They Came Here With Nothing And Now They Have A Store

This is the best article that I have seen come out of the Times dispatch in many, many years (I wonder how it made it past the editors there.) How appropriate that it should come out on the day before Thanksgiving, when natural-born Americans will get the chance to count their blessings, too.

“The standard American workweek lasts 40 hours, thank you very much. Not for the Kim family of Henrico County.
The Kims run a little laundry, the Suds Emporium, in Lakeside: seven days a week and 12 hours a day more or less, 360 days a year.
That's roughly 84 hours a week, week in and week out.
But they're going to take Thanksgiving off and take time to be grateful."Thanks for God, America, the Pilgrim Fathers -- and all Indians," said family patriarch Sung Do Kim, smiling.
Sung Do Kim and his wife, Sang Soon Ro Kim, came to the U.S. from Korea in 1998, seeking better education for their two children.
"My dad always tells me this is an opportunity land," said their daughter, Bong Sun. "Work hard to achieve whatever I plan to do."”

Read it. Email it. Print it out and give it to someone in your sphere of influence. Blog Burst it. If some immigrants can get it, why are some Americans having such a problem with it?