[Jameison]

"It's so nice of you to point out how important all of those legal immigrants are in New York City in a deliberate attempt to obscure "

Naaah.
No obscuring nothing.
You never mentioned legal or illegal in your post that I was replying to.
I merely pointed out that we have plenty of legal immigrants in New York, including highly qualified PhD's in science from Hungary, Russia, Poland etc, as well as models from the Czech Replublicac etc who are bringing in skills that are making great contributions to the city


" Your timing couldn't have been much worse, since NYC's esteemed Marxist mayor Bloomberg was down in ."

Bloomberg, who is one of the greatest capitalists of his generation (having spent most of his life making money on Wall Street, and founding Bloomberg Financial), will be pretty surprised to hear that he is Marxist.
Agian, nothing wrong with my timing. I talked about legal immigarnts, with desireable skills.

[Alberta's Child]

You never mentioned legal or illegal in your post that I was replying to.

Maybe I should have been more direct. Illegal is exactly what I meant in my reference to people who have "no business being here."

Bloomberg, who is one of the greatest capitalists of his generation (having spent most of his life making money on Wall Street, and founding Bloomberg Financial), will be pretty surprised to hear that he is Marxist.

I don't care what his background is. He's a freaking Marxist in his capacity as mayor of New York. You'll probably find the same emotional pathology at work inside the head of that other "great capitalist" right across the river -- Gov. Corzine of New Jersey.

One of the great ironies in this country is that Big Government is often only rivaled by Big Business when it comes to its anti-capitalist bent. It's no coincidence that this kind of crap has become increasingly common in New York City, where major corporations of all kinds (from Wall Street brokerage houses to the New York Times) negotiate steep tax abatements that no small business owner would ever be permitted to avail himself of. (FYI -- this is one reason why the commercial rent tax is still in place despite Rudy Giuliani's 1993 campaign promise to eliminate it.)