>>>>Ya know now this has me so tweeked that to prove a point (or, I suppose prove me wrong) that I'm going BACK to the Home Depot before I come to the office tommorrow and take a little survey.
>>>>I'm going to toss out a number - lets say 8 out of 10 (80%) will not either a SS card or a green card.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone want to toss out a number?
>>>
>>>Around here, it would probably be at least 9 out of 10. For awhile it got so bad that I couldn't even take my pickup truck to Home Depot early in the morning because half a dozen men would jump in the back.
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>>Oook. Poll results:
>>Number of job seekers: 41
>>Number of guys it green cards: 2
>>Number of guys with SS card: 1
>>Number of admiting to using stolen ID: 11
>>Number not wanting to answer: 4
>>Number of guys with USA driver's license: 1
>>Number speaking fluent english: 4
>>Number speaking some english: 3
>>
>>I was rather suprised how straight forward these guys were. One thing I didn't take into account was the stolen id's, which all said they found at flea markets. Even more funny was that 3 of the guys were using the exact same ID - only thing different was the picture...haha
>>Out of the 37 willing to answer only ONE - just one was a USA citizen and only two had green cards....anyway guess I'll let the numbers speak for themselves......
>
>But the question remains. Were those 3 guys "obviously illegal"?

Well - when I suggested that there was a bunch of obviously illegal aliens I wasn't trying to imply that all members of the group were or attempt in my mind to detmine which were and which were not. I figured that it's be 80% and I was pretty close.

>I think most of us understood what you meant, but I have to agree that 'obviously illegal' is a very poor choice of words.

It was a bad way to word it only because some people WANTED it to be a bad way to say it. I think everyone has had a clear understanding of what I meant from the begining and this 'everyone is a racist' spin it took is simply ridicilious. I said the group was obviously a bunch of illegal aliens - and guess what? - the group is made up of a bunch of illegal aliens - and it was obvious - so how can this be a poor choice of words? It is what it is...
One part of me wants to back down and just say it was a bad choice of words because it started an argument - but the other 1/2 of me says to stand firm because there was nothing wrong with the comment to begin with and the only reason the arugment exists is because someone wanted to put a 'polictial correctness - everyone is a racist' tag on it and it's just not the case. Arrrggg!