Posted: Monday, September 4, 2006 7:00 pm
I am a white American female, and I’m married to a Mexican. Hearing about all these immigration problems and people fighting over it makes life really hard on me. I believe the ones that are here are here.
If they are going to be sending people back to their homeland, they should look at their history. The ones who are causing problems, breaking the law, drugs, child molestation, sure send them back. But for someone who’s been here for some years, with a family, only working hard to get food and clothes, it just doesn’t seem right to send them back.
Think of yourself in a place to where you’re really suffering, (even if you’re rich now, just imagine) working more than 12 hours a day and only getting around $300 to $350 a week. It would be really hard for you, too!
Someone looking for a better life, wanting to feel carpet under their feet instead of concrete, to have their own bed instead of sleeping with three or four other people, and people are calling them names and saying they are trying to take over our country. Well, we took over this country that belonged to the Natives. So we have no room to talk about someone trying to take over a place.
They are humans! They are trying to live just like us. People left Europe and Germany looking for a better life. Mexicans are doing the same. So where do we get the nerve to crab about them, when we did it, too!
Jessie Cobian, Lincoln
Blood boils over Walters
In the middle of a nationwide discussion on the hot subject of illegal immigration, it makes my blood boil to read Ron Walters’ “In the wake of catastrophe” (LJS, Aug. 23) opinion that people are not to blame for their own plight.
While I agree that Hurricane Katrina and some of the resultant responses were tragic, I would also like to point out that the majority of the poor, oppressed people affected have had a much greater opportunity to better themselves than the Mexicans who risk death to illegally come here for a job of any kind. Funny thing is, people from New Orleans don’t have to worry about the Border Patrol, INS, deportation or dying of thirst in the desert to get these same jobs. When U.S. citizens won’t take responsibility for themselves and their families, it becomes very difficult to feel sorry for their “plight.”
Get off your butt, get a job, pay some taxes, and all of a sudden you will be happy that “conservative U.S. governments continuously cut welfare programs.”
Christopher Farabee, Hickman
More than one Dan Scott
Re: “Muffle those motorcycles.” My name is Dan Scott also. I own a “Harley” and also work on Harleys in my shop, Dano’s Custom Painting & Show Finishes, Lincoln. I am not the author of the letter printed in the Letters to the Editor column on Aug. 30. Thanks for clarifying my name.
Daniel D. Scott, Lincoln
Pluto’s not a planet. Boo!
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine …
What happened to Pluto?
I think Pluto shouldn’t be a dwarf planet. I learned Pluto as a planet, and now I have to learn it as a dwarf planet. Teachers have to find a new way to teach their kids. What are they going to say now?
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Non-fat yogurt?
Lexis Funk, Age 11, Lincoln
GOP makes me mad
I have to agree with Jack Ferrin’s response to the question of “What makes you mad?” (PhotoQ, Aug. 26) in regards to the Democratic leadership in this country. Any political party that opposes a fiasco like that in Iraq that has cost the United States one quarter of a trillion dollars since its beginning, when we were told by the powers that be that it would only cost $15 to $20 billion initially, and then it would pay for itself with oil, is definitely thinking only of itself.
Any party concerned with making sure that every American citizen (including Ferrin) will have adequate health care protection, a Social Security system that will be able to actually pay people when they retire, education opportunities for all our children and the rights that every one of us are guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States is certainly putting its agenda ahead of “what’s good for the country.”
I suggest that if Ferrin is mad at a party that “cares more about what’s best for themselves, their power and their party, rather than what’s best for the country” that perhaps he may be somewhat confused in his choice of which party “really makes his blood boil.”
Michael Gerhart, Lincoln