) with their US backed warlords staking out their turf on the backs of their neighbors--hardships powerful enough to cause mothers with babes in arms to risk the scorching deserts and the vile coyotes in the hope of a better life. This is the story told ten million times across the American homeland. That is the desperation of the huddled masses who have come here.
The tired, the poor and free-breathing hungry stream to our shores from all around the world, but in particular, from our friends to the south. Any bill built to target undocumented immigrants in Arizona could not help but target Hispanics, which make up most, but not all, of the undocumented immigrants in boarding up with friends and family from border to border.
And that is why the liberals and various minorities are up in arms then US estimates in 2010 say, as Wikipedia explains for us, the US undocumented immigrant population is, "about 11 million people, down from 12.5 million people in 2007. According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, in 2005, 57% of illegal immigrants were from Mexico; 24% were from other Latin American countries, primarily from Central America; 9% were from Asia; 6% were from Europe; and 4% were from the rest of the world."
So, since everyone in Arizona is subject to this law and everyone in Arizona looks like they could be from someplace else--this is after all Arizona, an immigrant state, a leader in the exodus from the rust belt to the sun belt where everybody's from some place else, where the white folks are migrants as well. How odd.
And so, then either the law is racist in its targeting of Hispanics and all brown skinned people in general, or life just got whole lot harder for everyone else too. You could be from Paradise Valley or Paraguay, from Fredonia or France, you could be from Iraq or Eloy and look the same: White, or Brown or Black. You could also be from just down the street and have a cop like askance and suddenly you're guilty until proven innocent.
And that's the way the hoarders want it. Luckily the redneck red state hoarse-throated hoarders aren't the only voices in America these days. The liberals and minorities across the country have risen up in arms in a fury that might quickly grow to match the Tea Partiers. Brewer's actions might be the outrage that can galvanize a movement. Tea Party is ripe for discreditation. This law will not hold up in court and not just because of its unfairness. It won't get off to a good start because it is unenforceable. It will be quickly challenged because it's unjust. It will be defeated because it is unsound. And that could turn a tide because we might remember to believe.
Right now however, it looks like it's going to be a terrible mess between the right against the left; and we may actually get ourselves into the state of crisis that the militia men have all trained their trigger fingers for. And if violence starts, they are more than ready to blame the immigrant. And you know which one I mean, "Obama, the secret Kenyan." Of course, ask a birther and this mess is totally Obama's fault. But, of course, that's not true at all.
Bush openly defied calls for immigration reform, letting the problem get steadily worse. When folks complained about his inaction, he would pose for a pic or two with his Hispanic grandkids and America would forget.
Somehow not fixing a huge social problem was just another deal to be made so businesses could profit from the cheap labor. Scandal after scandal rang out over the last decade of big businesses using big numbers of undocumented immigrants: Swift, Tyson, McDonalds, to talk about the tip of the iceberg. The immigrants in question get deported, the businesses wait out our collective 15 minutes of operant memory and go right back to looking for staff that will work cheap and not ask questions.
Some say why pick on Bush, he didn't start the problem and I say you are right. You can pick your president and say he's the one that crossed the line on border issues and you would be right. Like all the other disgraces our politicians squander our time and money over, our government doesn't really want this problem fixed. They won't fix it because the problem gives them power. Our industry won't fix it because illegals keep down wages. As Massey Energy's Don Blankenship showed, no matter how much big business claims to love the red-white-and-blue, they are mostly interested in the green. And our media won't fix it because the perpetuating the hatred part sells more tickets than building the happy ending.
But rest assured this bill will go down in flames. I'm just hoping it doesn't take the rest of us down with it in the meantime. The sad part is the people who will get burned in the interim, the gap between passage and repeal. Those who have to wait for justice deferred generally have a longer wait when that injustice is profitable. Like the difference between 1619 when race slavery began in America and some time some tomorrow when, or do I mean, if its injustice ever actually ends.
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