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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Faith writes: You did indeed imply that the illegals are immigrants that the country needs. Perhaps it isn't what you meant but that is what you said. You have this amazing ability to start arguments in zero time. No Faith, I did not imply that or mean that or say that. The larger context is that if immigration were not made so difficult then illegal immigration wouldn't be such a problem.
I'd leave it to Trump's advisors to plan the Rio Grande portion of the wall, or whatever other form of dealing with the illegals they come up with for that area. This debunkery is premature. The wall is big time in the news right now. Commenting now is completely apropos, especially the financing which we haven't discussed much yet. Apparently we're going to pay for the wall ourselves and then bill Mexico. Good luck with that. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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While the Trump Wall is a truly stupid idea when considered for controlling immigration it certainly is a brilliant idea when considered as yet another way to get all the utterly ignorant US citizens to move money from their pockets into the pockets of a select few rich folk. Fortunately the US citizenry is so willfully ignorant that many will applaud getting raped yet again.
But it is still just a small raping. Tens of millions of dollars will get passed out to the US construction industry that will likely then subcontract the work out to the local workers who will in turn send those wages south to their relatives in Mexico and Central America. This should be one of our more successful foreign aid projects.
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Modulous Member Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
. And even when the river is on a border there are often boat ramps that also have direct access to the interior of the US over things called roads. I also heard about some bright young men who have recently developed a 'flying machine'. Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
So did Berlin. Of course they needed snipers too.
China made good use of the concept.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Faith writes:
China made good use of the concept. Indeed. They don't seem to have an illegal Mexican immigrant problem at all, do they.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 376 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
...especially the financing which we haven't discussed much yet. Apparently we're going to pay for the wall ourselves and then bill Mexico. Good luck with that. quote: Source Trump is starting to remind me of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Is America so great that it has to steal from the poor to pay for the castle?
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
How many poor people are there in this world who might benefit from living in America where they'd get sophisticated care of many kinds? A few billion? How's about we pay to transport that many here then? There won't be room or services for us citizens of course, or any money left, but we should be content that we've benefitted so many others. It's all the same principle. And we can move to Mexico or Africa or India or Tibet.
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Faith writes: How many poor people are there in this world who might benefit from living in America where they'd get sophisticated care of many kinds? Actually, care is better in almost every truly developed nation with the single exception of the United States. We are the outlier in that area. But yes, Jesus did charge us the feed the hungry, heal the sick, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked, protect the weak. What Jesus did not command us to do is make money feeding the hungry, make money healing the sick, make money clothing the naked, make money sheltering the homeless, make money protecting the weak. The other factor is that immigrants come here not for welfare but rather to work; a fact that seems to have been missed by the Trumpettes.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Jesus did not talk to nations, only individuals. He did have common sense, which it is painfully obvious Leftists do not.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Faith writes: How many poor people are there in this world who might benefit from living in America where they'd get sophisticated care of many kinds? The actual high level goals are twofold:
The same impulse that caused Americans to pack up their belongings and head west is the same for immigrants: they want to better their situation. Their success will be our success because instead of living in an impoverished underground economy they'll be full participants in our mainstream economy as both contributors and consumers. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Maybe you never came across this document.
quote: It is "We the people" that establish government and determine what it should do.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
It is "We the people" that establish government and determine what it should do. I believe that the Religious Right defines that as secular humanism. At least that's what they defined "secular humanism" to be since the 1980's.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Jesus did not talk to nations, only individuals. Is this consistent with your stance on capital punishment?
He did have common sense, which it is painfully obvious Leftists do not. Oooh. Good one. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Jesus did not talk to nations, only individuals.
Is this consistent with your stance on capital punishment? Certainly. Nations must be ruled by Law. Jesus came to fulfill the Law on behalf of those who believe in Him. He teaches forgiveness of sinners, He addresses individuals for salvation. Nations have to be governed by Law, to keep the peace by restraining crime, and Law is found in the Old Testament.
He did have common sense, which it is painfully obvious Leftists do not. Oooh. Good one. Thank you. I thought it was quite apt. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Aren't you discriminating against the poor Africans and Mongols and Indians who would also seek a better life if they happened to live next to the American border? Isn't discrimination against a class of people against the American dream?
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