I was thinking about how the way things are labeled sounds like what they're not. That's why people are always confused about political terms. I know I always was when I went into the voting booth and tried to decipher exactly what I was voting for and if the wording meant what I thought it meant. It's important to get online and research each issue and candidate.
One such example is The Right To Work State. That's total bullshit. It's actually the right to control workers and prevent unionization so workers can't have a vocal advocacy organization.
Georgia is a Right To Work state that has stamped out most unions in our community. Violence broke out and people were injured or killed for demanding higher wages and better working conditions decades ago.
Another example being used to misinform people who aren't aware of the deeper issue is Religious Liberty. That's code talk for the base to unite and shun anyone who isn't of "our" religion. You know which one I'm talking about.
People started this extremism and became divided when they turned their backs on an influx of immigrants into our communities. People who go to church every Sunday and raise their children to follow in their ways have turned on immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their families.
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself ... " Leviticus 19:33-34
What really pisses me off is the fact that people are too ignorant to understand that the illegal immigrants migrated to our community in the 21st century because of corporations and to escape violence in their own countries. People are mad at brown people because they have flooded into our communities and send their kids to our schools and drive on our roads. They blame the immigrants for the rise in taxes and the cost of living and the fact that they aren't getting a raise again this year.
They don't realize that these people pay taxes into the system which is being funneled into our treasury every year to the tune of about twelve billion dollars a year. The illegal immigrants aren't ever able to access this money and if they are banned from entering America or living here, we will lose that much in taxes.
Don't get me started on immigrants. Just like I figured, when they clamped down on illegal immigrants, people went underground, and now there is a severe shortage in the farming industry, causing farmers to lose millions of dollars in waste. Crops are left rotting in the fields.
Don't get me started on immigrants. Just like I figured, when they clamped down on illegal immigrants, people went underground, and now there is a severe shortage in the farming industry, causing farmers to lose millions of dollars in waste. Crops are left rotting in the fields.
When the economy was booming before the great recession, employers posted signs at the Mexican-American border advertising jobs in the carpet industry in north Georgia. Thousands of people flooded into the community working in various jobs. They raised their kids, and bought homes, in the belief that they would be setting down roots and become a vital part of the country.
Today, you can notice a change in the area. There are lots of stores with signs out front advertising to the Hispanic community all over Dalton and Calhoun but there are not as many people from South America as there used to be.
I know of families who went back to their country voluntarily when their visas ran out. Their children had been raised in America and gone to school with American children and were fully assimilated. They faced a cultural shock when they went back to their parent's home country to live. A friend of mine, who told me about her friend and their family, said she got letters from them sometimes and the mother told her there weren't any stores nearby and it didn't matter anyway because nobody had any jobs or money to spend. It was heartbreaking.
Another family who came from England had to leave after their visas expired. They had established a business in America, which was very profitable, providing taxes which helped pay for government services but they still had to leave.
Another friend told me about a lady who came to America years ago, long before the rift of today. She described her South American friend as beautiful, vivacious, and interesting.
Georgia may be very much set in it's ways but we have visitors from all over the world and we used to have a reputation for great southern hospitality. I guess that was back when Christians really believed in following the good book and treating everybody with courtesy and respect. Well, not so much. We mustn't whitewash slavery in our attempt to honor our heritage and we must not accept the hateful racism of any race, color, or creed ever again.
When religion, be it Christianity or any other religion, is used to control people and separate them, it is not a godly religion. God is Love. How can God be black, or brown, or yellow, or white when he is omnipotent? How can God be love and yet hate anyone who's not a white Christian?
We can't afford to allow Religious Liberty to take control of America. That is an oxymoron. Either religion is free for all, or it is state run. Our forefather's came to America to get away from that.
AS ALWAYS
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