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To: spintreebob
Those poor immigrant workers oppressed by capitalism are so oppressed that they are able to buy large homes in my middle class suburb.

Capitalism?

Is everyone else able to buy large homes in your middle class suburb because they don't pay taxes AND they get free medical care too?

36 posted on 04/21/2006 8:11:53 AM PDT by lewislynn (Fairtax = lies, hope, wishful thinking, conjecture and lies. (no it's not a mistake)
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To: lewislynn

I know these homeowners. Even when they can't vote, they put Bush and local GOP yard signs in their lawn. Every single one of them has FICA, medicare, Fed and State income tax withheld from their paycheck.

Most lack health insurance (as do my family and I). We lose much less work due to (feigned) illness then those with bennies. We visit medical providers much less often. We (in IL) take much less government aid of any type than do other parts of the population. In my suburb, while home values have skyrocketed (due to demand exceeding supply) the crime rate has gone down, DUI and auto crashes have gone down, domestic disturbance calls have gone done. Life is just a little short of perfect.

Of course, my suburb was known as Hangover Park due to the type of people who lived in it before the immigrants took over.

The ironic thing is that as immigrants become "Americanized" they increasingly take unemployment comp and other "bennies" that their non-American value system despised. Especially in the Mexican culture, to be a "hombre" is to "work". To be unemployed (for whatever reason) is a disgrace to the entire extended family that is the safety net of the culture when there is no government safety net.


52 posted on 04/21/2006 10:39:04 AM PDT by spintreebob
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