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The New Colossus

Posted by khalling 9 years, 10 months ago to Education
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Poem by Emma Lazarus.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”


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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Which will lead to people coming up with new ways to get past the border. The drug lords already have "stealthy" unmanned submarines to carry the stuff far up either coast of the US. How long before those subs show up with people inside them?
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  • Posted by MagicDog 9 years, 10 months ago
    Take away the welfare, jobs and don't let deported aliens back in. US employers have thousands of humble lackeys to choose form. American citizens go without jobs. This land is my land and don't forget who built it.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand

    I take great solace in realizing even the best teachers can reach those who refuse to be reached ergo sum keep on trucking. Both Bajas in overnight drive? That took some big brass ones.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I make no apologies. If you consider me "caught", then by your definition I am "caught".
    When I said "dragged the values of their own countries with them", I am referring to people I know personally. Most such internationals that I know are Caribbean, Arabic, Indian, or Chinese. Some choose to assimilate into American culture. Roughly half don't.

    I don't know much about Mexican values and don't have much basis for making a statement about that. I see very few Mexicans here.

    What I am saying is that American individualism and exceptionalism are now considered racist, and therefore it is time to shrug or leave to somewhere where such values are treated with the same honor that the sign of the dollar is in AS.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Notice, it also doesn't guarantee happiness. Only the freedom to Pursue happiness. The way the latest generation (those that can read, that is) understand it, is that they should be guaranteed happiness, which means that they should be provided with happiness in the form of money and stuff. To them, freedom means free stuff. Not my grandchildren! I hear them talking that way I'll have their father smack 'em upside the head.(They're too big for me. Grandson David alias the Karate Kid got his black belt at age 12.)
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  • Posted by 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    you do not. :( us, working it with logic and reason and handing out that book. OMG, I sound like a thumper :)
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  • Posted by JCLanier 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    jb: A profound commentary. Thank you.
    So true -and it hurts.
    It is a war of attrition against all that we hold most dear... and straight out of AS. The slow, continuos eroding of individual rights, of freedom which is barely perceptible -that is the real danger. What do people expect after eight years of obfuscation.

    "Gutta cavat lapidem"
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  • Posted by 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "dragged the values of their old country with them." There. that just is what is. caught you, j. caught you. I live in Mexico. The people are very conservative here. Tradition is old fashioned. think the 50s in the US.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A ditto in support. If I marry my girl friend and then adopt the kids (that has to be done first in Mexico) then apply for admission and go through both steps again ....well to copy Khalling's story it's easier and cheaper to buy them a Mexico passport get them a visa cross the border then disappear and wait for the next amnesty. The problem is who can afford to live up there any more? Or would want to? That's the part they don't understand. they watch too much TV and have a warped view of the other United States.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have to agree with that but then they are Americans. I'm more inclined to blame a do nothing government and the people who condone their failures or use it to advance their own causes - usually $$$ in their pockets.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Why are illegals on the dole? How was the figure arrived at? That implies their whereabouts are known. That means a RICO violation at one or more levels of government.

    You and I are seeing negative immigration figures now as many are streaming south. Perhaps the in the tank US economy and probable 80% employment level is going to solve the problem for us.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tie the maximum amount of welfare to the minimum wage and make it worth while to go to work.

    Minus the illegals who are artificially depressing wave levels in some areas of employment that should make jobs available. Not their fault but that's the way it is.

    Put those who 'use' them, the employers in jail.

    For those who are able and refuse to work (three job offer limit) cut their welfare. If they have children employ them chopping cotton and weeds on the county work farms THEN feed the kids.

    Make it worth while to work and not worth while not to work.

    That leaves that small percentage who truly cannot work nor be trained to work. Solves the problem of bloated welfarism.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a difference between moochers and the truly needy. the method for setting unemployment provides a start point. Subtract 10% then figure the percentage of the remaining 90% the 10% are those who will never be employed. subtract 8% of 90% = 82.8% unemployment minus those who dropped off the end. Adjust for welfare recipients they are employed as moochers. Minus the truly need but not already in the other ten per cent.next decide how to count children 0-21 and to age 23 student. If parents are on welfare subtract. define truly needy and the status of permanent or temporary subtract those who are able and refused jobs. Should be getting close to some useful figure. The other way is look at those that paid no taxes or filed no returns as a percentage and are on the dole.

    Immigrants by definition for admittance normally have to have some marketable skill or be sponsored. There are some exceptions. Illegals who work obviously and some others.

    I can't give you an answer but I wonder how much of a relationship it would bear to the 75,000 a year limit.

    Now quit calling some of those folks immigrants and call them refugees. One is oranges one is apples. Along with blanket citizenship etc. for illegals they serve one very negative purpose. Lowers the rate of immigration for legitimate emigrants from other countries.Why should they have to wait an extra five or ten or more years.

    Demand the surrender of foreign passports prior to granting citizenship. I worked with a lot of Belizians, Pinoys and a few others who carry both and constantly refer to their former country as my country. Most have no intention of remaining after retirement what they really needed was a green card.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The others who say that if America shuts off the welfare spigot are correct in saying that that will largely eliminate the problem. However, enough immigrants have dragged the values of their old country with them, and earned the right to vote, such that American individualism and exceptionalism are now regarded as racist ideas. It is as if I am Hugh Akston explaining to Dagny during the Wyoming diner scene and the snow in Atlantis scene why things that I have taken for granted are now utterly rejected.

    America has become nothing to anyone of value. It is only something now to those who feed on us.
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  • Posted by JCLanier 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    jb: Yes, the answer matters.
    America cannot be all things to all people. It must be selective to survive in this day and time. As it is, it risks becoming nothing to no one.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If by them, you mean moochers, yes, I agree. That is my absolute. If you mean any particular nationality, I disagree. Looters and moochers are like parasitic bacteria or termites. They will continue to reproduce and feed off of their hosts until the hosts are dead or they run out of food.

    The only thing better about local moochers over faraway moochers is that the faraway moochers may be far enough away that they do not affect me, even indirectly. Neither kind of moocher should get welfare.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I dont want immigrants who dont want to be assimilated into OUR culture, but just want to bring their culture here, but enjoy the goodies of our culture. THEIR cultures resulted in the very things that they are fleeing from, and I dont want those here.
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