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Note: y you're not taking Americans' jobs Harold Chapman (Denver) Published May 25, 2006 in rockymountainnews.com I just don't get it! Recently, both dailies ran stories depicting foreign workers doing jobs Americans supposedly won't do. One was on a worker who quit his $20-an-hour job to go to the May 1 immigration rally. I'd love to have a job that paid $20 an hour! The other story was about at least three roofers who took off from work to go to the rally and would lose between $120 and $150 each for that day's work. I would love to have a job that paid that much per day! And so would many Americans. Then they had the gall to say they were not taking jobs from Americans. Maybe they should ask all those homeless American veterans who work hard labor for minimum wage through day-labor places. Maybe they should ask the construction worker who came to the Denver Voice newspaper of the homeless a few years ago to complain that he had been looking for work in the construction field but was categorically denied work because he could not speak Spanish and was thus unable to communicate with the other workers. Maybe they should ask me - I have lived in Capitol Hill for seven years and have never heard English being spoken at all the condo sites going up. I do not blame anybody who comes to the U.S. to better their lives, but don't tell the folks mentioned above you are not taking their jobs. And if anyone wants to think of me as a racist for writing these words, you should hear what my Mexican wife has to say about it - she's worse than me! Mention in article about a homeless man named Mendoza who had been murdered: Harold Chapman, who writes for the homeless magazine Denver Voice, said Mendoza saved his life when he lived on the streets. "I had been homeless in Arkansas, but I wasn't used to the cold here," Chapman said. "I found myself something like a carpet and a big cardboard box. He came over realizing someone was under this stuff, kicked it and said, 'Come on.' He had a lean-to, a shelter. "There was probably 6 to 8 inches of snow on the cardboard when he found me."
Note: Public record for Harold: Name: Harold S Chapman Birth Date: 20 Oct 1955 Street Address: 1010 East 10Th Ave City: Broomfield County: Broomfield State: Colorado Zip Code: 80020 Don't sa
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