EPGAH
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ORIGINAL: DMFParadox As for the economy, the cycle turns. But don't blame the immigrants. American society is riding the wave of complex information and social systems. The infrastructure and gross production are getting neglected a bit in the excess of attention spent on support services, and music/entertainment. What's amazing about this day and age though is that effort spent on, say, entertainment, and the innovations resulting from it, can have in very few steps an impact on factory productivity. Hey, guess what? You could start a business and hire some mexicans, how about that? Then you get your cake and eat it too; raising the quality of life for americans (you) AND immigrants. And the gross national product to boot. But most people don't think like that. They want to stay lazy, and wish the problems in their own lives away. Or tell the government to fix it. Ugh. I'm sorry, what? Exactly what part of the infrastructure do the "immigrants" (More and more of which nowadays are illegal) not stress? Education? Medical? Electrical? Water? Sewage? Hell, even Internet is now offered in Spanish--pretty amazing for a people who are only here to "Do the Jobs Americans Won't Do"(TM)! (And note, I am NOT saying we haven't neglected the infrastructure; we have indeed, but there's no need to "stress-test" a neglected infrastructure with a few MILLION more unpaid or partially-unpaid "customers"!) LadyEllen seems to want to admire the immigrants' "cleverness" at having found a way to cheat the system, or at least property-taxes, paying in less while still making ever-increasing demands (pulling out MORE) on the services funded by the very taxes they're cheating! Yes, very "clever"--now pay up! Or should legitimate citizens have to pay more to cover the shortfall? I think that will only increase the resentment... (Apologies requested in advance if I misinterpreted your post, LadyEllen) As to hiring immigrants, that sounds like a great, if hypocritical idea...Hiring the very people who are overtaxing (And tax-evading) in our country? Plus, most CHOOSE not to be able to understand me...After 159 years, you'd think they could either stay on their side of a border set by a war they started (and lost!) or learn at least a rudimentary level of our language before crossing... As to LEGAL border-crossing being too expensive, it's SAFER, and even "coyotes" charge for their ILLEGAL services! Plus they wouldn't have to worry about "heartless" ICE agents "breaking up families" when the illegals CHOOSE to leave their kids in America "for a better life"! And as you said, it's maids, nannies, and orange-pickers coming from Mexico (And MS13 and other criminal enterprises setting up "branch offices" in America, but people overlook that, 'cause it's "racist", right?) I'm a computer-repairman, having someone working for me who can't even understand the language would be a significant barrier to learning! Oddly, this is being "discovered" in underfunded public schools across the nation--and the illegals want us to cut funding in half, and set up a "separate but equal" Spanish-language set of classes! In addition to violating "Brown vs. Board of Education", it's a FINANCIALLY stupid idea...especially considering that as stated above, the invaders have found a way to pay less than their share of the costs for the educational system AND they have more children on average than Americans or even LEGAL immigrants! Their whole culture seems to recoil from learning and assimilating the way fictional vampires recoil from a crucifixes! Of course, this is ONLY an attempt to preserve their culture, right? As I stated in another post, their culture is what made THEIR country the way THEY wanted it. OUR country is (more or less) the way WE want it, and since it's good enough for them to (continuously) invade, why should WE change for THEM, rather than THEM change for US? As to the quality of life, I don't see how MORE and NOISIER neighbors, MORE crime, MORE graffiti improves anything...Maybe I just didn't take the class "Gangland Blight as Art"? P.S. Their status as a slave class is VOLUNTARY, and is no worse than ours would be if we invaded Mexico--Heck, check Mexico's immigration laws: LEGALS are not even allowed to own property or hold office! Our LEGAL immigration system is much more open than theirs, and they still choose to SNEAK in, rather than WAIT to come in legally, or even better, STAY HOME and improve Mexico!
< Message edited by EPGAH -- 11/2/2007 8:43:36 AM >
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