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Jetton: Lazy Missourians could learn from MexicansFriday, February 22, 2008JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A lot of lazy Missourians, including many in Southeast Missouri, could benefit from adopting the work ethic of Mexican immigrants, House Speaker Rod Jetton said Thursday. Jetton, speaking to publishers, editors and reporters at the Missouri Governor's Mansion, made an example of Wayne County residents in his 156th Missouri House District. In 2004, an employer who considered moving to Wayne County, which had one of the highest unemployment rates in the state at the time, was able to attract only three applicants, Jetton said. The jobs weren't great -- the pay was about $8 an hour -- but the chance to get off government assistance should have been attractive, he said. "We have a shortage of people who want to go out and bust their tails and do the jobs," Jetton said. Jetton made his remarks when asked about his statement made to Republicans in Springfield, Mo., that he would like to "trade some of our people for some of the Mexicans who work so hard." He didn't back away from that remark. "If we can find a way to trade them, I would trade them in a heartbeat," Jetton said. The statements from Jetton spiced discussions of illegal immigration and the steps Missouri can take to combat the flow of illegal immigrants into the state. He and other legislative leaders speaking as part of the Missouri Press Association/Associated Press Day at the Capitol said the issue is one of their top priorities for this year's legislative session. More than half a dozen bills have been filed to restrict state benefits for people in the U.S. illegally. The bills would deny driver's licenses, public assistance and scholarships to illegal immigrants and penalize employers who knowingly hire illegals. Democrats are focusing on the employer provisions, said House Minority Leader Paul LaVota, D-Independence. He called some of the measures "purely political," such as the one denying driver's licenses. Missouri already denies driver's licenses to illegal aliens, he said. But the proposals on driver's licenses, including one filed by state Sen. Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to attempt to obtain a Missouri driver's license. The driver's license proposal will be rolled into a far-reaching bill touching all aspects of the issue, said Crowell, who chairs the Senate Pensions, Veterans Affairs and General Laws Committee that is handling the measures. The committee will add several items to a bill requiring employers to verify that their workers are not in the U.S. illegally, filed by Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, Crowell said. Rupp's measure denies tax credits to companies that employ illegal aliens and fines companies that knowingly employ illegal aliens on projects supported by tax credits. The measure also bars illegal aliens from public universities and denies public assistance to immigrants until their right to be in the U.S. is verified. Another measure that will be added will be a directive that the Missouri State Highway Patrol train troopers in federal immigration law and make inquiries about the immigration status of people they arrest. "You have got to take care of the incentives for why illegal immigrants are moving to Missouri," Crowell said. The Missouri Legislature must act on illegal immigration because it has become too big of a problem, Jetton said. Federal agencies "are not doing anything, so we are looking at what we need to do in our state." 335-6611 extension 126 Have a comment? Log on to semissourian.com/today Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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I think ROD JETTON should know all about LAZY he speeks from experaince!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't seen much change that he promised to.Guess he forgot about Bollinger County.
this story realy hits me hard we at dana corp was not lazy we lost are jobs to mexicans because they will work for nothing we did the work without defects but they are always having defects which could cause wrecks and deaths to americains
I think it took a set of steel testicles to have Jetton say what we have all been thinking for years. People living off the teat of Momma sow government is a drain on all of us people who get up every morning and go to work. Jetton needs to help us get rid of food stamps, Medicaid, and project housing and force these brood mares and these no account men who lay with them to get a job or get the hell out.
I will admit that more people should try to get a job when an employer comes to an area and they are on assistance, but lets look at the other side of that coin. How on earth does a person even afford to put gas in their car(s) at 8 dollars an hour? This also goes for those who are working (for 8 dollars an hour) I don't know how these folks make it!
At 8 dollars an hour that $320 a week before taxes, after Uncle Sam and the state of Missouri get through with you,
you will be lucky to clear $220, for only very basic housing you must set aside at least 100 dollars of that, leaving 120 to buy gas (3 dollars a gallon, food to eat, fuel to heat the house, insurance on the car, clothing to wear etc). Lets face it, the number do not add up! Something's got to give!
This type of statement is what the republicans intended all along, drive the american labor market down to the standards of mexico and china. Cheap Labor work for nothing, this type of labor market is why so many people just say the heck with it because they can never get ahead. Have you seen some of these buildings the mexican labor have built here, after they are done the american labor has to come in and nearly start all over again and replace what the mexicans built. American (Skilled) Labor is the best and will remain the best when it comes to craftsmanship, knowledge, and training. Pay a man a decent wage for a decent days work. $8.00 dollars per hour give me a break what a joke how can you provide and raise a family on this. Mr Jetton can you live on this type of wage?
If someone gets the maximum, $185, in Food Assistance benefits per month... and then take a job paying $8/hr (300 per week)... their FAB goes down to $80 per month.
People are punished for getting a job. Until we fix the flaw with our system, we should stop expecting people to work, when we punish them for doing so.
ROD JETTON FOR PRESIDENT!
Some math for you Older Eagle:
$300/week = about $1200.00 a month
FAB goes down $80.00
Monthly income before job: $185.00
Monthly income with job and reduced FAB: $1305.00
Yeah, that's really being punished there. Those poor people. I can see why you'd really rather sit at home on your butt than get up and work and actually bring home more income for your family.
They are importing Mexicans to Wayne County? Build a fence around the county! Looks like Jetton supports the North American Union and I am certain the Mexicans will travel here via the NAFTA Super Highway.
Before you blame all the nation's problems on the Bush administration, I remember Bill Clinton taking the Long Beach, California Naval Station away from the U.S. Navy and giving it the Chinese so they could unload all the Chinese cargo ships with Wal-Mart merchandise aboard. I believe Hillary was on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors at the time.
This guy Jetton is a total tool. He is the same hillbilly that was making catcalls during a speech by another politician wasnt he? Not pointing anyone out but....."we at dana corp was not lazy" and where is your punctuation? Stop blaming Mexicans, maybe it's obvious why you were let go. Down with the Tool!
Sounds like Jetton has been working with Mr. Cooper!
I can't deny that the "system" has problems - but why don't we work on the "system" instead of importing more people who haven't paid into the system to drain it even more.
For starters - drug testing for all welfare recipients. Next - government work programs instead of free handouts. My grandfather helped build several of our state highways in this area under government work programs. Several of our national parks were built the same way.
Instead of free handouts - how about offering incentives to employers who will hire welfare recipients. There are lot of alternatives that folks really haven't looked at as opposed to just giving folks a free ride. Why would someone want to work when they can get everything handed to them & stay home watching Oprah all day.
Sad thing is - I've known people who weren't able to work that couldn't get money & also known people who were physically able to work that were sitting home on their cans all day that were getting all kinds of money.
Looks like most everyone missed the point:
Who better to judge "lazy Missourians" than our elected officials. Jetton , along with our other OVERPAID, UNDERACHIEVING civil servants are experts on this subject since they live the part.
Jettons not afraid of work,,,,Im sure he could lay down and get in a nap while the rest of us do it!!!!!!!!!
Rod Jetton,, what a mouth,, this guy hasn't done squat in his entire life that requires work... Bollinger county Missouri has to be one of he poorest places in Missouri,, there is nothing there... These polititians keep making those poor folks promises to get elected and when they do all they do is line their own pockets and sneer at the very ones that elected them...
It sounds like most people making comments missed the entire point! We do have a lot of lazy people who don't try to work period! They live in the land of opportunity, but they don't want to take advantage of any opportunity, they want a freebie from the government.
The comments I've read indicate one common idea, people expect someone else to solve problems. Many of you complain about a politician, but don't vote, nor do you have knowledge to make a wise vote. If you want real change in your life don't wait for someone to do it. Take care of yourself. Go where jobs are. Can't get a better job? Perhaps you didn't learn in school, too lazy or didn't care. It comes home to roost for you. I was the same way. But I went back to school and started over. It's hard, but most can do it. Make your own life better. Until then don't show how ignorant you are in public places. Now you can go back to Oprah, your cigarettes, lottery tickets, and straighten your camo hat.
Truth hurts don't it
I'll donate to the fund to send ROD to MEXICO aslong as it's a oneway trip!!!!!!!!!! He is a true pollition and full of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember This guy is some political genius. He convinced the other brain, Jason Crowell, to slip him $30,000 for a political consultant fee. If this guys had any credibility their statements would carry more weight.
First of all before the Speaker of the House gets all excited about the evils of government assistance perhaps he should fess up to the fact that the birth of his first child was paid for by medicade.
Now for the substance of trying to stop hiring illegal immigrants you don't just punish those getting state tax credits you punish all employers who employ someone who is here illegally. I can certainly think of a business or two in Cape that has more than a couple of illegal immigrants working for them. If anyone actually wants to enforce the laws that are there it isn't that hard to find them.
Speaker Jetton is just saying what most hard working people actually think. Have you ever wondered why there are jobs available for Mexicans in our area in the first place? Law of supply and demand dictates that if there were plenty of people already here willing to do the job, Mexicans would go elsewhere to seek work.
I think Jetton's commets were aimed at those who would rather remain on government assistance than get a job, not those who unfortunately lost their jobs.
I would love to spend the day debating, but guess what? I have to get to work!
Wow, the Internet is obviously a dangerous place and this is proof of it. The truth of the matter is, Hispanic workers tend to work harder and are more dependable than most Americans. I'm in Property Management and I much prefer Hispanic workers over Caucasians any day simply because it seems that Blacks and Whites are truly lazy. Read into his comments for what you want, but He speaks the truth. Hispanics do the work, yes, at a much cheaper rate, but they still do the work. Remember folks, not every hispanic is illegal, not every black person is ghetto and not every white person is a member of the KKK. I've read too many comments on here and most of the posters on here suffer from a disease of stereotyping people. Amazing how these people (Hispanics) do jobs that most others (Americans) won't do because of pay, but the last time I checked, money is money. With that said, we have too many Americans (or in this case Bollinger Countians) who prefer to have the Government give them a handout than work for a living. Let's change the national emblem from the Eagle to a Sow, everyone grab a teat and start to suck.
$8 times 40 hours is $320 a week.
Then take out all the payroll taxes.
I don't know what these people were drawing
in aid, but they might be making less, or
not enough more to economically justify
the switch. It is not uncommon for someone
on aid to need to avoid making too much, because their employer does not provide health insurance, and if they make a couple dollars more, they cross the threshold and lose Medicaid.
It might be that the people are lazy. Or it
might be that they are making a smart economic decision because that the wage is too low at today's
cost of living to transition off the aid.
I remember when I first got out of college and had moved to Howell County and was looking for a job. I went to the Employment Office, dressed professionally and with my resume in hand. When I walked in, I was surprised to see a crowd of people in the waiting area that looked like they had just rolled out of bed and not combed there hair or taken a bath in days. I remember one guy in army pants but not wearing a shirt at all. I was amazed! I sat down to wait for them to call my name and an older lady (toothless in front with a tornado hair style) who was sitting across from me. She leaned forward and said in a whisper, "Honey, if you come in here dressed like that, they will put you to work." I just told her "That is what I am hoping they do." I was set up for an interview that afternoon and hired for a good job 2 days later. When I told the lady at the Employment Office about my experience in the waiting area she said that the Unemployment problem in the area wasn't because of lack of jobs, but lack of a work ethic."
Whoops! Jetton oughta watch what he says!
homerdean...am I mistaken or was Rod Jetton a Marine? By your description that doesn't require work??
Rod Jetton,
Will someone please wipe Rod's bottom and let him smell it! It still sticks as bad as when he was a boy in Marble Hill.
Since he thinks he's so grand and worth so much. Let's tread him!
Shame on you Rod. For you to claim to be a Christian and say remarks like this you should never be in office again.
Mexicans are good for businesses because they will work for next to nothing. So called, "lazy Missourians" need more money to pay the high taxes that Jetton imposes on his constituents. I think he is speaking out of his ***.
BTW, Jetton's comments are not Bush's fault. Jetton can act like an *** all by himself. Remember the crap he pulled against Lipke? Talk about stabbing your buddy in the back! Maybe he learned that from his illegal Mexican workers...
Rod, you know that there is such a thing as a lazy Mexican. Too lazy to file for citizenship, too lazy to learn English, too lazy to work...
Don't get me wrong, there are several hardworking Mexicans. Just like there are several hard working Missourians. Just don't tick off the people who can actually vote you back into office...
I just read over those comments, I shouldn't have said the stuff that I am sorry. When I get frustrated with bigots like Jetton, I tend to match him in his bigotry. I should know that fight bigotry by not catering to it.
I apologize to anyone on here who is hispanic and who was offended by my comments.
Actually the "lazy" Mexicans are not likely to ever make enough of an effort to ever come to the United States. The vast majority of immigrants are far harder working and far more focused on improving their families lives than their counterparts back home. So really Jetton and most of the posters here don't seem to get that they are comparing the absolute bottom of the American labor pool against roughly the middle of the Mexican labor pool. It is silly to stack up the bottom 5% of Americans in work ethic against the top 50% of Mexicans.
Depending on the job $8 an hour can be alright for easy labor tasks (retail, low level office work) and totally unacceptable for hard labor tasks (slaughterhouse jobs, logging, etc). Even the illegal immigrants with no English skills will turn up their nose at $8 an hour for the hard physical labor tasks, since usually they can find equivalent jobs that pay them $10-$12 for hard physical labor(from what I understand $10 an hour is the going rate for a typically illegal day laborer)
I think Rod made a mistake in saying what he said (the way he said it). But I do agree he made a good point. There are those living on state aide when they are perfectly capable of working. And I saw some really good suggestions on here. ShowMeGuy, grizzi, Mo_outdoorgirl, good comments. I also think if people are on state aide it should be after the clean-random drug test.
Linda, from SEMO,
Yet if you had made the same comment about blacks. You be fired on the spot. Rod uses his mouth to shoot off things he don't think about. He's a spoiled kid from Bollinger County. Which he has forgotten about. Again there are dead beats in every group. But to make the kind of comment he made he should resign now.
Why don't we make a trade? Keep the hard working mexican immagrits here and send the bums on state aide to Mexico.
If one compares working at minimum wage or even $8 an hour, while paying income taxes, health insurance, groceries, and actual housing costs to losing Medicaid, low-rent/subsidized housing, food stamps, some utility-bill help, EIC...one might understand why our welfare system seems preferable to employment for some people.
Having lived/worked in NM, and having lived in South Texas for several winters, plus having spent quite a bit of time in non-tourist Mexico areas, this is what we discovered: many Mexican workers do appear to have a better work ethic than many Americans...until they (many of them, at any rate) become "Americanized." After that (and sometimes before), there is little or no comparison. We've been bombarded in the past by companies who have defended hiring illegal immigrants because Americans will not do whatever the "work" is. Actually, it seems to boil down to the fact that Americans will not do the "tough jobs" for minimum wage or less that those employers pay the illegals.
I must state that for the most part I admire the Mexicans I have met and become friends with, both in their country and this one. While working for the U of I, a co-worker and I discovered that our part-time janitor, who was a Mexican-American student, was living in his CAR in order to put himself through the University (he succeeded, but he was so embarrassed that we found out, & so awed that we admired him for it). However, I have never met any illegals, so can't comment on them.
As for Rod Jetton: the more intelligent of Bollinger County's citizens are relieved that this is his last term.
Tom_Grey, your comment was classless.
I agree Rod, but we can't all work for Jason Crowell. Or can we???
Tigerfan87...what was classless about my comment?
If you need people to work for you, get the darn criminals out of the jails/prisons and make them earn their stay!!! They are also living off of the taxpayers!!!!
Jetton needs to apologize for his statements. We should also demand that Crowell distance himself as well, and condemn Jetton's statements or we will work , to make sure he (Crowell) does not get reelected.
Our best way to get back at Jetton is demand that Crowell no longer uses Jetton's Common Sense Conservative Consulting business.
Who pays Jetton's salary and medical insurance? We do, this makes Jetton the biggest welfare recipient in his district!
http://mobushwhacker.bravejournal.com/en...
The illegals are ruining our nation. Just today an illegal with an unknown name She gave a false one when arrested Killed 4 children when she ran a stop light. She was driving without a license. http://www.charter.net/news/news_reader....
The illegals are robbing our nation and our children of the inheritance our forfathers worked so hard to give us. OUr middle class lives. Rod Jetton needs to be run out of southeast Missouri on a rail.
Jetton is on our payroll and since he prefers foreigners over Americans I suggest we fire him. I am for starting impeachment or whatever is necessary to have this man removed from office immediately. It is time our representatives remember the American people are their boss and they are our public servants not the other way around. Jetton you made a lot of enemies today and immediate action is being taking.
Jetton is a complete idiot. Every time he opens his mouth it's another embarassment. You want to get people off aid and take lousy paying jobs? Guarantee them health insurance if they do. Jetton is such a moron. I'm sure he's never worked one of those kinds of jobs, to see how the employees are treated like dirt, with now say in their scheduling, getting fired for wanting to take vacation time, and being replaced at any time. All with no benefits whatsoever. I truly wish that fool would take a long walk and never come back.
Number one Bollinger County remains one of the poorest counties in Missouri and does not want any industry or other jobs to come in. Yet they whine about having to drive thirty wiles to and from work. Jetton you are one to talk about lazy United States citizens, you have never worked for anything in your life. Who is your daddy son? Where did the money come from? I don't know anything good that came out of this statement except to get you out of office and it looks like there are plenty who will be glad to contribute to your one way trip to Mexico without your stolen money that came from the people of Missouri who paid your unearned salary for too long. I have been a working Missourian since I was fifteen and a half. I am wanting my part of your salary back along with many others I have paid for not doing their job. No it isn't a Bush thing it is the citizens of this state and country who have fallen down to the level of believing and trusting all of the government officials we have.It is time to make changes and that is going to take many of us working together to make this loud and clear. We are willing and able to work we want fair paying jobs we want taxes to go down so that we are not supporting every other government in the world or those taxes to go to the military bases that have been shut down by Bill Clinton the military a fair and decent paying job along with the police and fire department people having fair pay for their jobs to protect us. Then we want the lobbyists to be outlawed and the Mexicans and their drugs to go back to Mexico. without the drugging of or society we would have a much better educated and stronger workforce. But if drug testing is for all employees then let it be that all employees government CEO's uper management long time employees down to the kids who are just getting started. And make it random and mandatory for all of these people no matter how much they can pay to ignore the drug test. But lets get the drugs out of this country or legalize them so the 'eveil' is not there to tempt. We have to educate every one of our children and help those children who are helpless about their parent(s) plight who do not have guidance at home in staying away for the bad things that can endanger them. The Mexicans make a killing off of us in the drug trade and we do not have a war on drugs any more than we have a war on illegal immigration. If they came here and follow the rules of immigration great if they don't there are so many ways we can track these people after they are here so lets be adults and do the right things for the good of our country.
Provided it's accurate, I think Tom Grey's comment is right on the money.
Saying Jetton's first child was paid for by Medicaid. Totally uncalled for. Agree or disagree with him, makes no difference to me. But take an opinion without the spite. Just trying to bring some respect to the conversation.
I think Jetton is telling it the way it is. I can pick out the Democrats and union members posts easily.
$8 an hour is not a living wage for anyone but also if you quit high school and did not take advantage of opportunities what else do you expect. Don't come to me at age 25 with the poor ol' me attitude because you made your own bed. If you can't do better than $8 you have problems.
I have 4 Hispanics working for me. They are on the site 30 minutes before work and are ready to go. I have 2 Americans that are the same way and two young guys that are just warm bodies so far.
Every year I go through about 30 worthless Americans. If they are young and in good shape they can't wake up or are just lazy. I get some that have a gut hanging 8 inches over their belt and they can't work 10 minutes without being worn out. Many last about 5 days and quit.
I start inexperienced workers at 10 per hr. construction experience 12.50, and if you know how to do our work 18 and up to start. If you are good and you want to try you will get 15 after 2 weeks on the job.
We do hard work but these people will walk away and leave all that on the table then gripe that Hispanics are working in Cape.
If you don't want the lazy voting have a Jerry Springer marathon on election day.
tiger
If Jetton's child's birth was paid by Medicaid it IS pertinent to the article as he has himself received aid from the government.
Wayne County would gladly trade Rod Jetton in a heartbeat, as well!!!
Tom Grey's comment would only be pertinent IF Ron Jetton was sitting on his *** at honme and didn't have a job while Medicaid paid for the birth of his first child/ As a working taxpayer, I have no problem helping a family if an effort is being made to work. My wife and I received WIC for s short period of time (six months) after she lost her job. Once she was reemployed we never went back to extend it because we didnt need it.
As a conservative, I struggled a great deal with the idea of receiving WIC, and finally came to terms with it when I realized that I was working and having taxes held out of my check and SOMEONE was going to get it---might as well get a return on my investment.
I would gladly trade several thousand hard working motivated Hispanic people for several thousand deadbeats who only take from society. People living off the teat of Momma sow government is a drain on all of us people who get up every morning and go to work. Jetton needs to help us reduce the number of people on food stamps, Medicaid, and project housing and force these brood mares and these no account men who lay with them to get a job or get the hell out.
Ok, so here goes. First of all, I'd just like to say that I love my country, and am willing to share it with anyone who feels the same. If illegal immigrants fall under that category, then more power to them. What this country needs is a little more support in matters like these, instead of greasy politicians who stand up on their pedestals, thinking that they are untouchable, and looking and talking down to the "little" people like myself. Don't get me wrong. There are lazy people in America. They also reside in every other country from A to Z. Why are we singled out like that? Why doesn't Mr. Jetton include other countries in his brilliant analysis of our work ethic? Not only other countries, but other states as well.
Here's the kicker. I've been called a lot of names in my life. I'd list them but quite a few are very inappropriate. But I don't mind being called any name, save one. I was called "lazy" the other day by a co-worker. I walked up to him, and said, "You're free to call me any name in the book. But if you ever call me that again, I will take action." This name or stereotype, as I like to call it, is degrading, insulting and just plain wrong. What kind of a man can talk this way about his fellow Americans? Go over to Iraq, Mr. Jetton. Tell the men and women, that are being forced to make your nights sleep a peaceful one, that they are just too lazy, and that'd you gladly trade Hispanics for their services and see what kind of response you get.
As I read this story, I actually can visualize the crumbling of human trust and loyalty in one another. When one of our own thinks we are lazy, then that's when it has gotten bad. I have a better idea, Mr. Jetton. How about YOU go to Mexico and work some kind of construction job, or whatever it is you think you are capable of doing. And if you make it, only then will I say that you have learned your lesson, and now know the meaning of the value of human loyalty to his brothers. In olden days, your statements would have made you a traitor to your country. Think about that. I'll have you know, that I work over 60 hours a week, pulling two jobs and I still manage to squeak by. This says nothing for my fellow anti-Jettons, but for me its everything. For all of you who agree with Jetton: who's to say he wouldn't want to replace all of us? Apparently we don't matter to him. I actually think Hispanics are hard-working. Very much so indeed. But when I see that hard-working single mother of two pulling over 40 hours a week, trying to provide: bread, (of which the price has risen), milk, (more price hikes), gas (3.00+) and pretty much every other essential thing we humans need, I get a little teary-eyed. I mean, come on man! Prices are skyrocketing! How can any one be lazy in times like these? If they are they have every right to be! Eventually we will all no longer be able to afford anything! I ask you this Mr. Jetton. Are you trying to fire up Missourians, motivating them to work and make money to accommodate for the price to live? How much will oxygen cost in the future, if there will be any left at all. Lazy, Mr. Jetton? No. Not this taxpayer. I will work until I die. And I look foward to that day, when I no longer have to deliver the paper that has your sadistic comments written on the front of it. By the way, if you go to Mexico, don't drink the water. Take some good ole 2.00 bottle of Aquafina with you.
Isn't Jetton the guy who ran off the road talking on his cell phone?
Bravo Tom Grey! It's time to let the chips fall where they may. There's a lot of the pot calling the kettle black with this one.
Four kids killed in a wreck in Minnesota caused by an illegal immigrant from Mexico. They're just murdering the children that Americans are too lazy to murder, right Congressman Jetton?
http://www.grandforksherald.com/ap/index...
This invasion from Mexico is hostile. It is irredentist. They have territorial ambitions. Google Aztlan. If idiots like Jetton are too stupid to see that, they need to be replaced. If you're willing to give your country away, there are plenty of people who are more than willing to take it from you. And that's not even addressing all the other problems they're causing, even if they were coming here with good intentions. Over-population, closing hospitals, over-crowded schools, crime, drunk driving incidents, lower wages, and the age of consent in Mexico is 12, and that's more of a suggestion than a law, so you have to watch your daughters around these primitives. It's a mess, and we need secured borders NOW.
I'm sorry but I have to agree with Mr. Jetton.
The new modo of this country is, "ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY, BUT WHAT THE COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU".
I'm tired of all wellfair reciepients! Let us get rid of government assistance all together, then we'll eliminate poverty. People will be forced to work.
Also, There's nothing more disturbing than people claiming their disabled because they're too fat!
One more thing before I leave. I definately am voting for Barrack Obama.
Under his plan the government (tax payers) is going to pay for everyone. If thats the case, I'm going to retire at 34 and just let the governement take care of me too. -- Just like all the other lazy highschool drop-out excuse makers, teenage mothers, dope addits, etc... Why should I have to pick up the tab for someone else's lazyness??????
I went down the right path, got a college degree and a well paying job, but the first words that come out of my mouth if Obama or Clintin is elected president will be, "I QUIT!"
Why Not??? I have "hope for change"
Change what??? Into a socialist state?????????
Obama is very magnetic but lacks substance.
Reporter: "How will you secure the border"
Obama: "Yes We Will"
Reporter: "How do you plan to help the economy?"
Obama: "Yes We Can."
Reporter: "Mr. Obama, my oil light is on my car is running rough"
Obama: "Change you can believe in".
Reporter: "Like an oil change"
Obama: "Yes we can, yes we will, change."
All shine and no substance.
If you are going to talk like an intellectual, please, at least learn to spell.
Rod Jetton continue to say what you think should be said.
I work for less than $8 an hour in Bollinger county and I don't appreciate being called lazy by some other Bollinger county person no matter what their title is. If he likes Mexicans so well than maybe he should pack up and move to Mexico.
GOD BLESS AMERICA !
Does he mean like not paying taxes???
Is their way of doing things so commendable that the politician wants us to rebuild our country into the examples of the countries that the illegal invaders left???
Is this why they wanted my children killed and out of the way for the Revolutionaries in the governments preferred illegal residence???
Remember Zero Population Growth?
Just who are these Revolutionaries in the government working for?????
You take the mindset of a just graduated 18 year old young man and that of a just crossed the border 18 year old mexican. You will find that the 18 year old mexican will outwork the 18 year old american 10 to 1. I have literally seen them work in a crew of 6 tearing off a roof and putting a new one back on in under 6 hours. The 18 year old american has his plate too full with things like playstation and skateboarding than to actually get out there and work for his dinner. I have had the experience of knowing how people are who just get into the lifestyle that the government is there to take care of them without having to get off the couch. Those people are pathetic human beings whose worthiness is right up there with panhandlers. If you can only get 3 people to apply for $8 a hour jobs then there must be a great demand for a furniture store in Marble Hill selling couch's.
Mosely
Obama has laid out comprehensive plans for all the items you mention. Stop repeating what you hear and verify it. What you state is completely untrue.
As for No DIsclosure. Obviously you have no class and you are looking for slaves. Someone who will work for nothing or next to nothing that you do not have to pay workers comp and taxes on so you can make more money. You and those like you seek to destroy the American middle class and create a class of servants much like what is going on in California. You are traitor of the highest order and she be immediately deported to Mexico.
Traitor Rod Jetton I predict you will soon be employed!
Mosely
Obama has laid out comprehensive plans for all the items you mention. Stop repeating what you hear and verify it. What you state is completely untrue.
As for No DIsclosure. Obviously you have no class and you are looking for slaves. Someone who will work for nothing or next to nothing that you do not have to pay workers comp and taxes on so you can make more money. You and those like you seek to destroy the American middle class and create a class of servants much like what is going on in California. You are traitor of the highest order and she be immediately deported to Mexico.
Traitor Rod Jetton I predict you will soon be unemployed!
Also when will you be repaying the taxpayers for the birth of your first child??
After teaching for 30 years in several states, I can tell you first hand what is coming up through the pipes. Children are being raised in so many homes to stay out of the way. Parent(s) are not taking an interest in their children's social, emotional, or academic growth. No matter the income level, 80% of today's kids are ignored in some form by their parent(s). Kids are allowed too many vices/rights they are too young to handle.
Talk to business owners about the quality of their staff. How hard is it to get and keep good, hardworking, qualified workers on the payroll? Yes, I have worked with many hardworking Mexicans adults. I also work with many dependable, trustworthy senior citizens.
It is the younger generation that has developed the "I don't have to",and "It'll get done when it gets done" mentality. They are late to work, don't always show up nor call their employer or child's school when necessary. They lie or make up stupid stories to cover themselves.
These people are passing their work and life ethics on to their children. One thing about the younger kids, no matter what their parents say, the kids will always tell the truth. I love catching parents in a lie!
Enter the children of any immigrants-Mexican, Asian, Slovians, no preference. Add these kids to the American mix, and what do you have? That's right, more useless, lazy, clueless young adults. Until Americans can fix the wrongs with our youth of today, we will continue to ruin those who enter it.
I did not say ALL of today's younger generation function this way. Unfortunately their numbers are far too low to combat the ones that do.
While I agree with many of the previous posts with regard to U.S. citizens who refuse to get off their hind ends and get a job, and have to (sadly) admit that much of what trixie3 said of our younger generation is too often true, I do not believe that the hiring of ILLEGAL laborers is the answer.
Though many illegal immigrants currently living in this country are, in fact, hardworking people, they are also a drain on taxpayer provided services and, because they agree to lower wages than most U.S. citizens can accept, they tend to lower the wages of ALL who are employed in those occupations.
Employers often exploit illegals, requiring them to work overtime without compensation or refuse to pay them at all (as in the case of some day laborers), they sometimes engage in sexual harassment, or threaten to call ICE if illegals do not do as they say. If the threat of deportation is constantly held over your head, you would certainly become the model employee too!
While illegal immigrants are not SUPPOSED to receive welfare, food stamps or medicaid, their U.S. born "citizen" children DO qualify for such services, and, as their numbers are growing by the thousands every day, the U.S. taxpayer is required to pay the cost. We also pay for increased law enforcement for their safety and protection, for their children's education, the cost of emergency room services, and for incarceration costs of criminal aliens. Remember that most of our current illegal population lack the skills or education to obtain a high paying position, and because of this, pay little in the way of taxes.
U.S. citizens are oftentimes victims of identity theft at the hands of illegals. Our roads and highways are becoming more dangerous because of unlicensed, uninsured drivers, many of whom are illegal aliens. Not everyone crossing our borders is here to work - illegals in great numbers are joining gangs, molesting and raping our children, driving drunk, and murdering our citizens. Don't we have enough gang members, perverts, drunk drivers, etc., already?
Perhaps our elected officials should concentrate on education, job training, and drug testing for all welfare recipients rather than think of ways to exchange more handouts for votes. Maybe they should force U.S. citizens to EARN their welfare...maybe 40 hours a week of cleaning restrooms in government and public offices or cleaning trash from our parks and roadways will give them the incentive they need to give off their duffs and get a job.
In the meantime, politicans like Rod Jetton need to climb off of their high horse and learn that insulting your constitutents does little to solve the problem, it only sends you to the unemployment office.
For those of you who do vote,remember to vote Jetton's butt out of Office! Apparently he has forgotten where he came from and who helped put him in office!!
For those of you who don't vote, you have no right to complain at all, and shame on you!
I've lived in Bollinger county for a number of years and it is a poor community. Yet in all the years I lived there not once did I ever meet a "lazy" person! Everyone might not work and some might get state aid but that does not make them lazy!! These "lazy" people as Jetton calls them are the ones that will stop whatever it is that they are doing to help a neighbor in need or even a stranger in need for that matter. If a tragedy strikes someone the whole TOWN rallies around that family to make sure that the emotional and Financial support is there. I know this because I speak from experiance. I lost my husband and everything I owned in 2006 and the whole town rallied around me for support. Complete stangers where there offering a shoulder to cry on or what ever was needed. They never questioned or said well maybe I can. NO, it was here hun this is for your family and God Bless you!
I would rather live in a community like Bollinger County than in one like Cape County where no one cares about anyone else but themselves. Correction not all cape county residents are like that but the majority of them are!
And those "LAZY" residents as Jetton calls them will loose the only insurance they have if they do go to work making that $8.00 an hour job. There is no incentive to go to work! Thanks to Governor Blunt!
I say let's vote the BUM out of office and replace him with a LEGAL immigrant! See how he likes being replaced by a "hardworking" person who came here from another country. Perhaps a LEGAL immigrant who's interested in representing the people will do a better job than the BUM who's currently in that office. Maybe he/she would even give some of their fat-cat salary to their communities, seeing as how these immigrants are supposed to be happy working harder for less pay and benefits.
This sounds like a lot of talk from one of the Revolutionaries in the government that have never kept their word on the enforcement part of any immigration bill in the past.
I suppose they did work hard with the last fraudulent fence bill they past at an opportune time to throw us all off their trail.
Dear Speaker Jetton:
In regards to your love affair with Mexico and their "hard working invaders", please be advised that the following list of items should be self-evident to most people. However, since they have escaped your attention, here they are for your education:
* In 1848, The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo was ratified by both the U.S. and Mexican Congresses. That Treaty ended any and all claims Mexico had to land now a part of the United States.
* Native American Indians were the original owners of the American southwest. Were there were any valid property rights claims concerning that land, such rights would belong to Native American Indians, not Mexicans.
* America is a sovereign nation, totally independent of Mexico. It has been that way for over 200 years. We intend to keep it that way.
* In America, Mexico is considered a foreign nation and Spanish is a foreign language.
* America operates according to the rule of law, which applies to everyone. This is true whether one is brown, black, yellow, lily-white, red, or an exotic hybrid of lavender and green.
* Being hard-working and good hearted is commendable. But those qualities do NOT entitle anyone to enter America illegally.
* Bilingualism is cool--provided one of the languages is English. Literacy in only Mexican and Spanish es no bueno in America.
* Celebrating ones cultural heritage is perfectly fine--as long as it does not interfere with prompt and complete assimilation into American culture.
* Driving while loaded or drunk may be "macho" in Mexico. But in America, driving under the influence is considered stupid and criminal and is not tolerated, regardless of ones country of origin or cultural heritage.
* People here illegally are criminals, and as such, are most unwelcome. American citizens will fight to have such miscreants deported, regardless of whether or not families are involved. Illegal is illegal, family or not.
* Demanding that our borders be secured and that the law be enforced is the right of all American citizens and doing so does not make any one a racist or bigot.
* U.S. immigration laws exist to protect American citizens and others that are here legally, not to facilitate a foreigner's pursuit of a better life.
* Those who come to America must adjust to our culture and traditions. We have no obligation or desire to change in deference to foreign newcomers.
* Brown may be beautiful in Mexico. But in America, we are partial to colors that symbolize freedom under the rule of law. That would be Red, White and Blue.
As soon as you stop hugging illegal Mexican immigrants, kindly do something positive and helpful for your constituents, the citizens of the great state of Missouri. Keep in mind Missouri is about 1100 miles NORTH of Mexico, should you be confused.
Please remember that Jetton's will be term-limited after this year, thus can not run for re-election.
He has however; hand picked one of his Legislative District Assistants to run in his place and he is treasurer of her campaign.
Residents of Bollinger, Wayne & Madison counties do have a choice in '08, they can vote for Michael Winder.
Winder is a conservative Democrat who is pro-life and a pro-gun. He was given an "A" rating by the NRA and unlike Jetton, has campaigned as "The working man's candidate" which means he will be defending Missourians and trying to help them, instead of using them as a stepping stone for higher office and insulting them.
http://www.michaelwinder4staterep.com/
Please remember that Jetton will be term-limited after this year, thus can not run for re-election.
He has however; hand picked one of his Legislative District Assistants to run in his place and he is treasurer of her campaign.
Residents of Bollinger, Wayne & Madison counties do have a choice in '08, they can vote for Michael Winder.
Winder is a conservative Democrat who is pro-life and a pro-gun.
He was given an "A" rating by the NRA and unlike Jetton, has campaigned as "The working man's candidate" which means he will be defending Missourians and trying to help them, instead of using them as a stepping stone for higher office and insulting them.
http://www.michaelwinder4staterep.com/
If you stop ALL welfare, people will have to work or they will starve. This includes Mexicans. What are you going to do when the federal government goes bankrupt and there is no money?
Your House Speaker Rod Jetton has spoken; now get out there and be corporation slaves!
Missourians, as well as the rest of the citizens of the United States, have just heard a sample of their own future when the shelves throughout this country's grocery stores become bare due to Peak Oil and the coming Depression.
Immigration and Mexicans have very little to do with the issue and are not the real problem; those are "smoke an' mirrors" diversions which are produced and nurtured by the politicians to divide and conquer workers against each other so that they won't unite and turn on the real enemy, the owners of the mega corporations that rule this country, instead of hating each other (while hiding behind pleasantries or compliments) and settling for serfdom wages the filthy rich pays workers on farms and in factories.
By the majority of the comments displayed here, I see that it has worked. Wake up!
I am ashamed to admit I helped vote you into office.I am afraid to say you have gotten the big head and forgot where you came from, all of you sit in these comfortable chairs and try to make these rules or observation and comments about people you don't even know. Have you walked in their shoes? There are very hard working people out there that can't sit in comfortable chairs in suit and ties warm in the winter, cool in the summer they're out working 12 hrs. a day for MINIMUM WAGE. Well they should have went to college, some have and returned with degrees and there still no jobs available for them. Being a christian I will pray for you but, remember you won't always be in office and you may come back to this boil on the bottom of the United States Marble Hill. I believe you was raised here also.