America no longer white, united, English-speaking

The Miami Herald ^ | 02 April 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[Torie]

I know you don't mince words. I was just not entirely clear what your public policy program was. I am still not. Yes, we disagree about the consequences of it all. I think America's best days are yet ahead. I hope to live long enough to savor some of it.

[wardaddy]

Galicia (Celtic Spain) ..home of the Beard's daddy.

[janetgreen]

700K in housing appreciation

You're wrong. I don't want to argue with you anymore. G'night.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Torie your argument is weak and and is coming in last for realism.

[wardaddy]

Well unless I live to 93 (unlikely), I doubt I will live to see the average American standing 4'11" tall...lol

[Torie]

I just cranked the formula given the variables you offered up. Maybe its only 500K in appreciation. Maybe you spent a lot fixing the house up.

[Clemenza]

Yes...I thought Compton in 1990 looked pretty middle class to me. There are much worse hoods:

When my father was doing a brief stint in LA back in 1970, he drove through South Central LA near the Watts Towers. He found it hard to believe that the "ghetto" in LA consisted of single-family homes with well-tended lawns. Keep in mind that my father is from Newark, New Jersey, so he knows what a REAL ghetto looks like.

[Torie]

Hi Joe. How have you been?

[Travis McGee]

Amen. You are right on.

[El Gato]

That would explain why tejano sounds like polka with a Latin flavor...

It might, but that doesn't seem to be the reason, I think the musical style predates the Germanic invasion of Texas. Tejano music is heavily influenced by Musica Norteno, the music of northern Mexico. Not sure where that style got the "Oompa" sound, but I agree. It reminds me of the "Six Fat Dutchmen", a polka band of the Minnesota/Iowa/Nebraska/Datkotas area from the 1950s and 60s.

[Clemenza]

My home county on Lawn Guyland (Nassau) makes Westchester look like an offshore tax haven. Thank the idiots who think that every little town deserves its own school district, police force, etc., and New York state laws mandating the most generous medicaid benefits in the nation.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Good, you?

[Torie]

What's your property tax rate based on value? I thought you lived in Bay Ridge. You decamped!

[Torie]

Miserable cold, but just great really. Thanks.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Here too. Got down to about 68 today.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Torie]

Odd, that was the same temp I "suffered" about 50 miles down the coast from you.

[Clemenza]

I DO live in Bay Ridge, but I was RAISED in Nassau County. I can't for the life of me remember what the rate was, but I do remember my dad screaming every year when he got the letter from the Mineola Machine. I do know that is (generally) higher than Westchester.

One of the better things about the city is that the property taxes are a bargain compared to suburbia. This is one of the reasons that houses in Bayside (Queens) are generally more expensive per square foot than the ones in Manhasset or New Hyde Park right across the border. That slight difference in price pales in comparison to the amount of taxes you have to pay in Nassau.

Westchester has at least one town that I know of (White Plains) where property taxes are relatively low. Nassau lacks even one town with a substantial commercial property base to take the burden off of homewoners.

[wayne_shrugged]

Race isn't the issue, but the desire of our immigrants to assimilate, including speaking English and learning about the Constitution and what it really means, is.

The main valid point of his piece is that about illegal immigrants who could care less about being American and assimilating.

[rdb3]

rdb3 you were right, I'm out too.

So you see that I was not overreacting.

On matters of race and ethnicity as subjects of threads on Free Republic, I'm out. I won't discuss them anymore.

Hey Ya!