Common Folk Using Common Sense

So I’m in the local McDonald’s restaurant the other day.

I was in line for food, and there was one lady in front of me. When the girl at the counter asked the lady what she wanted the lady just mumbled something quietly. The employee leaned towards the lady to see if she could understand what the lady was asking but never understood her.

The lady then points to a picture on the wall of a chicken sandwich. The employee then asked the lady if she just wanted the chicken sandwich or wanted the entire meal. The lady wouldn’t respond. Finally the employee got an empty cup and pointed to it, at which point the lady nodded her head. So the employee rung up one chicken sandwich meal.

Then the lady held up two fingers. So the employee rung up another chicken sandwich meal.

Then the employee said, “That will be $11.30″. The lady held out a $10 bill. The employee tried to explain how she needed an additional $1.30 to pay for the meal, but the lady just stood there with a blank expression on her face. The employee finally got the manager who re-rung the order with an employee discount, taking the total down to around $8. So the employee took the $10 … and gave the lady back some money in change!

The lady eventually got her meal and walked away, and I took just enough Spanish back in high school to recognize a few of her words. Another Mexican immigrant in Georgia, possibly illegal, with no command of the English language.

Have you realized that the segment of US society with the greatest growth and economic success is the the illegal Hispanic society living in America?

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, last year, signed a sweeping immigration bill that supporters and critics say will make Georgia’s laws among the toughest in the nation, although many of the law’s provisions will not take effect until July 1, 2007. “We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws,” said Perdue. The state has acted where the federal government refused to.

The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act will verify that adults seeking many state-administered benefits are in the country legally. It sanctions employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and mandates that companies with state contracts check the immigration status of their employees. The law will also require police to check the immigration status of people they arrest to see if they face deportation orders.

There was a time in the US when immigrants would work hard to assimilate into traditional US customs, language, and laws. Now, with political correctness run amok and everyone worried about offending someone’s feelings, there is no reason for this lady to ever learn English. After all she can always “press 2 for Spanish”, and my tax dollars are probably already subsidizing her life.

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