was driving down the freeway the other day and there was this truckload of mexicans (look like gardeners) four guys in front seat of a pickup truck with a bunch of lawn mowers etc stuffed in the bed.. They had a big ass west coast choppers sticker in the back window the sticker had to be 16 or 18 inches tall.. i had to laugh, I've seen it all now..
LOL....isnt it great
I'll say this much though, altogether too often, people look at them and say 'G*ddamn wetbacks, go back to fucking mexico!!!!' but the reality is, when you have to remove that 40 year old oak tree from your back yard and you need some cheap day labor to get it done, you sure as hell arent going to pull up to the corner at home depot and get a whiteboy.....no sir, you're gonna look over the whole bunch of them and find a mexican with some muscles on him and you're gonna put him to work.....and thats the funny thing, that is what they want. Mind you, look who mows these days.......the mexicans, and now they are being forced to compete with pakis and vietnamese immigrants who will work for even less.....its funny, but its also sad in a way.
My old man, at one point, had 3 mexicans working for him....now mind you, they had social security numbers but you knew damn well and good that the numbers were bogus. Anyway, after 9/11, the government sent out a letter which in so many words said "you have 3 employees who appear to have fake social security numbers. Do not tell them that there is a problem, continue paying them and withdrawing taxes. We will get back to you at a later date". And they never did....why? Because it is free money.
Having a 0 generation latina girlfriend, I have learned quite a bit about how the mexican culture works, from smuggling wetbacks across the border and how much it costs, to how they buy legit soc# and birth certificates that are flawless, to how they pay taxes but do not file tax returns nor seek refunds because they do not want any attention. They simply want to work and make a life for themselves....which unfortunately, in this day and age, is more of an existence rather than a prosperous life.
So in short, while I too often chuckle when I see a pickup truck packed with 4 people in the front seat, brahma bull stickers on the door, and a 'Yo Love Michoacan' bumper sticker proudly displayed on the tailgate, I have a bit of admiration for them. Mind you, it is not the bracero/fruit picker/gardener/day laborer mexicans that destroy society, it is the second generation cholos that fuck things up.
The mexicans say that they took back California.....and I believe that they have. I expect the mexicans to continue to take larger and larger chunks of southern california...hell, there is rumor now that they are pushing the blacks out of compton and lynwood....and eventually, they will be pushing the asians out of westminster and garden grove. Its only a matter of time.
Now rather than to look at this in a negative light, one is better served to realize the opportunity. In example, look at how companies like Anheuser Busch and Walmart have gained a strong position in the mexican community. Mexicans shop at Walmart and drink red and white budweiser beer by the cases......it is a market. One of the account execs at my local TD Waterhouse brokerage deals exclusively with mexicans and has the biggest office, as well as countless achievement plaques on her wall.......again, its a market. I have yet to figure out how to capitalize on it myself but many others have.....door to door salesmen finding success in selling life insurance, auto insurance, legal clinic services to the mexicans......they tend to buy from people they think they can trust. Now one of these days, I'm going to figure out how to market deportation insurance to them and I'll be one rich fucker when its all said and done
Just kidding, Ms. Hogg just slapped me.
Gotta go.
H