Posted on 10/25/2006 7:02:29 AM PDT by 13Sisters76
I will be voting for Sonny Perdue down here in Georgia- and with some enthusiasm. He is a pretty good guy.
Just for comedy's sake, Jesse Jackson proclaimed his support for Perdue's opponent. Talk about the "kiss of death"- I'm still laffin'!
I just wish it was possible for someone other than a democrat or republican to get elected. I don't think I will see it in my lifetime though.
"I must ask- your assertion that there is no immigrant problem in Europe gave me pause. I spent three years in Germany and one of the biggest complaints I heard from German and French citizens was about the "immigrant problem". There was a lot of hard feeling for the Arab and Polish immigrants whose numbers grow by the day...were they just pulling everyone's leg?"
When I said we, I didn´t mean Europeans, thank God the Unification of Europe has not come to that, I of course ment we, Icelanders. But when the Brussel powers have succesfully destroyed our national identities, then maybe people will say we-Europeans, lets hope it will never come to that (or has it allready?), because the very nature of a unified Europe is Anti-Americanism
I meant, that here in Iceland there are not illegal immigrants. Maybe it is blue-eyed of me to assume there are none, now that we are part of the Schengen (open borders within Europe) agreement, but I just can´t see that it is possible to live here for any time without an ID number, and you will not get that except having permission.
But you are right, in Europe there is a considerable immigration problem, specially as there has be no demand for the immigrants to assimilate. And unlike here in Iceland, they have not even be expected to work for a living, wich has increased their isolation.
The US is of course an immigration country and it has been assimilating foreigners from the day it was birthed, it knows how to do it properly, the European countries need to learn from the US about that. Other thing is that the biggest share of your immigrants, the hispanics, are from a rather compatible culture to yours, they are cristians, speak a western language and have western cultural background.
The biggest portion of European immigrants (whew, I nearly said ours) is on the other hand from a rather different culture than ours. That and the post-christian culture in Europe, socialism and elitism is a deadly mixture.
In Iceland, you can´t emigrate except if you get work, we have very few muslim immigrants, as our immigration did not pick up until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, so most of them are from Poland and East Europe. We have also made it harder for people to get here on the basis of families, wich has been the biggest contributor to the huge immigration numbers in Europe.
We have been considering a guest worker program, but I doupt it will happen. But we are beginning to be more picky of who can get here and who not, opening up more for people from Europe, but all but closing off for other parts of the world.
I understand the neccasity to make all immigration legal, but it seems to me it is something like trying to keep the lid on a top of a boiling pot, if the immigration laws are to strict, specially as it seems to be so easy to go to the US legally.
But the US is the third most populous nation of the world, and the only western nation to be growing naturally. You are economically the strongest, and you also, have enough room geographically for a lot more people. Following immigration is always change, and I would understand that people are afraid of that, but more people will make the US stronger, just as everyone is afraid of the strenght of China and India, there is no end in the strength of the US if they will continue to grow.
I am not sure if a guest workers program is the right thing for you or not, but at least, if you are going to try to do something to seal the southern borders, you will have to do something to led the steam out, unless the pot will blow.
Ref. Post #111:
It ain't happening.
After all, it IS the company that you keep.
Lew Rockwell libertarian? Don't think so... or were you talking about the Libertarians that like to hold their meetings at nudist camps?
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Constitutional Party is my choise of Third Party instead...
No, I meant the libertarians who want federal government to defend the nation, protect the borders, and otherwise leave us the hell alone.
"I'd rather vote for a bad Republican than a good Democrat.
After all, it IS the company that you keep."
So you think keeping company with bad people will somehow make you good?
The point which apparently went over the top of your head was that Republicans are "good" even with a few bad apples, while Democrats are "bad" because they only have a few good apples.
Didn't go over my head. Just seeing the implications of what you said.
Not sure which ones those are... last I saw... libertarians were for open borders....
Source. LP.org... your party platform is in blaring contridiction.
http://www.lp.org/issues/immigration.shtml
There are libertarians and Libertarians. Open borders is one of the reasons I do no sport the big L.
OK, I am game, where is your party platform then?
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