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Re: Isn't this an oxymoron?  

By: killthecat in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
Fri, 18 May 12 2:53 AM | 68 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 		Msg. 42176 of 65535
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Times have changed. We already have a mature population of over 300 million, and we don't need additional low-skilled immigrants (unless you're keen on driving down wages and crippling workers' ability to defend themselves in the market). It becomes so difficult to do social and economic planning for the difficult years ahead without having a good handle and limits on our people, their needs, and their skills.

Now with insolvency, gross distribution of wealth, mandatory austerity, and Scumbags controlling our country on the very near horizon, let's defend our people, not bring in more souls that we can't properly cope with.


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Re: Isn't this an oxymoron?
By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Fri, 18 May 12 2:13 AM 		Msg. 42175 of 65535

Your use of the term 'immigrant' is troubling in that at one time the Irish were 'immigrants' which were not seen as being welcome here, which could also be said for any number of ethnic groups which are deemed as regular Americans now. After all, when was the last time someone with the name of Schwartz or Eisenhower or Becker was looked down on as 'dirty krauts' from Germany? And then there were the Chinese who it was OK for them to come and work on the railroads but an early example of those so-called 'controlled immigration' rules were directed toward Asians yet today many in our society don't even consider them in the same class of immigrants as those with Hispanic surnames, treating them with almost no stigmas at all and in some cases even remarking that they even higher moral standards and work ethics than even long time citizens. And speaking of many of those families with Hispanic surnames, what about the people already living on land which eventually became parts of the US, such as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California? Or for that matter, Hawaii and Alaska with their large non-white, non-European populations. Yes, we are a land of immigrants, but many of the people looked down as being 'immigrants' today may have roots which go back much further than the first white northern-European arrivals to our shores.

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