Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2005

Well said
I'm so happy I'm going back to the UK soon.
Rob

I thought it was the other way where people from the US cross the border in
to Canada to get things like affordable health care.

Better, don't you mean?  {;^)

Brian

Better, don't you mean?  {;^)

Brian

"As great as"????
I sure wouldn't leave New Zealand to live in the USa!
My brother did emigrate to the US, but escaped to Canada within a year or so.

Regards,
Greg.P.

He probably intended "all the" to be read as "so many"??

Since when do you have to "sneak" across the Canadian/US border??

Roger,
   Just a question: how dumb do you have to be to respond to obvious
off-topic trolls?  You didn't even change the header.  Do you also respond
to unsolicited commercial e-mails to tell them you are not interested in
their product?  Do you listen to telemarketers?  Do you reply to junk mail?
Do you want to buy a bridge in Brooklyn?
   Thank you for doing your part in killing off this newsgroup.  I'm sure
everyone here appreciates it.

Paul A. Cutler III
Deputy Sheriff
*************
Weather Or No Go New Haven
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Mark,
   We don't have job stealing foreigners. The only foreigners that stole
anything were the early ones mostly from Europe and they specialized in
stealing land from the Indians. The Indians were originally foreigners too
coming over from Asia. There were no job opportunities when the Indians
arrived but being savages they were happy enough just killing animals and
each other for thousands of years. No one in Asia wanted them to come back
anyway. When the ice bridge melted the Asians had great parties with bon
fires and made silly faces and finger jesters at the Indians on the other
side of the growing gap of water. Americans have been ridiculed ever since.
The Indian's were very wise and most went south learning where to find every
hallucinogenic plant that grew on the continent, took up smoking and
exterminating as many species of animal as possible.
   The Europeans created the first jobs in America. These jobs were in the
real estate business trading almost worthless trinkets to the Indians for
land. It was soon discovered that it was quicker just to take the land and
shoot the Indians so new job types entered the market. These were
Trailblazing and Frontiersmanship. Prestigious names for land grabbing
Indian exterminators. Once the Indians were more or less run off the eastern
coast the wheels of industry and agriculture created so many jobs that more
and more foreigners were needed. There were never enough. Back then you were
only a foreigner until you got here. Then you were an American who was free
to steal land from the Indians and peruse happiness right up until someone
killed you.         There were so many jobs that the freedom loving people
of the new nation had to keep slaves or much work would go undone.
Eventually the contradiction of having slaves in the Land of the Free became
obvious to three or four people and they made a big fuss about it. More and
more thoughtful people said "Duhh....that's right, I never thought of it
that way" except for a number of folks in the southern portion of the nation
who had their own special accent. Having become inbred they embraced various
rationalistic strains of Calvinistic and fundamentalist Christianity that
were already corruption's of Christianity anyway. Hence they were unable to
distinguish right from wrong. (Today much of our leadership can trace their
roots back to these folks.) So it was necessary to have a Civil War to sort
things out. Foreigners were welcome to participate and shoot each other too.
The Civil War was the greatest undertaking ever made by a nation to destroy
itself. As we are still a nation the whole affair was a complete failure.
However the slaves were now free to become impoverished exploited workers
that could only be discriminated against. Plenty of menial jobs were
available because the war thinned out the ranks impoverished exploited
workers very effectively.
   Once again prosperity showed its face upon America. More and more
foreigners came over to steal land from the Indians.  The great western
expansion created many new jobs for foreigners especially the Chinese who
were very hard working and didn't eat much. The Railroads loved the Chinese
type of impoverished exploited worker and could never find enough of them.
Now in the event you could not find a job back then you could always go
west, steal some land from an Indian and be a farmer. Or you could sell
eggs, bacon, clothing or tools to miners at usurious 2005 prices back in the
1850's. Treacherous behavior and exploiting each other has long been an
American tradition. We learned how to do it from the Europeans as they were
experts. I expect they learned it from the Romans who really had it down
pat.
   As more and more people became descendants of Indian killing, land
grabbing, slave owning, war making Europeans and various other foreigners
folks began to think of anyone who was not born or inbred here as a
foreigner rather than a person who just lived in another country. This
naturally lead to lots of paperwork and waiting to get in for the new
arrival. We learned how to produce volumes of paper work from the Germans
who were extremely anal about detail and how to make it all utterly
confusing, redundant and useless from the British. To make matters worse we
used French Law in many situations to validate, authorized and execute
documentation. So now we have a bureaucracy that is demandingly anal,
confused, redundant  and elusive, but creates many un needed jobs for under
achievers and the less than brilliant. This why we have to put up so bonds
for everything as the French would always run off if there was a problem but
not as often without their money. Just like the French we figured no one was
good for his word even if he signed a contract. .
   It got out some time ago probably by a respected authority like Rush
Limbaugh that people were coming here to steal our jobs and now lots of
folks are all worked up about it. What really happened was that large
companies started giving jobs to people in other countries because it was
more economical. Americans wanted two days pay for one days work so they
could have enough to live on after handing over the unions cut, unfair taxes
and social insecurity. Even worse Americans workers would be upset if they
were impoverished or exploited and might complain if they had to say "would
you like fries with that" to often. Some of the jobs like the ones the
Chinese guys get today no one wants. Inhumane slavish working conditions are
okay for other people if we can get their cheap products but don't ask us to
do it.
   The folks from India and the Middle East have monopolized the
convenience store jobs and business. You don't hear any one complain about
this situation. Those jobs pay only minimum wage and you have to get robbed
and shot by rap singing gang members or drug addicts every now and then
while under surveillance by vigilante patriots in camouflage pants who can't
tell the difference between a Hindu shop keeper or an Islamic bomber.
   Many vigilante patriots in camouflage pants are now wandering around the
border with Old Mexico trying to stop the Mexicans from coming over to steal
our jobs. When the Mexicans steal a job in America where do they take it?
They never get caught taking any hot jobs back into Mexico. Most of the
Mexicans would love to live in Mexico but the country has been governed
vicious corrupt dope dealing monkeys for so long parts of it aren't fit for
humans anymore. President Fox is a monkey who's got his hands on lot of
bananas we don't know about. We understand this because the other monkeys in
control down there haven't killed him yet.
   We have professional vigilante patriots we call the Border Patrol who
are under funded, under manned and completely inept. Many new low paying
jobs for foreigners should be opening up guarding the boarders. It is
obvious that very little training or aptitude is needed to be a border
guard. Arriving Asian and Indian immigrants can fill the spots guarding the
Mexican border. The Mexicans who are already here can guard the Canadian
border to keep in any Americans who will be headed that way if the Right
Wing Republican Fundamentalist Christian Neocons are still running the
nation after the next election.
   Even if the current powers are still in place there will still be many
new jobs for people who would like to intimidate, ridicule, and persecute
gay people while working for the Department of Values, Ethics and
Normalization headed up by Jerry Falwell and Tom DeLay. Religious people of
all origins should have no problem coming together to promote bigotry and
hatred by bashing gays so there should be work for everyone.
   No one is stealing jobs that anyone wants at least not inside our
boarders. In any event getting paid less is not stealing someone's job its
being exploited. Its wide open for anyone wants to be or has no choice.
Bruce

Anyone know of a good mail order hobby shop for HO scale PARTS?

thanks