San Antonio, TX

Bikini Car Wash Closed Temporarily

Obviously the city is messing with him to get him to shut down/move. I am sure the complaints on this business must be through the roof. But, why can't the owner just grow up a little, be respectful of families and neighborhoods, and open his business somewhere that isn't beside schools and churches? I guess if you have young bikini clad women making money for you, you don't have enough personal standards to consider the community's best interests.  (Sunday May 11 | post #4)

Richmond, VA

Day without immigrants

That tired line of " Immigrants do the jobs Americans don't want to do" is a lie. If you know any long term construction workers here in the US, they will tell you that they are losing their jobs left and right to cheaper labor- illegals. They will work for much cheaper, often straight cash, so they push many hard workers out of possible employment. Every business owner is out to make money- and unfortunately, most will go with cheaper labor. Think about it- its so much easier to pay someone cash than file paperwork, etc... not to mention, cheaper still because thats one less employee for workers compensation insurance. There have always been unskilled and skilled labor jobs out there- there always will be. But lately, many Americans have become prosperous, and freaking lazy. Too lazy to cut our grass, wash our cars, clean our house or offices, build our house, fix our cars, cook our own meals, etc. These "jobs" weren't born out of necessity. We stab ourselves in the back saying we need this work done. We actually need to get out and take care of chores ourselves instead of watching tv,computer, and feeding our faces and becoming the most overweight nation on Earth. Many of us can recall a time when teens cut grass in the neighborhood for money, or shoveled snow, did household chores for allowance, babysat, etc. What happened? Now so many parents couldn't dream of asking their kids to do this work- why, they are too busy with soccer or other sports, cheerleading, etc. They need their ipods, cell phones, computers, or even new cars to keep pace- why should they have to work hard for anything? We hurt ourselves badly with this line of logic. We have people that come to the US fleeing oppressive governments- many die trying to escape Cuba, for example. Try to convince me or anyone else that someone coming here to work illegally should have more rights to become a citizen than the person fleeing Castro's Cuba. We welcome the huddled masses yearning for freedom, not the American dollar.  (May 7, 2007 | post #41)