Deep in the heart of texas, good ole boy chatter....

[junker]

this is from Geo Ure's Urban survival site , the free daily commentary part...a very interesting couple of paragraphs from deep in the heart of texass only a few scant hundert miles from gw 'faux' ranch....and lookie here how he is playing

link
http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm

text ok to post...checked with him first. Other stuff on that page of real interest to those of crippled mind who follow the rigged market-world.

Extract follows is from saturdays (last) comments....see 2nd paragraph

Weekend

Hell Week Arrives

Not only were the jobs numbers a piece of crap on Friday, but the biggest PR nightmare of the Bush Administration is coming from one time Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. In his new book, he describes George Bush as "a blind man in a room full of deaf people." read the details at : http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1073280927272&p=1012571727088, but realize that the O'Neill slam is only one of the problems on the Bush platter next week. But the killer is that O'Neill says the Iraq war was in planning long before 9/11 - and that means it was a family vendetta/oil grab after all... (shocked or awed?)



I was sitting in the motel coffee shop this morning about 6 AM - and some of the local "good ole boys" were having their Saturday morning breakfast. "Damn Bush - I supported him all the way - hell, I even contributed money7 to him, but this (expletive deleted) with the illegal immigrants has gone too far..." He then told his compadres how he'd be writing to everyone on the planet about this and how he didn't take to it no how, no sir. The group at breakfast also expressed the fear that Hillary might run, but after listening to the local rap here about 100-miles from the Texas White House, you can almost smell the distrust in the air. And distrust is not something people in East Texas cotton to. A man's word here is considered his bond, and word quickly gets around about who's a good guy, and who's a bad 'un. So Bush will have growing resentment and fall out to that one, but the administration has obviously sold out to the corporatist's bottom line - if you want jobs in the US, bring in illegals, make them "legal" and they will fill in the jobs.



An example? The fellow who was driving the moving truck that brought our goods here was a nice Uzbekistan fellow - a degreed engineer (hydraulic) and the only job he could get when he arrived was in a hotel for $40 a day (10+ hours). Now, he's driving a semi for $0.35 a mile. I'm unemployed and all, but with the few subscribers coming in and the last few shekels from my last gig, I figured he and his partner deserved more than 4¢ a cubic foot for unloading our furniture (twice because the semi wouldn't make it up our driveway...I ask you to consider whether you would unload a 17' fully packed "shorty" for $34 if that was what you had to do for a living? So I tipped 'em - which they genuinely appreciated.



See? That's the kind of environment out there right now. The good news? When the insurance squares up, we will get to buy a fair replacement for our burned out home, but the administration isn't likely to hear this kind of feedback.



The Jobjacking Issue......

[donsu]

1. thanks for sharing this bit of reality & the urbansurvival link

nt