Slabs and other sorrows
For veterans of Slab City the water at Niland Chamber of Commerce is being shut off. You can still dump tanks there but can't take on water. Shut off 1 Jan '15. Two Rivers rest area Calpat also to clo...
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garyhaupt wrote:bucky wrote:
This is America. Someone will figure it out. Supposedly the CA BOE pension fund owns the land, petition them. Tell them the illegals need the water to survive and then everything will be fine again. Read quick, this may get poofed :).
Illegals? Or do you mean the Vets? The old people? The kids? The artists? The engineers? The Seals have a resting place in there...you mean those illegals? Or were you referring to the hundreds of RVrs that roll into and thru the Slabs between now and March of next year?
Gary Haupt
LOL...I think he was referring to his ancestors who came to this country themselves as illegals. Generations ago there were NO visas to get, no paperwork to be submitted you paid your fare and got on a boat. You arrived at one of the ports in America and all you did was answer a few questions and if you had a few bucks in your pocket you were in. How soon we forget that virtually all of us are decendants of essentially "illegal" immigration. Immigration rules only got started as a result of the Asian influx during the Gold Rush and the building of the railroads and it was all aimed at "Asiatics".
