The Swiss are rational

Posted by $ blarman 5 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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If we're going to import anyone to the US, why can't we get some of these people?
SOURCE URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-agriculture-referendum/swiss-voters-reject-more-aid-for-farmers-idUSKCN1M30GS


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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 6 months ago
    Switzerland is a model of what our Founders hoped the U.S. would be. Political power is in the cantons, not the central government. They are true Antifederalists. Second amendment lovers would be right at home in Switzerland, where high schools have shooting teams that compete in matches, and the shooting ranges go out of the way to be family-friendly.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 6 months ago
    These days...who but the perverse, the unskilled, the politically corrupt would Want to come here.

    Seems to me, the Swiss would be happy right where they are. But if any of them did want to, your are correct, We should welcome them with celebrations and parades!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 6 months ago
    If me dino was a Swiss citizen, me would be too afraid to come here. Too many crazies with political winds that shift back and forth. Another Obamanation may be right around the corner.
    I'd see Antifa in action of TV. Also on TV (not to mention my PC monitor), I'd see screeching out oif order lunatics at supreme court justice nominee hearings, people assaulting politicians and chasing them out of restaurants, Cackles The Evil Hag saying "My dream is open borders," an enormous infestation of illegals, sanctuary cities where illegals kill citizens, drug traffic, an opioid epidemic, the country where criminal gangs converge to push their product, NFL athletes who hate cops and do not call them but must otherwise take care of business with drive-by shootings (remember that a faraway Swiss dino can only wonder), Muslim terrorists fly hijacked passenger jets into American buildings--not Swiss ones and I know I can keep coming up with many more examples why a Swiss dino would rather stay right where she or he is. And what Swiss citizen would want to expose precious children to such a crazy place?
    No one wants to read a very long book here and me dino is working up an appetite to go buy a Friday catfish dinner at a deli an hour from now.. Long books also take too long to write.
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  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 6 months ago
    "If we're going to import anyone to the US, why can't we get some of these people? "

    First off, the Swiss would never want to live in another country as an immigrant.

    Second, I am not sure we'd want them even if they did. The Swiss are notoriously liberal in many issues such as allowing Muslims to build mosques which are littering the countryside in ever increasing numbers.
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  • Posted by Lucky 5 years, 6 months ago
    "Supporters such as the Green Party and Social Democrats argued that consumers, animals, the environment and farmers would all benefit."

    The usual open-ended green-enviro agenda with more regulations, more restrictions, and more subsidies. Higher taxes and debt are inevitable. The only benefits will be in jobs for central planners, regulators and inspectors, those who do not know telling those who know what to do.

    There is a big weird green element in Switzerland but it looks like most voters can see thru the nonsense.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 6 months ago
      Much of that is because their size allows for local votes on all binding resolutions. Switzerland doesn't have a strong central government which controls the municipalities - much like what I think the Founders would have preferred for our nation. That being said, I think the US' size would preclude such balloting here in the US...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 6 months ago
    "If we're going to import anyone to the US, why can't we get some of these people?"

    Because they are happy where they are and would rather work than get welfare, unlike most of the 60 million illegal aliens that the statist politicians and bureaucrats in DC have not deported as required by law.
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  • Posted by GaryL 5 years, 6 months ago
    I wish I knew more about how immigration to Switz. is controlled and especially for the Moslems. We do hear some very disturbing news from there regarding the rape numbers skyrocketing but in this current atmosphere I never know what is true and accurate and what is pure BS. I have no desire to ever visit any country outside the USA but Switz. is one country I would in fact feel rather safe in.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 6 months ago
      I think you are getting Sweden - which has a legitimate issue with immigration policy and rape by Muslims - with Switzerland - the subject of this article. Switzerland has a very tightly controlled immigration policy as they are not part of the EU. Sweden (being part of the EU) is not so lucky - as their residents have quickly discovered.
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      • Posted by GaryL 5 years, 6 months ago
        I was thinking along this quote from Exceller, "The Swiss are notoriously liberal in many issues such as allowing Muslims to build mosques which are littering the countryside in ever increasing numbers." I am not sure this is at all accurate but then we rarely ever hear much about what goes on in Switzerland. Sweeden on the other hand certainly is feeling the pain.
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