“If 89% of Mexicans were Southern Baptists, I’d be saying the same thing to the SBC.”
No, I don’t think you would.
Please do not tell me what I would do or not. I know myself.
Did you see the report where, along with abortion, the Pope raised immigration with Obama? I’m guessing he wasn’t on the side of strict enforcement of the laws...
I’m not sure I’d hold up the UK as an example of free markets. Their society was and is hierarchical.
People making choices. Freedom. FREE Republic. Think about it.
You wrote:
“Please do not tell me what I would do or not. I know myself.”
Learn to read. I said, “No, I don’t think you would.” That’s my opinion about what you would do. It is not me telling you what you would do. That would be, “No your wouldn’t.”
Learn to read.
“Did you see the report where, along with abortion, the Pope raised immigration with Obama? I’m guessing he wasn’t on the side of strict enforcement of the laws...”
Maybe not. I don’t think Jesus would be either. He said, “Blessed are the poor...” not “Blessed are the native born only.”
“I’m not sure I’d hold up the UK as an example of free markets. Their society was and is hierarchical.”
So is ours. Hierarchy does not negate a free market. Their “hierarchy” - and you’re not using the proper term anyway; you mean “class system” - doesn’t in itself interfere with their free market. After all, almost all of those abusive factory owners came from the middle class and not the upper class. Most of the upper crust wouldn’t be caught dead owning mills or shops. Their wealth was grounded in land ownership. That’s why today most of them are land rich, but cash poor.
“People making choices. Freedom. FREE Republic. Think about it.”
I did and this is what I concluded - just like everyone who lived in the 19th century I today recognize the obvious: people in early industrial society were not nearly as free as we are today. They were less mobile, less wealthy, less educated and often had dramatically fewer choices. Many had no real choice at all.