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A Foreign Fence
"I needed a nice fence around my house. So, I hired some Mexicans to do the job. Now I have a new fence and $400 left of my stimulus check."
Matt G, 25
Houma, LA
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Comments
nice fence!! i bet those mexicans were underpaid... didn't you use your stimulus when you bought your fence?
Posted by: borat May 6th, 15:10
Either you're married with 3 kids ($2100) or you managed to only pay $200 for a fence from some cheap labor... if it's the latter, please let me know who they are, I could really go for a new fence.
Posted by: Fence me in... May 6th, 15:15
Im sure it makes a big deal to say "I hired some mexicans to do the job" rather than say "I hired some ppl" would you feel you got lesser quality of work if you hired another race of ppl to do the job? Are other races more expensive is what you was getting at? Or maybe a better phrase would of been "I hired some laborers to do the job", If you had that much money left over you must of had many kids and so probably don't own a tv hence why all the kids to fill up the time (making them if you didn't get the comment).
Posted by: CommonSense May 6th, 15:44
CommonSense,
I believe what they are saying is that often illegal immigrants (especially those from Mexico, [aka, "Mexicans"]) live in financial hardship due to the workforce barriers language and visas, yet they still can have excellent physical/craftsmanship abilities. This high supply low demand aspect of their labour makes them less expensive for the same quality of work. Some may argue that they have more to prove for themselves than an american/union laborer, and provide higher quality results. At any rate, I believe your panties are bunched [no gender or orientation implied] and I suggest you remove them. P.S. I just won on the internets, w00t.
Posted by: David May 6th, 16:35
I wish I would have had Mexicans build my computer that I spent my stimulus check on...I lose at teh internets... :-(
Posted by: T-Will May 6th, 16:55
I call shenanigans... I work with Mexicans all day and there is no way in hell they could have installed that fence. It's straight.
Posted by: Skinny May 6th, 19:12
Soooooo, nice to see everyone dropping by to either:
-drop a politically correct comment or
-bust on mexicans (because any latinamerican is mexican even though they're not, just as any asian is a jap or any european accent is unintelligible)
so being a quarter mexican, a quarter italian and a quarter irish, I´m just gonna sit down to either wait for the name-calling on me or the "I didn't read anything man" kind'a comment. Nice fence, poor choice of words. Lots of handy people around the globe: Mexico, Japan, US, Germany, Brasil and so on.
Posted by: Mexirisitalian May 6th, 21:52
skinny:
In Louisiana, where the gentleman who built the fence is from, recently suffered a "fuck you" from a hurricane. After the cane, lots of MEXICANS, yes MEXICANS, flooded into Louisiana to find work. They provide good, cheap labor. I live in New Orleans, I would no. So, Skinny, go suck an egg.
Posted by: j.izzle May 6th, 22:11
last comment was directed at Mexirisitalian, not skinny.
Posted by: j.izzle May 6th, 22:13
Good thing they were mexiCANS and not mexiDON'TS.
Posted by: Alan Smithee May 7th, 06:45
Hahahaha, way to piss of the Republicans on border patrol. Nice fence. They really did it for $200?
Posted by: Meg May 7th, 10:04
Yes materials and all
Posted by: Matt G May 7th, 12:05
Whoever they were (Mexicans, South Americans, Italians, Little Green Men), they did a beautiful job.
Posted by: MrsBug May 7th, 13:14
very nice fence!
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