Venezuelan Middle Class Flees Chavez Rule Of Hate

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-5-2006 | Sophie Arie

[Polybius]

Atlas is beginning to shrug down south.

Atlas is now living on Key Biscayne.

[HardStarboard]

>>>She told me how there was no future for members of the middle class in her country. I think she will do well here.<<<

And I hope she does. But it is self defeating to let every middle class citizen from a budding thug-dictatorship immigrate to the United States.

Their flight to America just makes it easier for the dictator to consolidate power. We need the middle class to stay - and fight for democratic values or we will soon have nothing but pure dictatorships in South America; and an even larger group of unstimulated Hispanics here than currently.

About a year ago I came back to the states from Barbados thru Miami International at about 7:00 PM on a Saturday. I was caught up in a human wave of immense proportions going thru Immigration and Customs of mostly Hispanic folks entering at the same time.

There was no way that the border protection folks could cope....inspection and screening was a hit and miss proposition. I estimate there were at least 2 and possibly 3 thousand all entering the US at the same time. Maybe that was a peak hour - it is doubly scary to think that an influx of this size goes on hour after hour, day after day.

I lost all hope in border Protection at that point - without a through gutting of our State Department, a sea change in how we approach the problem, and a President that will sign on to limited growth of immigrants, this country is being quickly overrun.

[Army Air Corps]

Leave it to a follower of a failed economic system to destroy a country brimming with potential. What can one expect from a system based upon envy, sloth, and hatred?