Phil, I think that's really frightening!!


purple



At 02:45 PM 2/9/2008, you wrote:
>Hey Phil,
>Very good.  What a commentary on today.
>Vinny
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 1:38 PM
>Subject: Jesus Is A U S Citizen
>
>
>>I wrote this on another list some time ago and I may have posted it here,
>>too.  I ran across it today, red it, and thought it was apropos for this
>>year of election.
>>
>>Phil.
>>
>>     About three years ago, Jesus poured tons of concrete for my
>>son's home he had built in my backyard.  My lot is 225 feet by 75
>>feet, so we legally got the back half of my property detached
>>through city government, it took about a year, and I deeded the
>>lot over to my son.  The empty lot, without water, sewage, or
>>electricity, appraised for 42,500 dollars.  No fooling.  I
>>couldn't believe it.  Jesus, as I said, pours concrete for a
>>living.  He has one arm, too.  He lost the other arm in Mexico
>>many years ago in some type of an accident.  Anyhow, Jesus, the
>>one armed Jesus who pours concrete, is a legal American citizen.
>>He has 22 Mexican employees on his crew.  They are all legal
>>citizens of the United States, too.  We heard about Jesus through
>>a friend who builds houses for a living and my son made an
>>appointment for this one armed Jesus to come over and given him a
>>bid on a 1,650 square foot basement, a huge triple car garage
>>with a big concrete pad, and a 110 foot long driveway.  After
>>Jesus gave him the figures, my son had already gotten other bids,
>>my son decided he not only like the bid Jesus gave him, but he
>>liked the man, too.  This isn't, by the way, the real Jesus who
>>died for our sins.  Anyhow, Jesus said to my son, "Do you want me
>>to draw up a contract so you have everything I said in writing?"
>>My son, he was 21 years old at the time, said, "Do we need a
>>contract?"  Jesus said, "Well, that's up to you.  I have no
>>problem drawing one up."  Everett, my son, said, ""Jesus, I will
>>take you at your word if you will take me at my word that I will
>>pay you.  I don't need a contract if your word is good and I'm
>>willing to believe that it is."  Jesus said, "Your word is good
>>enough for me, Everett."  they shook hands on the deal.  Jesus
>>poured all the concrete, and then some, and charged only what he
>>said he would.  Although he poured a lot of extra for the garage
>>base pad, Jesus never charged any extra.  Everett paid him.  At
>>one point, we had three cement mixer trucks in our backyard.  Oh,
>>by the way, Jesus pays 40,000 dollars a year alone on workman's
>>comp for his employees.  My son and Jesus have been close friends
>>all these years now.  In fact, Everett sends him business and even
>>goes and works free for Jesus on some jobs when he has the time.
>>Jesus, in turn, loans my son things like trailers to hall things
>>with, small and large bobcats for moving and digging dirt, and
>>let's my son drive any of the earth moving equipment he wants.
>>Plus, Jesus has taught my son a lot and even with one arm, Jesus
>>works as hard as any two armed Mexican on his all Mexican crew.
>>But here is the purpose of my message.  I hope you haven't stopped
>>reading yet.
>>
>>     The other day, my son and Jesus were together for something
>>and Jesus said that he was seriously thinking, after all these
>>years of being an American citizen, of moving his family back to
>>Mexico.  Everett was surprised because Jesus makes big bucks and
>>pays his people well.  So Everett asked him why.  Jesus said that
>>the illegals are causing his transportation costs to go so high,
>>he doesn't know how much more he can keep his crew going.  Everett
>>told him he didn't understand.  Jesus said that the low wages paid
>>illegals has caused him to take jobs from 50 to 100 miles away in
>>smaller rural Colorado towns.  Everett said he still didn't
>>understand.  Jesus said, "I am having fewer and fewer in town
>>jobs."  Everett asked him if it was just the time of season that
>>business was spreading out like that.  Jesus said, no.  It was
>>definitely caused by the low wages being paid to illegals, as he
>>said, and the other concrete contractors under bidding him because
>>now they could, plus, he said, the whites are leaving the city.
>>So, he said, "I am stuck going to where the business is and most
>>of that is getting to be in smaller town 50 to 100 miles away from
>>Denver.  Now, please keep in mind, although you think I am a
>>racist, that this is what Jesus said; my hand on the Bible.  Keep
>>in mind, I am not suggesting you need to believe the bible or
>>Jesus but this is the Gospel truth as Jesus spoke it.  Let's
>>spread that work out fairly to everybody in the union of the
>>Americas and maybe I'll be able to make a dollar and 10 cents an
>>hour as I did in 1970 as a social worker.  Boy it feels good!  We
>>broke the unions back so they aren't much help any more and the
>>rest we have out sourced to India.  They speak English, though, so
>>that's different.  I bet some of them customer service folks are
>>blind, too.  The ones overseas I mean.
>>
>>Phil.
>>
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