[rageaholic]

Do we have to advertise specifically for "wretched refuse"? I think we have enough already.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping

[AAABEST]

That idiotic poem was written before the welfare state, before the exodus of the third world, before politicians decided they could steal our money for programs designed to garner votes from the "wretched refuse".

They ought to take a jackhammer to it and throw the damn thing into the Hudson River.

[snopercod]

From The Man With the Briefcase:

How blithefully we forget those tens of thousands of brave Chinese people who in peaceful defiance of their autocratic state met in the spring of 1989 to celebrate the concept of freedom, raised a statue to the goddess of democracy (an homage to our own "Liberty Enlightening the World") and were rewarded with tanks, and guns and death. /SNIP/ in the middle of Tianenman Square where thousands had only the day before been killed, arrested or dispersed, here stood one man, standing alone before a line of tanks, refusing to let them pass. Whichever way the lead tank zigged, he zagged.

In your opinion, would these people fall into the category of "wretched refuse", or "huddled masses"?

America is the only remaining country which recognizes the concept of individual rights. Even though Lady Liberty's torch is now just a flicker, freedom-loving people from around the world still want to come here.

How about a trade? We could start by trading socialists in America for freedom-loving foreigners. The country as a whole would be better off.