The new USA

Turtle · Oct 16, 2012

You're just coitusing with me, aren't you.

highway star · Oct 16, 2012

Moot said:
Most people remember Blazing Saddles for the gratuitous potty humor of the campfire scene though.

You're not saying that like it's a bad thing, are you?

cheri1122 · Oct 16, 2012

Turtle said:
You're just coitusing with me, aren't you.

What Highway Star said.

x06col · Oct 19, 2012

cheri1122 said:
Their race shouldn't matter, but to many people, it does. Immigrants from Mexico, south America, or Africa are as welcome as the Irish were in the days when most every factory and boarding house posted a sign: No Irish Need Apply.
Still, LDB makes a valid point: why do we continue to welcome more people when we can't adequately provide [employment] for those already here? Our social fabric is straining at the seams already, and our melting pot is perilously close to boiling over, IMO.

"Provide employment"?? Ya gotta be kidd'in?? What would be wrong with an immigration policy that kinda looks at "what you can do for your Country" rather than the other. Our app reviewers seem to need to look at what the anticipated contributions may be rather than (sob,sob) "I jes wanna be there. Or, more voters for Barry. Consider what the Hawk has in his neighborhood......calls to prayer every three hours or so. That would be plenty relaxing to me.

What our Embasy pukes need to do, is leave their compound once in a while, so they truly understand what they are taking an application from. Feel yer pain in TN there bud, but, imagine your thumb screws will get a lot tighter.

cheri1122 · Oct 19, 2012

x06col said:
"Provide employment"?? Ya gotta be kidd'in??

Without employment, people haven't the luxury of considering what they can do for their country, rather than vice versa. When I volunteer my time or donate money, it's my employment that allows me the freedom to do it. Charity is a good thing, but one must take care of one's own responsibilities first, and that should be as true for the country as it is for its' individual citizens.

What would be wrong with an immigration policy that kinda looks at "what you can do for your Country" rather than the other.

What would be wrong with it is an influx of people willing to work for coolie [if I may use such a pejorative] wages because it seems a princely sum compared to what they'd get in their own country. That allows wages to be kept artificially low for everyone at the bottom, totally distorting the whole supply and demand philosophy of capitalism.

Our app reviewers seem to need to look at what the anticipated contributions may be rather than (sob,sob) "I jes wanna be there.

How do you know what they're looking at? Last thing I read was that the US is in need of science and engineering whizzes - what we ought to be reviewing is our educational policies, IMO.

Or, more voters for Barry.

Another thing you just know, uh huh.

Consider what the Hawk has in his neighborhood......calls to prayer every three hours or so. That would be plenty relaxing to me.

Did you have the same objections to church bells ringing out through the neighborhood, too? Or does freedom of religion refer to just YOUR religion? Gets a bit sticky when your religion isn't the one that dominates, eh?

What our Embasy pukes need to do, is leave their compound once in a while, so they truly understand what they are taking an application from. Feel yer pain in TN there bud, but, imagine your thumb screws will get a lot tighter.

You 'feel his pain', huh? Because it hurts to discover that citizens who don't look or sound or worship as you do have equal rights - those thumbscrews are getting tighter for you too.
Oppression is just outrageous, innit?

21cExp · Oct 22, 2012

Not to potentially further stir up reactions to the original post, but I can't resist (I tried, gave up once, had to come back) responding to this post:

Moot said:
Hey, my wife is ½ Irish and my kids are ¼ Irish.

So your kids, they are, well, like 1/4 Irish and 3/4 Mootish?

Lord help us.

Ragman · Oct 22, 2012

21cExp said:
Not to potentially further stir up reactions to the original post, but I can't resist (I tried, gave up once, had to come back) responding to this post:

So your kids, they are, well, like 1/4 Irish and 3/4 Mootish?

Lord help us.