Reply #3: No one else will do the work? [View All]

[Deja Q]

I've no idea where that line is coming from...

The rest is true.

Probably.

The fact is, the honky ancestors left England to escape religious persecution combined with taxation without representation, came to America, then burned people they deemed were witches and kept slaves because THEY didn't want to do the work. (Washingon, Jefferson, Franklin, et al, are said to have been progressive for their time, but I am no historian so I'm not going to judge them either way for the Constitution.)

I am for controlled immigration and I want to see people come in to help America. Not help themselves at the needless expense of everybody else. That's sick. We're still a community, whether we want to admit it or not. I am not anti-capitalism, a communist, or anything else. I am something akin to a JFK democrat, the mantra here being "Ask not what your country can do for you". And there is nothing wrong with that.

Tribalism is inevitable. But only a tribe that gives a damn will prosper. And I'm seeing little of that. BY people who were born here, by people being shipped here via H1B (a sheer disuse of taxpayer funds), or by jobs being shipped out of here.

Before anyone starts with the 'native Americans' rebuttal, riddle me this: When do we look at the future instead of wallowing in the past, which will change nothing? After all, ask any Mexican who didn't give up his religion for Cortez. That's right, Cortez invaded a country, uprooted their society, then shoved his religion down the native Mexicans' throats while slicing the throats of the Mexicans who refused. :think: (Columbus too was Spanish, Cristóbal Colón... but the venture he took at the time was impressive, risky, and brave; but I do not know if it was true he had a field day slaughtering the natives...)