Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
Some day?
Calm down man. You're getting irrational here. I'm signing off and going to lunch to get away from all these maniacs on this site right now...lol.
A good portion of the English Language DID NOT come from Mexico. That is not to say no words did, but a "good portion" most certainly did not.
I suggest before you rewrite the History of the English Language, you actually read texts already written on said subject:
Indo-European and Germanic Influences
English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today. The Indo-European family includes several major branches:
* Latin and the modern Romance languages;
* The Germanic languages;
* The Indo-Iranian languages, including Hindi and Sanskrit;
* The Slavic languages;
* The Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian (but not Estonian);
* The Celtic languages; and
* Greek.
The influence of the original Indo-European language, designated proto-Indo-European, can be seen today, even though no written record of it exists. The word for father, for example, is vater in German, pater in Latin, and pitr in Sanskrit. These words are all cognates, similar words in different languages that share the same root.
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http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm
I understood them perfectly, to the extent they were intelligable.
Go back and read them again,
I'm not a glutton for punishment.
...then think about it hard and unemotionally until tomorrow. Then get back to me.
No, because then there will be ten more apologists for invasion to deal with.
Remember, you have to have low-skilled workers to keep the business going to provide jobs for all the highly paid American workers.
We have plenty already. They're called 'teenagers' and 'welfare recipients'.
BTW, illegal immigrants don't get paid enough to have any significant impact on real estate prices.
You're ignorant.
The feds need to pick up the tab for hospital costs and that is starting to happen in this year's budget.
Your statist/socialist mentality is astounding.
I want to sharply reduce the number of new immigrants and run a background check on all of them, but it's a really bad idea to force all the illegals out of the country.
Lies and obfuscation aren't getting you any further than they are getting George W. Bush.
The pilgrims were illegal immigrants.
And to the extent he masquerades as a conservative, he does affirmative damage to the next generation's understanding of what conservative values are or should be. His public attacks on true conservatives demonstrate a truly divisive and destructive bent. His revisionist immigration and deficit-spending politics and "see-no-evil" China apologetics...are not simple triangulations. They are destructive of all the ground that Ronald Reagan won in the hearts and minds of the vast majority of Americans. GWB is lamely trashing Reagan philosophy, and policies, while praising him faintly with his lips.
These bad deeds by GWB have borne a truly evil political fruit, that can be quantitatively measured: When Bush came in, Clinton was truly despised across the land, now he has so refurbished and rehabilitated him that Xlinton has a 65% favorable rating!
I have a supposition for you:
I suppose these are your opinions, speculation, and conjecture.
You have no sources to cite to back up your claims of any kind of devastation upon America's economy with the loss of "all illegals" from America.
And I presume you are not factoring in, either, the DRAIN to our society, in the billions, for their medical care, jail, extra law enforcement needs, educational burden in elementary schools, burden in higher educational settings, drug smuggling, rapes, murders, drunken driving accidents, etc.
Oh, the feds will pay for those hospital costs. Great! Hey, wait, don't we taxpayers pay for the feds?
Maybe the employers who benefit from the cheap labor could pay the $89,000 each illegal costs the taxpayers. They never seem to volunteer to pony up.
...run a background check on all of them.
Right, as if that is going to happen.
I don't think it is trivial at all, I am just trying to inject a little balance.
The pilgrims were illegal immigrants.
The indians didn't enforce their immigration laws and look what happened to them...If the invasion continues will the Mexicans give me a Casino to live off of?
touche.
So, if I find that my business partner has been engaging in illegal business practices and cooking the books to avoid paying taxes, but it is critical to the bottom line of my business and the financial impact of correcting the illegal activity would disrupt my business, then, in your mind, I should just continue to let my business partner continue his illegal activities?
Yeah! And then they stole the land from Indians. So, I guess it is OK with you if I come over and shove you off your property and lay claim to it because that's what the pilgrims did.
I can't believe you seriously posted this comment. It is almost as stupid as Dane's distracting drivel.
"Every time he speaks about immigration, he encourages people to flood our borders."
Which is what he wants. He ain't that dumb.
Just what we need on these immigration threads, another illegal immigration apologist. By the way, illegal aliens who are currently in the United States aren't in "their" country. They're in somebody else's country and they're there ILLEGALLY.
I am sick of you "conservatives" sometimes.
And we conservatives are sick of people like you who refuse to put the United States and Americans first.
Spanish, the language spoken in Mexico and most of South America is also comes from Latin.
That's why the call it Latin America.
How do you feel about illegal drug dealers? They make plenty of profits.
Personally, I am a huge fan of legally earned profits. It is profits from illegal activity like hiring illegal aliens that I object to.
But my point in my previous post was that the idea that cheap illegal labor results in cheaper prices for consumers is an economic fallacy. The savings do not get passed on. Prices are based on supply and demand. If you look at a supply and demand graph you will find quantity on one axis and price on the other. You will not find the cost of labor anywhere on the graph because it has nothing to do with the price. The producers pocket the labor cost savings as illegal profits.
Really? What law(s) did the Pilgrims violate by coming to North America?
Your good!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1530000/posts
Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529927/posts
CIS - Canada: The Organized Crime Marketplace in Canada
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