Posted on 05/30/2007 3:34:26 PM PDT by rellimpank
Americans -- at least really stupid Americans like George Bush -- believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic economy. On this view, most of the existing world and almost all of world history is a freakish aberration.
In fact, the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world.
The British Empire once spread the culture of prosperity around the globe -- Judeo-Christian values, tolerance, equality, private property and the rule of law. All recipients of the British Empire's largesse benefited, but the empire's most successful colony was the United States.
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The pathetic truth is that there are freepers who will put you down or mock you for even suggesting that some Americans are paying the price in blood for letting these interlopers in.
We should ask the film maker Adrienne Shelley....but we can't becasuse she's dead, beaten to death by an illegal because she complained about the noise he was making and he was afraid that she'd report him.
But what the hey? Who cares how many victims there are as long as some among us can make a buck from the invaders?
No, the job surplus isn’t “only” at the bottom of the scale, but that’s where the big numbers are.
WRT doctors and nurses in particular, there’s a *whole different* issue specific to them that IMHO is not getting nearly enough attention. There’s a definite shortage developing for doctors and nurses, and it’s not about immigration. It’s been developing for years and it’s about medicare, malpractice insurance and a host of other things killing off our medical system. It’s a little off-topic, but it needs to start getting attention.
Ok - I think the trade is fair.
Your life for a conversation with Ann Coulter.
Then - a few minutes of solitude to enjoy as you see fit.
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Forgive me. I am sorry. (I am also too stupid to spell arithmetically right...)
Maybe in your family. My children worked hard jobs AND went to college. Tired of the lazy American children mantra.
Anne tells it like it is!!!
You said: No, the job surplus isn’t “only” at the bottom of the scale, but that’s where the big numbers are.
WRT doctors and nurses in particular, there’s a *whole different* issue specific to them that IMHO is not getting nearly enough attention. There’s a definite shortage developing for doctors and nurses, and it’s not about immigration. It’s been developing for years and it’s about medicare, malpractice insurance and a host of other things killing off our medical system. It’s a little off-topic, but it needs to start getting attention.
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We are at full employment definitionally with under 5% unemployment. Every American who wants a job can get one. Some non-skilled labor and a fair amount of construction and tradesmen work IS going to Hispanic immigrants, legal and illegal, but if there were Americans wanting to do this work, willing to work hard and put in an honest day’s work, they’d get the nod over immigrants (legal and illegal) every time. The fact is, too many of us have grown fat and happy with how easy life is here, some of us to the point that we didn’t try hard in school and make the most of the opportunities presented to us. Now some, challenged by immigrants’ willingness to do that work, even for less pay, don’t like it. There is no excuse, even with illegal immigrants here, for anyone not to succeed in America. Of course it would have been easier if there were more people with a real work ethic and resolute determination to get ahead. It is hard to blame uneducated non-English speaking immigrants for coming here and beating natives on their home field.
That said, our porous borders are a danger to everyone here. They MUST be closed. Those here illegally should be sent back or heavily punished for their lawbreaking. Let them come back under a guest worker program legally. Cut out welfare and other entitlements for non-citizens (oh yeah, and cut out voting too). The truly industrious ones will stay, and we can always use more hard workers to help pull wagon that many American citizens seem to want to ride in.
Yep, the Mexican transporting weed hidden between candy in his semi yesterday in Minnesota was workin' pretty hard.
Yikes! did I type that garbage? ;)
No, you responded to it! (and quite well) :)
No problem !
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
great quote
Now when are some of our other eminent exiles going to return?
“Are we conservatives really expected to remain steadfast in a romance that one party to the love affair has irreparably broken off?”
Good line, well put.
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