Responding to a post that stated: "This country was founded on "give us your tired, your poor," etc."
I posted: "This certainly is not what our country was founded on. This is what a foreign government wanted us to do and put it on a statue it gave to us."
You posted the blindingly obvious inconsistency:
"When France gave us the Statue of Liberty"
"Neither that poem, nor the Statue of Liberty, herself, had ANYTHING at all to do with any 'foreign government'"
So, it was given to us by France but it had nothing to do with a foreign government?
Dense or what?
Your lack of any propensity towards logic would, indeed, serve you well as a liberal historian.
Most people and most history books claim that FRANCE gave us the Statue of Liberty. I didn't have the time to post a full, in depth reply, so did a quick one, using "common knowledge"; which is NOT really the case. But, since it most assuredly was NOT really the government of France and since France hadn't sent America any large numbers of immigrants for more than a century prior to the Statue of Liberty, you're stating something patently ridiculous, as fact!
No, this country was NOT founded on "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...", since colonizing North America, predates the poem by centuries! OTOH, Roanoke WAS founded by second sons, yearning to at last own some land. That colony disappeared. Plymouth and other New England states were founded by people yearning for religious freedom, who once they had it, denied it to others ( why do you think R.I. got settled? ), not of their own kind. New Amsterdam was founded TO MAKE MONEY!
Oh yeah...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...I'm a "LIBERAL" historian? In what universe? ROTFLOL
Go learn some factual history and then, AND ONLY THEN, get back to me.