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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:45 AM
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New submission for stupidest bumper sticker:
On the way home from work I find myself behind a couple of SUVs. (yes I was shocked too) One had a "Tancredo for President" sticker the other "Hunter '08". Those were of course stupid enough, but the Tancredo supporter also had one that says "Illegals Are Closing Our Hospitals".

I'm assuming that means that there are so many undocumented workers getting free care that the medical facilities can't stay in business. I didn't know there were enough hospitals shutting their doors to warrant printing up bumper stickers, and I really didn't know they were doing so because of "illegals."
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:47 AM
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1. It's an emotional reactio with no logic attached.
Edited on Fri Jun-08-07 08:48 AM by ginnyinWI
The Right always has to have a bogeyman, and right now illegals are it. The more guilty the repubs are, the more their party screws up, the more they need a scape goat. What, they should take responsibility for themselves? Bah!
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:55 AM
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2. Yeah, it's the big wedge issue this time around
Especially here on the border, about the only thing that hasn't been blamed on Mexicans is global warming. Probably shouldn't give them any ideas. :)

Someone who thinks either Hunter or Tancredo should be in the Whitehouse probably is not competent to operate a motor vehicle. :scared:
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:59 AM
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4. funny you should say that
My dad is a fundy-wingnut-RW talk radio devotee, and I'm afraid to ride in his car! He has the habit of passing on a two-lane highway in a way that would give you gray hair! And never uses his turn signal. Ok granted that he's an old coot, but still.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:59 AM
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3. I saw one the other day that made me go "WTF?"
It was red, white and blue (aren't they always?) and divided in half. On top was an American flag. On the bottom were the words "We are the Spartans". Uh, yeah - okay.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:01 AM
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5. The bumper sticker ought to just say
"I hate Mexicans"
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:12 AM
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10. Nah. "I hate everyone who isn't exactly like me ....
and I have my doubts about you."
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:22 AM
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11. Yes, to be more precise
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:30 PM
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13. illegals is the new ni**ers..
I see the term as rascist, quite frankly.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:36 PM
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16. Your're right. We all know that "illegal" is code for "Mexican" n/t
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:47 PM
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18. Except for those who do my lawn
care for my kids, pick my vegtables, detail my car, paint my house, cook my food, wash my dishes, bus my table, all for some under the table less than minimum wages.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:03 AM
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6. They also never get that if it were true then deporting all of the
illegals would mean that many nurses, etc., would lose their jobs. If the illegals support the hospitals that much, then wouldn't deporting the illegals close the hospitals. It might lower our taxes but it would still put the individuals in the hospital business out of work, at least for a while.

This is part of that fiction that they don't realize they are just whining that poor people sometimes get a break (while driving around in an SUV, you are to feel sorrier for them than for the illegal who is desperately poor, far from home, working for a low wage at a tough job, and in reality, doesn't get nearly the medical attention the SUV driver gets).

It just always cracks me up how these idiots think they are the victims of these illegals. Most of them are not affected in any negative way by the presence of the illegals, well, except maybe a lower price for lettuce and that they don't like seeing so many brown people around.



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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:30 AM
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12. right.
And I wonder how many illegals working under a false SSN give money to the system every paycheck without ever getting it back?
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:06 AM
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7. Illegals must all be malpractice lawyers, at least lawyers were the last reason hospitals
Edited on Fri Jun-08-07 09:07 AM by Snotcicles
were closing.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:07 AM
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8. well, sure, like closing them up at night after cleaning them, yeah.
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tiredofthisstuff Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:09 AM
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9. A Honest Sticker
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:32 PM
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14. too many ob/gyns aren't able to practice their love..
all thanks to the illegals.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:33 PM
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15. Soylent Green is illegal aliens!!!!
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:41 PM
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17. And it's wrapped and grilled so it is good to go!!

I'm sorry, really I am.

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