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.
>
>