i totally agree with you that we're turning into a nation of xenophobes . . . i wonder whether we actually care about "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" anymore. i mean, granted, some of the people who jump the border are blatantly criminal, and everyone who comes here should probably go through the proper procedures to become citizens, but the only reason why we are are all clambering for giant fences and a policeman every three feet in el paso is because we can't live with the internal inconsistency of letting people come here under the assumption that they're going to contribute something and then discovering that they wind up signing up for all our handouts in droves. that's a problem with the welfare state though, not the immigrants. in the heyday of immigration people would move into ethnic clusters in NYC and set up shop, and while they had all the opportunity in the world to make a fortune, if they didn't secure their own subsistence they were screwed. that's not true today, but it's sure as hell not the mexicans' fault that we've turned semi-socialist in the past century and that people now resent them for "taking" their money, rather than the government for setting up the system that allows them to do that in the first place.
i don't think we're becoming a nation of imbeciles so much as we're becoming a planet of imbeciles. the problem is that if you move away, you might get slightly more intelligent or less blatantly prejudiced individuals, but their governments will want three-quarters of your money and use it to support a dead weight underclass at the expense of the people who are actually productive. i mean, yeah, we fuck up a lot, but we're still the last best hope for humanity. it's not an accident that the richest people on earth are from here, and that they largely started from absolutely nothing.
i had forgotten that you were in c'ville until i saw the whole "nearby" PWC thing . . . i live here too now since i'm going to law school. god, i haven't posted here in a thousand forevers . . . everyone update me on what's been going on in the past, christ, i dunno, forty millennia.
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Originally Posted by atari 2600
I just saw a news report from nearby Prince William County, Virginia that disturbed me.
Turns out there's a referendum ballot about illegal immigration. The county wants authorization to allot fourteen million dollars to police the issue. Well, the county's school system is currently in a thirty-two million dollar deficit shortfall. I suppose those hicks (the woman ranting on TV was some middle-age battle axe in what appeared to be Wal*Mart clothing) don't want to have their taxes raised for schools, but as long as it reinforces their irrational fears and hatred, everything is a-okay.
What these morons fail to realize is that it is the federal government's responsibility to enforce the existing laws that require companies to verify an employee's legal residency status and that these laws are intentionally not being enforced due to political corruption. And you just know these irate rednecks are the same ones who vote Republican.
So the mob approves 14 million and the only thing it guarantees is that no illegal immigrants in the county can get business licenses!
Well, some fat cat is partying it up tonight in anticipation of all that taxpayer money hitting their coffers soon, that's for damn sure. What a bunch of friggen morons.
The U.S.A. is fast becoming a nation of imbeciles and I don't know how much more I can take. It seems to me that it's only a matter of time before the historical revisionists completely take over and strip away our liberties and human rights. And it seems to me that every generation just gets stupider and stupider and hence, only more malleable to being completely controlled and programmed. After all, the young people of today, to list but a few general problematic areas, go to shitty, underfunded schools, with shitty, underpaid teachers and have shitty, substandard food for lunch in the cafeteria. It's sad...the good people should have won the big fight. We've had so many chances to take the money out of politics during the relatively peaceful time of the Cold War. Abuses of contracts were being discovered back then and people were outraged, but somehow they lost their way by being distracted with bullshit. I really do believe we are doomed and I really believe I must seriously start making plans to leave this country.
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