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Skriven 2007-01-28 14:03:15 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av EARL CROASMUN
Ärende: Presidential race
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EARL CROASMUN -> John Hull wrote:
 ~>>>> got some good ideas on handling the wetback problem.

 EC>>> It would be interesting to see what those "good ideas" are, but
 EC> first,
 EC>>> could you elaborate some on this "wetback problem" you speak of?
 EC>>> You could start by explaining what you mean by "wetback."

 ~>> Please, Earl, don't be condescending.  You know perfectly well what the
 ~>> term means.

 EC> My question was what YOU mean by the term.  I am aware of the general use
 EC> of the term.  It is a hateful, racist insult that people use to demean
 EC> other people who may have chosen to spend all their savings and risk their
 EC> lives to try to get to a country where they will find a better life for
 EC> themselves and their children.  But it gets used a bit selectively to
 EC> designate people who came north across the Rio Grande River while ignoring
 EC> people who earlier in history came west across the Atlantic Ocean or south
 EC> across the St. Lawrence River.  That's why I was checking on what YOU
meant
 EC> by the term.


Sorry, but that boat don't float.  In the first place, NOBODY in North America
is a true native.  Humans came to this continent 20,000 years ago from Siberia
across the Bering land bridge, spreading across N. Amer. and south all the way
to Tierra del Fuego in less than 8,000 years.  That's been documented by fossil
remains.

Secondly, when Europeans first came to the New World, it was a virtual
wilderness with only a few million indians in the whole place.

Thirdly, after countries formed and borders where established, we encouraged
immigration because we needed the people to populate the frontier.  By the late
1800's there was no longer a frontier, and that's when we should have started
restricting wholesale immigration.

Fourth, with 300 million of our own citizens, we no longer have the
infrastructure capable of handling millions of people who come in without means
of support, health care, language skills, etc.  20 million illegal aliens (of
all races, creeds, colors, and religions) have nearly bankrupted California,
Arizona, and Texas; have created a permanent underclass of unemployable
Americans who can't afford to work for the slave wages illegals will work for;
and who are working to undermine our political system in a myriad of ways.

These people have no right to be here, have no right to the benefits that
accrue to American citizens who are born here, and have no right to tell me I
owe them anything because I owe them nothing.  On top of everything else, they
are screwing over those foreigners who follow the law and go through the
process of legally becoming citizens.


 ~>> I want the damn border shut down, period.

 EC> Why?

 EC> Just to people, or to goods and services as well?

 EC> Both directions, or just one?

Both stupid questions, and not worthy of an answer.

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