Immigrants of Days Past

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1:01At QVC, shopping is more than just checking out. It's discovering something new every day. Start with today's special value. Then, explore exciting finds across the brands and categories you love. From beauty and fashion, to home, culinary, and outdoor living. Shop now at QVC.com. People often ask me, Jeff, if you could be anybody else, who would it be? Would it be, I don't know, President Trump? Would it be Tom Cruise? Would it be, you know, take your pick, you know, like whatever, you know, would it be, you know, Ed Sheeran, and not really, not right now, but, you know what I mean? Would you want to be a rock star, a football star, a celebrity, President?

2:01I'm like, I use Sirius. Just, just, just make me any legal. Please treat me like any legal. You know, the stress and work in being President of the United States, or, you know, your football player, you know, you could beat up on the field all the time. Even these rock stars, look at them. They're sweating out there. They're doing show after show. I mean, you see them. I mean, it's, you know, and the sex, drugs, rock and roll. It's hard living, man. You know, no, treat me like any legal. This way, I'm always the victim. The Democrats always celebrate me. And the media, I'm a dreamer. I'm better than every other American. Notice, the illegals are always superior to Americans. More virtuous, more hard working. They're just better people. So I get all of that positive constant affirmation. And where are you going to beat $60,000,000?

3:01Benefits, cash money, free housing, free food. I mean, it's free healthcare. And you don't get to work. I mean, it's the dream life. I'm serious. I'd be like, what are you talking about? I don't want to be president. Look at the guy he's graying. He's worried about this war, that war, you know, the midterms, constant assassination attempts. Oh, this, you sit back, take it easy. You know, pop a few kids at your wife, have a few kids. You know, put them on welfare, put the wife on welfare. Hey, that's the life, my friend. 617, 266, 68, 68, 68. You know, if, if, you know, if I was ever to be reincarnated and I don't believe in reincarnation, but just humor me, you know. And God says, well, you know, I can send you back. What do you want to be? I want to be any legal, but in America, you got it.

4:05It says close to heaven on earth. Tommy in Brockton. Thanks for holding Tommy and welcome. Yeah, if I get reincarnated, I want to come back as Jeremiah Johnson. I'm sick of social media. I'm sick of cell phones. And I am especially sick of progressives from Massachusetts. My God, can you imagine they're going to not allow people to wear masks. They're going to wear masks. They're going to let me embark on a whole more full of cases. How I can't. I can't. Them so well. That's exactly how they talk and think. It's, it's, oh, it's eerie. How good you have them. Tommy, buddy, what do you think? Should illegals or even legal immigrants on work visa, student visas?

5:06Are they entitled to your money? No, of course not. And Ronald Reagan at the end of his presidency made an excellent speech about immigrants. And in one of the last sentences, he said, the immigrant that comes to America. Gives more than they take. All you got to do was go on to YouTube and see that. And it was a very inspiring speech. And I will tell you one thing. As a kid growing up in Foxboro that was pretty much an all-white town. We had a couple of black families, one that was interracial. That summer, I washed dishes during the daytime at Lafayette House. And then I was a janitor at night at the Fox, the old Foxboro company. And my first day in the job I was told by a supervisor, you're going to be working with a lot of good people here.

6:11They're Portuguese and Cape Verdean. And I never will forget. I was working 16 hours a day to pay for my tuition for technical school. And I actually earned enough and came in. And I just looked horrible. I looked like death warmed over. And he spoke broken English. And he said to me. You know, look, so good. You take a dish, you find a closet, you go take a nap, you know, say nothing to nobody. You understand? I come find you because he knew where I was working. And he says, you get some sleep. I come get you. And at the end of working, maybe it might have been 10 weeks. You know, the last, last week in August. He pulled me into his office and he gave me some Portuguese port.

7:12And I never will forget this. He says, you know, I come here to America back home in Portugal. I used to work on a milk wagon, delivering, you know, I guess it was a 50 gallon. I used to work on a lot of things of milk or whatever off the back of the court. This guy was built. And he says, you make something out of yourself. He says, my son, he takes care of me. He's going to go to college just like you and be something. He says, this is a great country. And I never will forget those guys. And they used to drive in and vans from Fall River in New Bedford to clean the Foxboro company at night. They were going to work. And their attitude was one of gracefulness. And I see these people now where I'm in Brockton that recently arrived immigrant. Tommy.

8:13You see, this is why I wish I'd have the power to extend a minute. Warning, the following song has been rated dangerously catchy and may not be suitable for grownups. One, two, three, four. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, five, six, who is six? Five, six, two, six. It's coming and it's coming and coming. Lingo Kids, only suitable for kids. If it gets stuck in mom's head, that's not our problem. Mabel Kids. Everything kids love, download now for free. Okay, let's go right back to Tommy in Brockton. He says when he was a much younger man, saving up money, working extra hours in the summer, to be able to pay his way through college. He ran into some wonderful Portuguese legal immigrants who had a phenomenal ferocious work ethic. As he said, they worked hard. They were so grateful to be in America. And he says, I compare those immigrants of my youth that I worked with that I knew who had a profound impact on me.

9:20And I compare them now to the new kinds of immigrants or migrants that he sees in Brockton and then we were cut off. So Tommy, please pick up where you left off. Thank you. Anyway, going back to that time that was the summer of 78 and to show you how ignorant I was when I first heard about Dave Bertie and I said, I like kid cod. It's my whole, the, you dope. It's a country off of Africa. Look at the globe for a change. But anyway, the point I was trying to make was the gratefulness and the attitude of immigrants back then. What I see now is many people coming to this country and especially within the Somali community, a sense of entitlement. And I'm sorry, that doesn't make me racist for saying that. And what I see what's going on in the world is specially with Europe and the Americas.

10:23And that includes Canada. Why are we the only people that have to absorb the rest of the world's refugees? Japan doesn't do it. China certainly doesn't do it. Okay. You know, all of this stuff that I view the lens of the United States of America. I view liberals as self-loathing people and you had a caller earlier that brought up the term suicidal empathy. And that's exactly what's going on in Western Europe right now. You literally have people from the Middle East that legally they're not married to these women by their laws. However, they have several spouses living in the same apartment and the government knows this. And they're going broke. And I made the prediction on your show within the past two years.

11:27Make no mistake. At some point in this state, there will be a Muslim organization like care, counsel on Islamic American relations. That's going to file a lawsuit to allow polygamy. And I guarantee you those people out in Greenfield that are virtue signaling about wearing a mask, even though COVID's over with. They will be the same people that say, well, who am I to judge? Marriage isn't evolving paradigm. And it truly is the change in transformation of America as we know it. And at some point, you have to realize we're at $40 billion, $40 trillion in national debt. At some point, the chickens are going to come home to roost. And we are going to see a depression that is going to dwarf what happened in the 1930s. And all I can tell you, Jeff, is if we go back to the summer of 23, when more a healy asked people in this state,

12:28will you allow a migrant to stay in your house? One family in Brooklyn, in Brookline allowed a Haitian couple. And they were interviewed on New Center 5 about that. And the wife who was white, I'm assuming they're middle class people, said it was like having our own chef. I guess the Haitian woman was a chef. And I don't know what the husband did, but I'm thinking to myself, I wonder if this guy does gardening. Well, if we go back 200 and some odd years ago in Massachusetts, that was called indentured servant. For seven years, you had to work to get yourself free. And essentially, that's what it seems like we're headed that way. And I don't know. All I can tell you is that God forbid if the house in the Senate goes Democrat, and we end up with a Democrat for president, this country is overweight. We're screwed. Screwed. We are so screwed. Tommy, great call. Great call.

13:31Thank you for that call, Tommy. Couldn't have said it better myself. Steve in New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Steve and welcome. Thank you. Good morning, Jeff. Hi Steve. I'm hoping that you can maybe explain something to me. And this may be found a leadist on my part, but I think I've kind of earned the right to say it. I've been self-employed my whole career. I'm going to be 70 next year. I have always paid my own health insurance for my family. I put my children through school. I have a good retirement plan that I put together. And I've always felt that Medicare is for people who have established themselves. And that Medicaid was more of for people who needed the assistance.

14:35And I find it very offensive now when I hear from the Democrats that they're saying Medicare for all. In my opinion, what they're doing is elevating people up to the status of people who have worked hard, have saved and have done what they needed to do in life to be successful. And I just feel that they're trying to really group the American public by saying Medicare for all. Because if you really look at it, if they say, well, it's Medicaid for all, then a lot of people who have been somewhat successful in life will find that so offensive. And I think because you are basically dragging everyone down. And I'm just hoping maybe you can explain to me where they feel Medicare for all and not saying Medicaid for all.

15:43Well, you nailed it. It's going to be Medicaid for all, but it's going to be bankrupting Medicaid for Medicaid in order to try to pay for all. No, look, you nailed it. The thing about Medicare is that people pay into the system for decades and decades and decades. So you've paid into it. That's why you're into me. You're entitled to those benefits. So they want to give free health insurance to people who've never paid into the system. Frankly, many people who don't even deserve to be in our country, who don't belong in our country. So you're giving people something that they haven't earned or haven't paid for. And what's going to end up happening, Steve, is it's going to go from Medicare for all to Medicare for none. Because if you make Medicare for all, you're going to bankrupt Medicare. And you're going to bankrupt the quality of care that you, I'm not saying Medicare is perfect. And I know you got to pay for extra services. I get it. But what I'm saying is the quality that you do have now, you're going to destroy that quality because there's not enough money to put everybody on a system that gives you the kind of access to good quality care that you have under Medicare.

16:59That's why to his credit, I can't stand the guy, but at least he's semi honest on this. Dual L. Syed is running the candidate in Michigan, the other is Lambo communist, the Hamas. He's basically a Hamas supporter. He said, no, no, I want Medicare for all. And he goes, it's going to cost trillions and trillions. And then so people say, well, how are you going to pay for it? He goes, well, I'm going to raise everybody's taxes. We're going to have to substantially raise people's taxes. So our taxes are going to go way up. And you're going to see the quality of the care is going to go way down. It's going to, you're going to get the quality care that you have in Canada, which is a, or great Britain, which is garbage care. And don't even take my word for it. There is a huge new case. There's a couple. I think they're from British Columbia, but don't quote me on that. There are Canadian couple. And this poor woman developed cancer, stage four cancer.

18:02And the Canadian healthcare system said, there's nothing we can do for you. Like, it's just, it's assisted suicide. All we can offer you, they call it made in Canada. M-A-I-D. Look it up. Please don't trust me. And they said, no, we're going to have to put you on made. Meaning we're going to kill you to assist the suicide. Euthanasia. And she's like, I don't want to die. So they came to the United States. And you know what under the, our current healthcare system. It cured her cancer. She's alive and she's going to be living for years to come. Her husband, when he does a video, can't stop giving the middle finger to Canada and to the Canadian healthcare system. Say, this is what I think of the Canadian healthcare system. And he's like flipping the bird. Warning. The following song has been rated dangerously catchy and may not be suitable for grownups. A-B-C-D in the morning, brush your teeth.

19:02A-B-C-D in the morning, brush your teeth. E-F-G-H. Hurry up and don't be late. E-F-G-H. Hurry up and don't be late. Lingo Kids. Only suitable for kids. If it gets stuck in mom's head, that's not our problem. M-E-L-K-S. Everything kids love. Download now for free. You know, when Tommy in Brockton was talking about these Portuguese or Cape Verdean immigrants that he worked with in his youth, and just what a ferocious work ethic they had, and how grateful they were to be in America, to be in the land of opportunity, I kept thinking of my dad because when he was describing, you know, hey, Tommy, you're going to go to college, you're going to make something of yourself, just like my son, and you know, you're going to work hard, and you're going to succeed. That's what my dad wanted for me. I mean, he started work at five in the morning. He would do overtime. He always did overtime. He never, never took, he never rejected overtime once in his life.

20:09He took all the overtime he could get. And so he would often finish at seven in the evening. It was about a half an hour drive back from the factory that he worked at, a home maybe by seven, thirty, eight o'clock. My mother would have a warm meal waiting for him, a glass of wine, and they would talk a little bit in the kitchen by nine, nine, thirty. He was in bed. And rinse, wash, repeat. He just did it week after week, month after month, year after year, never complained. On Saturday, he wouldn't even sleep in. He would get up early. He had to go get the shopping done. He wanted to make sure he would go to the butcher, make sure we had good meat, go to the market, get the best vegetables, the best fruits. He would get his haircut or whatever he needed to get done. Come back, cut the grass, mold the lawn, work on the car. Only Sunday would he relax a little bit. And then Monday, same thing all over again.

21:13And I remember he kept saying I work hard so that you can have a life so that you can take advantage of opportunities. I never had. And honestly, I felt a tremendous pressure, not from him. It was an internal pressure. Just looking at how hard my parents worked and how much they sacrificed for me and my sister. I said, I'm going to work as hard as I can in school. And I'm going to try to achieve as much as I can possibly achieve. Because if they're working that hard for me, I got to at least work that hard for myself. So I know that old immigrant work ethic. I'm a product of it. I live it. I breathe it. I honor it. And to me, that's what made America, frankly, North America. The greatest civilization in the history of the world. And it was those immigrants that really made North America what it is.

22:16And we should not throw it away. Absolutely not. Just my opinion, take it for what it's worth. Kathy in Rochester. Thanks for holding Kathy and welcome. Good morning, Jeff. I can attest to that. I was seeing half Portuguese. My mother had cousins who came to the United States in 1975. And they came here with nothing, nothing. All they could afford to eat were a boiled potatoes. Every time we went to the third floor apartment in New Bedford, they would be boiling potatoes. I was like out of my mind because I thought these people are crazy. Why are they always eating potatoes? But you know, I was young at the time. I didn't realize that's all they could afford. But you know, some of them, one of them in particular, moved to Long Island. And he has a gorgeous home with a tennis court pool, his own dark, his boat in Mauritius, Long Island. He had a cement company. He worked hard. And unfortunately he's a little cripple now due to it. But he's like a multi-millionaire. And I know a lot of people. A lot of other people, Portuguese people who came to this country in the Masonry business, a landscaping building.

23:21And they become millionaires because Portugal was poor. They couldn't make it. They could never get ahead and Portugal. So when they came to the United States, it was a land of plenty. And if they worked hard, they got ahead. And look at all the immigrants used to be in New York City with their fabulous restaurants and delis and meat markets and you know, food markets. You know, they worked hard. They were bakers. And it's just they provided food. They provided resource for everyone. They were fabulous. And all that in New York is all gone because of a socialist, impassile, mandami. But the reason I call Jeff is really that you know, we are never going to change the, the Democrats mind because some of these stupid Democrats, they recently, the last few days, I was in New Bedford. They only arrested eight people. I was hoping they'd arrest more like 800 people. And we have these idiot liberals on this, this website called the New Bedford Light saying, get these bullies out of here. It's un-American. You know, un-American. It's just the opposite of un-American. They don't belong here. These people just don't realize that if you are not come to this country legally, you don't belong here.

24:23So I have the perfect solution to this. But what we need to do is we need to stop all wealth there. Just stop it and say for the people who are illegal, if you want to give them money, you pay for them. You pay higher taxes. You pay another hundred dollars a week or hundred dollars a month and you support them. And the money that's generated from all the liberals who want to support the illegal. Well, no, I look at the I agree with you. We're going to have to look. We have to cut off the welfare to these illegals. Warning. The following song has been rated dangerously catchy and may not be suitable for grownups. Lingo Kids. Only suitable for kids. If a kid's stuck in mom's head, that's not our problem. Mabel Kids. Everything kids love. Download now for free.