[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
Okay.
You’re missing the point, I think. IF we are soon to have a glut of cheap unskilled labor, and you want to get something out of it, think outside the box. This might soon be a good time to start a business which takes advantage of the changing business climate. Bitching isn’t going to help you. Being the boss is how you get ahead in this life anyway.[/quote]
My favorite quote is from Albert Einstein:
“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”
Americans are in this mess because of apathetic attitudes like your’s. There is a huge long term costs for the short term profits we’ll reap from illegals. What do I do? Start up a construction company and hire half a dozen illegals? Skip out on all the taxes and retire on the west coast? Hello! Some of us still have redeemable souls.
[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
You say they just want to come to America to use us, right? Well, if they live here and vote here, that makes them Americans whether they want to admit it or not. They can wave 1000 Mexican flags, have a giant burrito float in the Saint Paddy’s Day Parade, and name their kids Taco, Peso, and Bandito… they are still Americans.[/quote]
I’ll call them Americans when they start shoveling dirt on me. Just because our corrupt systems embraces them so, I do not think for one minute that the majority of America shares your opinion.
[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
Have a little faith in OUR culture, man. You think we are such pussies that we are just going to fade away because we annex Mexico? I laugh at that. Sorry, but that’s ridiculous.[/quote]
We’ve been annexing Mexico slowly for the last thirty some years. We’ve been sending our jobs overseas for about twenty. Are things getting better for today’s young Americans? Survey says:
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/vodkajim/housingbubble/
[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
I have this idea that you guys are thinking this is disaster because you see them all as a drain on us. Change gears… maybe this is the final excuse we’ve been waiting for to get REAL welfare reform pushed through. If we can’t afford to keep things the way they are, then it will have to change, right? [/quote]
This is unfortunately what the “masterminds” behind our current administration believe. While their political theory is genius; they are as equally incompetent in economic theory as they are in their tactical ones. However, to their credit I can quote from HL Mencken:
“Nobody ever got poor betting on the stupidity of the American public.”
For every dollar you save by starving single white mothers and their child(ren) (who make up the majority of welfare recipients - Suprise suprise) you could make a thousand by stopping corporate welfare. But I digress.