Yep, our country's going to the dogs, all right. It does bother me. 
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:27 PM
Subject: Where america Is Going


>     I was listening to a morning talk show here in Denver as I
> drifted in and out of sleep.  This was Monday but some of it
> occurred on Tuesday as well.  the talk show host is a man who has
> been in the business over 30 years and is well liked and he gets
> top ratings.  He rides Harly motorcycles with a bunch of guys,
> some cops, some accountants, bankers, and just about every walk of
> life is represented in their bike riding group.  In fact, he and
> his group put together a motorcycle ride from Denver up to Bailey,
> Colorado when that man, about a year ago, shot and killed a
> teenage Christian girl before killing himself.  They raised a
> bunch of money and it was quite the news at the time.  Anyhow,
> this guy's name is Peter that runs the talk show.  He told this
> story that happened just last weekend.  He walked into a
> McDonald's to get a Egg Mac Muffin.  There was a black guy in
> front of him so they both stood in line waiting.  The lady running
> the counter only spoke Spanish.  This is getting to be quite
> common in Denver.  So, after a few minutes of not understanding
> that the black guy was ordering a double cheese burger, the lady
> called for help.  Another woman, who supposedly knows English,
> walked up but she too was unable to understand what the black man
> was trying to order.  They motioned for him to step to the side
> and they would get somebody to help him.  I guess, somebody who
> speaks American English or something.  Anyhow, Peter steps up, and
> wouldn't you know, the two women together don't know what an Egg
> Mac Muffin is, or at least they couldn't understand Peter's
> English.  Both men walk out in total discussed, without their
> orders, and Peter, although he knew it would make the Clear
> channel station management mad, he said he would never enter a
> McDonald's place again.  So, I believe it was Tuesday morning,
> Peter is on from 5 until 9 every day in the mornings, a woman
> called in to give her McDonald's story.  She goes into the place
> and before placing an order, decides she is going to use the
> bathroom or restroom or lady's room or whatever the politically
> correct term is these days.  The lady telling the story said she
> came out of her stall, now get a hold of yourself, and the stall
> immediately next to her's opens and out comes an employee of
> McDonald's.  The woman telling the story said she noticed the
> woman was an employee, because the lady was wearing a McDonald's
> shirt which identified her as one of the company employees, but
> she also still had her plastic cellophane gloves on her hands.  So
> the woman obviously worked in food preparation but she was still
> wearing the gloves as she was in the stall.  How do I know this? 
> The woman on the radio talk show said she tried speaking to the
> woman but the woman could not speak English, if you know what I
> mean, and both women walked to the sinks together.  The non
> English speaking woman turned on the water and ran water over her
> plastic gloved hands.  The woman telling the story, turned around,
> walked out, and said she would never eat in a place like that
> again.  She also reported the incident to company authorities but
> you know that won't change anything.  Now, even if this story is a
> lie, it will make you stop and think before eating at a fast food
> place ever again.  Like Peter said on his show, have you seen the
> price of fast food going down since they are hiring illegals who
> don't have to be paid minimum wage?  No, of course, I know that
> not all are illegal just because they don't speak American
> English.  Give me a break.  You call me a racist and I will
> introduce you to my to mixed race grandsons, part Afro American,
> Part black, and part American Indian, grandsons whom I love as
> much as the rest of my grandchildren.  So drop that bilge right
> now because the race card isn't what we are playing right now.
> 
>     I recall the last time we, as a family, called in some food
> and went and picked it up, we all got sick, mildly, but sick
> regardless, the next day.  I stopped eating at Taco Bell months
> ago because I loved their chicken chaloopas, After getting sick to
> my stomach three times in a row.  I stopped eating those types of
> tacos but now I'm worried about eating anything else from there.
> 
>     Secondly, did you know the McDonald's are testing outsourcing
> in the drive up order lane?  That's right.  They are funneling
> calls from your car as you order in the drive up lane, to a call
> center where people can supposedly speak English.  At the moment,
> 250 stores are involved but what do you bet this sticks?  They
> also, at these drive up windows, have a digital camera that looks
> at you and your car so when you pull up, the person can inform the
> store that the blue car is the one that owes the 14.25 or whatever
> they owe.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
> 
>     Not too long ago, Vicki and John took Sandy and I out to eat
> at a nice place.  We deliberately waited till a certain lady
> could be our waitress because John and Vicki had been to this
> place many times and she always gave wonderful service.  So, after
> we had ordered and been waiting, for some time, the waitress comes
> over and informs us that she had gone back to the cooking area and
> using what little Spanish she had learned from others, got the
> cook to speed our order up.  She said, A little Spanish goes a
> long ways in this town.
> 
>     When my daughter Gretchen was getting mixed up with drugs and
> alcohol, she worked as a manager at a Wendy's.  She often handled
> the drive up window because, she said, she had learned enough
> Spanish to take orders.  Plus, she was able to communicate back to
> the all Spanish speaking crew and indicate which orders went to
> which car.  That's right.  She had a totally non English speaking
> crew.  She told me even back then, and this was at least four
> years ago, that even most of the drive up customers were not able
> to speak English.
> 
>     Does this bother you?
> 
>     My youngest son owns a drapery design shop.  Decorators bring
> them orders and they do all the work.  Sometimes he does installs
> as well but mostly that is handle by someone else the decorator
> has hired.  A couple of years ago, before my son became the owner
> and worked just as one of the family employees, the cousin who
> owned the business hired, dare I say it, he hired a young
> Afghanistan man.  The eventually were forced to fire him.  Why? 
> He literally did not know the ethics of using the bathroom
> properly.  The crew got sick and tired of having to clean up
> after him.  Yes, they tried explaining things to him.  No, I am
> not making this up.  Like I said before, does this bother you. 
> How many of the  12 million, or more, illegals living in this
> country have come across the border with all the required
> vaccinations we received as children?  For that matter, how many
> of the 1.5 million coming over the southern boarder every year
> have the required vaccinations?  Does it matter to you?  they say
> that we approve, legally, 1.5 million immigrants each year.  I
> have a friend who, along with his whole family, just became an
> American citizen.  Consider this next question.  How many is
> enough?  12 million, 15 million, 20 million, a hundred million? 
> Do we place a limit do to our resources or do we just open our
> borders, well, they are already open, and let everybody come? 
> Explain to me why congress can't even pass a comprehensive
> immigration law?  What about the one the congress passed in the
> eighties during the Reagan administration?  Why isn't it working
> or being enforced?  We now need another one?  If you think just
> Hispanics are coming over the southern border, think again.  They
> may be the majority but every national un Heaven uses that same
> border to enter the United Sates or doesn't that matter to you? 
> Is the American culture changing for the better?  If so, why are
> English speaking Americans in this area taking night courses in
> the Spanish language just so they can order food from fast food
> joints?  There are signs up in front of buildings all over Denver,
> or are printed in the newspapers, that say, Spanish Speaking Only,
> or Bilingual Only.  Even some of the local government jobs
> requirements are the same.  So these are the jobs American won't
> do Mr. President?  One of my older sisters has been a Registered
> Nurse for over 35 years and is nearing retirement.  She works a
> lot of Emergency Room shifts.  She has learned enough Spanish to
> at least find out why the person is coming to the hospital.  By
> the way, they are coming free.  Excuse me.  That's wrong. 
> American tax payers are covering the bill.  That means you.  I ask
> again, does that bother you?  Are you looking forward to becoming
> the North American Union?  Are you looking forward, once an
> emigration bill is finally passed, of increasing your taxes to
> cover the estimated 75 billion, with a B, to take care of those
> who will be supported by your government or did you think all the
> illegals crossing the border were just coming for good jobs? 
> Stopping the Iraq war won't help even solve that problem.  So
> where do we eat now?  What about the unions when 12 or 15 or 20 or
> 100 million new workers, if you believe they come here to work,
> don't want to join?  Of course, this could be a hay day for the
> unions, huh?  Maybe an excellent voting block, too, but getting
> all these people who will do the jobs for less money that
> American's won't do.  Who ever said that in the first place, I
> wonder?  How do they know that anyhow?  Just curious but then I'm
> a racist I suppose.
> 
> Please click on the following White House Presidential Directive
> NSPD 51 and weep when you realize what has been done without
> congress even knowing about it.
> 
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html