Saint wrote:eCat wrote:hedge wrote:Hatred isn't right or wrong, it just is...
why is it hatred to want the best for your country and the people that are citizens of it?
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Because fear drives hatred and that drives decisions that aren't always the best for the country. Like everything in life, immigration issues in a country full of immigrants is a complex issue. When petty emotions take center stage, the decision-making process takes a back seat. What we mainly lack in this country is the ability to inform ourselves and make solid decisions.
there are no petty emotions involved in the idea that illegal immigration is keeping wages artificially low for non skilled working Americans.
We won't take care of the homeless people we have now, yet certain leaders in this country want to let Mexico and Central America just dump their impoverished onto us and let it be our problem. This isn't 1868 where the country was primarily agricultural and it was wide open space. We needed immigrants then to help grow the country then. What we didn't have back then is a government sponsored safety net that provides food and housing for every American citizen living below a certain income. We have something like 92 million people out of the workforce right now.
There is nothing too complex to understand about pushing for strict controls on immigration that we can control. The immigrants we need now better have an engineering or medical degree.
Instead of looking at our country and asking if we have room for immigrants, or thinking we have some obligation to take them because we have a statue talking about give us your tired, your poor, ..... we need to be holding Mexico and Central Americas feet to the fire for why they haven't been building a country that can support their own citizens, given we have shipped millions of jobs down there.
They actively push their citizens to come here and then send money back.
We don't have Mexican Americans, we have Mexicans in America.
As for Muslims, as I said before, when a chinese guys start shooting up a place or plants a bomb while praising Buddha, then I'll stop focusing on Islam as a threat to Western culture.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.
