Our (US) $s at work.

[Paul Hoy]

Dotan Cohen wrote:


> On 7/30/05, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
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>> Hmm.... laughing stock of the entire world but, longer lines of folks
>> breaking their necks to get into this country legally or  
>> illegally ;-)
>> Coming to the very country they're laughing at :-))
>>
>> taharka
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>> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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> Now why do you think that is?
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Read the book entitled "Alien Nation" ISBN 0-679-43058-X & you'll get  
your answer ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

Hi,

I had considered emailing a comment about this discussion earlier,  
but didn't think that a Fedora list would be the appropriate forum.

I have since reconsidered.

Regarding the comment that the U.S. has the best social assistance in  
the world ... well .. this is not accurate (see UN statistics to  
verify this).

Second, most of the people that are lined up at the U.S. borders are  
there for that one very insidious reason: the desire for a decent job  
to obtain a better life for themselves and their family (okay, and  
maybe the weather too). If the right were really concerned about the  
employment current U.S. citizens, you'd think that they'd speak up  
about corporations outsourcing, in massive numbers, to foreign  
countries. Now, why do you think the right hesitates to criticize  
corporations? Why do you think that is?

Finally, I found Alien Nation to be banal in its usual right-wing  
alarmist pornography. It's ironic that a country that resents  
immigrants because some of its citizens believe that they drain the  
economy is the strongest in the world, an economy that has been built  
by educated and uneducated immigrants.

And, no, I'm not anti-American. I think there's much greatness to be  
found in the U.S. But, greatness is an extreme, just as America is a  
country of extremes.  But,  if I could get another decent job there,  
I'd be back, lining up at the border :)

Paul Hoy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
(although I lived in LA for six years)