Can we talk???

Wednesday, 10:39 pm

By Cyn

SO, OK I have been quieter the last few days, but I have a good excuse, I was busy hiding my own Easter eggs............OK, an Alzheimer’s joke which probably is not in good taste, but I COULD hide my own these days, I seem to be hiding a lot of things!!  Either that or the ghosts of my mom and dad are having an awful lot of fun moving and hiding things at my expense.

But I want to talk.........about several things, but since it is going for 11PM, I will just pick one for now. 

The immigration law just signed in Arizona.  I have been chewing on this one for the last several days because I needed to cool down before I commented.  I have to some extent, but I am still angry.  However, before I go any further, I have to give props to the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, Clarence Dupnik.  I listened to him on Hardball tonight and liked what he had to say.  He thinks that this whole thing will eventually be thrown out, but before it does there will be a lot of upset voters, hurt feelings and a tremendous amount of confusion.

I confess - proudly - to being somewhat of a liberal, maybe not a total bleeding heart liberal as I have been called lately, but I think I have a pretty good sense of what is right and what is wrong and I think this new law in Arizona is wrong, wrong, wrong.  I also confess I have not read it, I have read the newspaper reports, listened to many different commentators about it and nothing has changed my mind. 

What I do not understand, what I have never understood and what I probably never will understand is WHY we feel the need to go after the illegals?  I don’t blame them for trying to make a better life for themselves.  They are - and I believe this to be true - doing the jobs we don’t want or won’t do.  However, what I cannot wrap my head around is the fact there are so many so willing to go after these people and deport them, break up families perhaps and not one, not a single one that I have heard, has ever said we should be going after the PEOPLE WHO EMPLOY THEM.........most especially the big corporations.  I must be stupid cause I think if we went after them and made it HURT if they are hiring illegals, then the problem would go away........or wouldn’t it?  Could it be it is political suicide to go after the people who are lining your campaign pockets with money?? 

So, c’mon, let’s talk!!

Ciao’