Bush Says Poverty Can Spawn Violence

Bush Says Poverty Can Spawn Violence

Mass immigration of low-wage labor can cause more poverty(here) which can lead to even more violence(here). The argument has always been, "but the migrant worker keeps the cost of produce down which we all benefit from...."..So we all condone "slave labor"?

Mexico's corrupt government policies against it's own people will never change as long as the U.S. continues to allow "potential revolutionist's" easy access to a simpler solution.

Unfortunately all the "dissolve the border" talk is not coming from just "Mexican" government officials.

I hoped with this admiration we were heading for greatness.... what a disappointment.

I've finally decided it would've been better if Gore had won. At least we'd have a full throated out of the closet liberal in the WH with full pubbie opposition. That would've meant, no Patriot Act, no Homeland Security (anybody know how to say that in German) no in your face Secret Govt and no Model Emergency Health Powers Act (which gives state governors the ability to declare martial law, sieze property as needed, round up people and put them in sports stadiums for mandatory injections of vaccines (who knows what's really in them) etc.). (Read about it at ALEC.ORG)

He talks like Reagan, but governs like Clinton would've if he would've ever taken his job seriously. What a shame that this is the best our political system could produce.

He did not say what the headline implies. I can't remember word for word but he said terrorists take advantage of poverty( Like liberals do to push their ideas of socialism) He said poor people are not violent. He remarked that the terrorists were not poor but people of wealth(the elites)..The remarks in () are my correlations.

Bingo!! Poverty does not spawn terrorism. It may have something to do with violence, but that's only because violence is used to get what they believe is rightfully theirs even though they didn't work for it.

Terrorism is a whole nother ballgame! This Islamic terrorism comes from the Muslim's hatred of Israel and America. Nothing more.

Poverty causes violence is a left wing lie right out of the Karl Marx handbook. If it were true than it would follow that wealth causes lawful behavior. Don't tell me this guy is a conservative anymore.

Actually Karl Marx is a prime example of poverty and class envy being exploited by power hungry madmen (and terrorists) toward their own ambitions throughout history.....which is exactly what Bush is talking about.

What Bush was alluding to was that poverty, when contrasted to the perceived evil of purportedly ill-gotten wealth, is easily exploited by demigods to evil ends. History is rife with examples of this; The terror of the French Revolution, Lenin, Hitler, Mao and Castro to name but a few.

It is no accident that the majority of the 9-11 terrorists were born in Saudi Arabia but were Yemeni Citizens. They were the sons and grandsons of laborers brought into Saudi Arabia to do the stoop labor and service jobs that the Saudi Citizens would not. About 20% of Saudi Arabia's population is in this category.

Can you imagine anything more frustrating than living and laboring in the shadow of opulence knowing that you are prevented from even aspiring to a higher station in life, that you cannot ever be a citizen in the land of your birth?

This pool of frustrated people is trained in Saudi sponsored schools that their plight, and that of the Muslim World in general, is not the fault of their Saudi Muslim Brothers and benefactors but the West and the United States and Israel in General. Graduation for those that learned their lessons best is to the Terrorist Training Camps (all outside Saudi Arabia) and out into the world to take their revenge.

It is my belief that Saudi Arabia is the "Elephant in the Room" and will have to be dealt with sooner rather later.

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