VIDEO — Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera Get Angry
This one is just funny. Geraldo Rivera takes on O’Reilly with a vengeance. This started out to be a segment on drunk driving and gets nastily into illegal immigration. I can’t believe how emotional Bill gets. Is this journalism, neutral, fair and balanced? Well, Geraldo said it best when addressing Bill… Don’t obscure a tragedy to make a cheap political point. It is a cheap political point, and you know it!! I can’t believe how ridiculous Bill is, and people actually watch this crap and think it is real news? Anyways, I think Bill found his equal.
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Geraldo, you won the debate. Bill, is letting his personal emotion get into the immigration issue. This issue is about drunk driving, not immigration. I applaud Geraldo for keeping your stance and not backing down, like other guests who have appeared on the O’Reilly Factor!! Way to Go!
I agree. What surprised me was how Bill didn’t tell one of his minions to cut Geraldo’s mic like he always does. Thanks Ron for your contribution, we hope to see you again.
Gerlado said nobody would have cared if the DUI driver had a name like “Bubba” or “Raminsky”, and he is correct. Because people with names like Raminsky and Bubba don’t try to force their language and cultue on the USA as Hispanicks do and blatantly disrespect the USA in so many other ways. Like how they boo USA international sports teams, how they blame the USA for all the problems in Latin America, how they smuggle tens of billions of dolollars out of the USA every year, how they will not drive an American made car or to give their kids American names, waving foreign flags all over the USA…..
I could go on and on.
Samoa, I agree, immigration is definitely a problem. Everyone is frustrated with it. However, we see it as more of a resource drain and over-population problem than anything else.
Please check out our articles on this blog that have to do with immigration. You may get a slightly different view on the the subject and let us know what you think.
Thanks for the comment. We hope to see you back on the site again.
I agree with both, illegal immigration is a problem, only because its illegal, but if this country truly wanted to stop illegal immigration decades ago, they could have, the Berlin wall is an example, but who is going to cut the grass for minimum wage, who will work at construction sites and move debris or dig a hole with basic tools, who will pick Americas food from the fields, who will clean houses for the wealthy or take care of their beautiful garden ? Thats why our country needs and permits this type of immigration. Its actually more of a blessing than a curse. THESE JOBS NO OTHER AMERICAN WANTS.
Jose - you’re right, Americans don’t want to do those jobs for minimum wage. The employers would have to start paying living wages, and compete like other, legal businesses do in a capitalist society. When I owned my house, I had a gardener who was not an illegal immigrant. He cost more, but I was willing to pay him what he wanted as a matter of principle. If all those jobs cost more to fill, the financial effects would adjust - just like they do whenever the economy goes up and down. I’m no economist, but there’s no way I’m going to believe that it’s a *good* thing to pay people starvation wages for grueling, back-breaking work. What is a blessing about that?
And O’Reilly is going to give himself a stroke on-air one of these days. He needs to calm down!
Again, I agree with Vera. The illegal immigration caused the lowering of wages so that only the illegals would work for such a low wage. We caused this problem by looking the other way when corporations were ripping off Americans to save the bottom line by hiring illegal aliens that would take a job for nothing.
Vera, you are awesome! I like a person with principals and honor. Way to go!
I don’t disagree with you Vera, illegal immigration lowers wages but the problem is really political. Politicians have a tendency of doing whats “best” for big business, if big business can’t “survive” here in America paying 12 dollars an hour to its employees these businesses will move out of the country and hire these same people in their country and pay them 12 pesos which is probably 1 dollar an hour. So politicians in order to try to keep some big business in America they “permit” cheap illegal labor come to America. In many cases its convenient for politicians when companies actually leave. Many of these same politicians have stocks in these companies and ALSO profit from big business, whether the company leaves or uses cheap labor here. Its a very complicated corrupt political subject and theres more to it than just calling the problem, illegal immigration. TO MANY POLITICIANS PROFIT FROM THESE CIRCUMSTANCES. Once again, if Politicians really wanted to eliminate this problem RIGHT NOW, all they would need is a “Berlin Wall” in our borders. POLITICIANS ARE TRULY THE PROBLEM. SAME APPLIES TO OIL, SOCIAL SECURITY, HEALTH CARE, ETC!!!
When it comes to the “blessing” remark. These illegal immigrants consider it a blessing for themselves. NOT US !
I have spoken with some of these illegal immigrants and asked them why they are willing to work so hard for so little. They need it for many reasons. At home many of them are starving, if you watch documentaries of hunger in their countries some eat out of garbage dumps, some work here a decade or two, go back home and with that money they build themselves a “mansion” and live better than us here. I know of a case where they went back home started a business and are doing well, with money they could have never saved in their own country. Some have sick family and have no choice but to work here and send the money home, not caring for their own living conditions here. I can go on and on. So to many of them, IT IS A BLESSING !!! OH, AND THE POLITICIANS !!! $$$
Jose, the businesses that benefit from illegal immigrants are usually not the ones that are going to move to some poor country. Illegal immigrants don’t work for the phone centers and manufacturers - most of whom have already left the U.S. The people in question work in the service industry. Please tell me how and why would a landscaping company in San Diego move to Mexico or El Salvador? Who there has enough money to hire a gardener? (Who even owns a yard there?!!) And how could a construction company that’s building something in Pittsburgh move to Central/South America? Or the maids who clean houses for rich ladies in Connecticut and hotels in Vegas? Or the nanny service who cares for working couples’ babies? Or the American farmer whose land is in Arizona or California? These types of businesses and individuals cater to the American lifestyle, and the only place they could move and still make money would be to Western Europe - where the same problems exist exactly the way they do here - same dilemma, different continent.
I totally understand your point about these unfortunate people needing the money. It’s the same story as all the other immigrants to this country - my own grandparents, aunts & uncles on both sides of my family are from Italy. But they came legally - even though they had to come over one-at-a-time over the course of many years, due to all the prejudice in those days against letting in Italians. (We’re all Mafia, you know?)
I do agree with you about the politicians not helping matters. (When do they ever? LOL)
Exploiting and taking advantage of these people is wrong. I think it’d be a bigger blessing if we put our vast money & brains & efforts into helping poor countries end the horrible poverty there. I’m sure we have lots of people in this country who are much smarter than I who probably have some excellent ideas on how to achieve that.
For the illegals here, it can’t be any kind of a life working harder than a mule for no pay, and looking over your shoulder every 3 seconds because you’re afraid of the immigration police! Let’s get them here legally & pay them like human beings, OR let’s help them fix their own countries. But the status quo is unacceptable - for them AND for us.
Peace out.
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MOST big companies have sub-contracted companies that do all the service\dirty work. Who gets these contracts? The lowest bidder. Who bids the lowest biider? The subcontracter that most likely has illegals. Why would big companies go for the lowest bidder? SAVE MONEY! Save who’s money? The stock holders like, in many cases politicians. Didn’t Walmart recently have like this problem?www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/04/national/main581731.shtml
Service companies may not leave the country but sweatshops of illegals still exist in latin america, FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES, the same illegals that here would cut your grass. Didn’t Kathy Lee and Disney also have this issue recently?
www.monitor.net/monitor/sweatshop/ss-solomon.html
This country does not want other countries to prosper, its in there political interest. I agree that taking advantage of these people is wrong as well. Fidel Castro was driven to hate this country for a reason, he himself being an evil bastard. Bin Ladin was also driven to hate this country for the same reasons, he to is another evil bastard, and this country has its reasons hate them back, but the reasons behind the evils of the world are beyond all terrorists, politicians, “good politicians”, etc.
Look, this problem, as all others, will never go away no matter how much you and I talk about it because we have no control over this worlds evils. This problem has existed since the begining of time and will continue long after we’re dead.
Jose, I totally respect what you say. However, my points are based on a narrower aspect of the bigger problem - that being immigrants who are illegally in the U.S. and how that affects both us and them, and how we can address that issue specifically. All solutions start somewhere - and they usually start out small. Let’s try & fix ourselves & our own country’s ills; maybe some of our positive changes could begin to spill over across borders.
I hope you are wrong about these problems going on forever, but I fear you are right.