USVI-On-Line

Not all's well in the Caribbean:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latina ... p_Emailed4

Lex wrote:Not all's well in the Caribbean:

Actually, all has never been well in Haiti, not necessarily the Carib or even So America. Haiti is considered the most desperate of all countries in the Western Hemisphere. A basket case in all things political and economic.

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I'm with you Jorge I had a addition put on my house went out for bids after i got them in I asked if I could see them work I ended up paying more but I hire the contractor who had citizens working for him and not the low bid who didn't

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I feel for you it is suppose to warm up here this weekend hope it heads your way.

Jorge - Too funny about the trucks!! So true in our experiences. (Not always, but most of the time.)

When I was in banking, my boss would tell us "don't bring me loans for any Pick'em Up contractors, I don't finance $50,000 ego trucks for people with no working capital."

We are iced in too. The crew made it to essential jobs only. We have about 2 inches of sleet on the ground at 10am.

Try running a cleaning business in this country and making people understand why your rates are higher than that other company. All of us that do run our businesses on the up and up are just suckers when it comes to this issue.

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The aliens stopped driving by when I started wearing my aluminum foil helment.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

Cheers, RickG

Jorge- It's not that I did not have business. I just get tired of the excuses people offer up when I raise an eyebrow at their staff and I tire of hearing the same stuff you do from other contractors. And then the media is feeding that myth. It's pathetic. Americans are far from lazy but we won't work for free.

Rick- I told the aliens where you live. They are coming to get you!

I guess you never know. I wouldn't have guessed that these would be the responses that that article would have evoked.

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My response was not to the article. It was to the title you posted and to the other responses. It is heart wrenching that there are people who are eating dirt for sustenance. I think most of us(in this country) understand why people risk their lives to come here. I think most of feel for these people BUT I think the people arguing the heartfelt side of the issue do not understand the financial and cultural ramifications that is brings on this country. They are quick to accuse people (against illegal immigration) of being racist and heartless when that is not it at all. We simply cannot assimilate that many people on an ongoing basis without social systems going bankrupt here.

Off soap box now.