Expert witness, Summer, and Hypothetically
by Barry Bauer
By now you’ve probably heard about the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Part of their mission is to study the plight of migrant workers in America. Their expert witness, comedian Stephan Colbert. His total experience, he worked one 10-hour day picking vegetables to see for himself what migrant workers go through in the fields.
Is the subcommittee secretly trying to find out why migrant workers can work bent over all day long picking crops and Americans can’t? Is it something in their genes? Were they born bent over? What the hell is it?
Colbert made a joke out of the whole thing, but what did those representatives on the committee expect from a comedian?
Of course the migrant workers (a good number of them are probably illegal) aren’t coming here because they make less money or the opportunities aren’t better here than they are at home. They didn’t come here because somebody held a gun to their heads. Sad as it may be, they come here because their own country is a mess, and they’re much better off here.
So let’s stop calling it a “plight” unless you’re talking about what’s going on in their homeland.
As for green card migrants, nobody has a problem with them picking crops. It’s the Illegals who come here and then migrate into construction, restaurant kitchens, and lawn care, to name a few jobs. Please don’t tell me Americans won’t do these jobs. They only require a living wage.
All of this leads up to my problem so brace yourselves folks, it’s “what about me” time! As long as they’re holding silly hearings and not so surprising, coming off as being silly, I want them to convene hearings on something dear to my heart, just where in hell did summer go! I’m starting to sense that things go by faster as I get older but the committee won’t understand that. I’m really curious about who they’ll call this time as an “expert witness.” David Letterman?
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Speaking of summer, it seems like yesterday when we planted our garden and the seeds begin to pop out of the ground. And now, the garden is basically done for after providing us with fresh green beans, summer squash, peppers, tomatoes, and three near perfect pumpkins. None of them weighs anywhere near 1,592 lbs. In fact, the three of them might weigh 15 lbs. It’s getting time to pull up the tomato cages, pull the plants out of the ground and throw them on the compost pile, and then mow the rest.
We’ll have to wait until we’re done mowing for the year before we park the mowers in the shed and pile lawn chairs and whatever on top of them.
All of those lawn lights and ornaments we dragged out in the spring will have to be packed away until next spring when we’ll haul them all out and start all over again.
So between you and me, where did summer go?
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The idea of how to destroy a nation has been around for centuries. Apparently, this idea is now being directed at us. Every nation knows you can’t defeat the mightiest nation on Earth militarily, so how do they do it?
They send in a Trojan Horse.
What does that mean? Well, many politicians have offered the answer and what they’ve been saying is, “It’s the economy, stupid.” That’s right; we can be defeated from within through our economy.
We’ve already started giving our economy away by signing free trade agreements that are heavily one-sidedly in favor of other nations.
They’ve knock down a couple of financial towers that sent the economy into a recession. And we’ve been lured into a war in the Middle East that we’ll never win. War takes billions of dollars out of the economy.
They’ll recruit several politicians by donating to their election campaigns and when they get in office, they owe somebody other then the American voters. You say you’ve never heard of money under the table? It’s true that it happens; it doesn’t show up on the donor list they’re supposed to report.
Apparently the newly elected president isn’t the answer to our problems either, and the question still remains, is he Muslim or not? Was he born in the United States or not? Is he really the Manchurian Candidate? Is he the second coming of Christ? No matter what the answer is, he will also play a part. He’ll propose trillions of dollars of spending programs that when fully enacted, will destroy the economy.
This is just a hypothetical situation that runs around in my head but it’s interesting . . . isn’t it?
Vote your choice but don’t forget to vote next month. It’s your dime, folks.
Until the next time . . .