Hahah. Got under your skin some huh?
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:17 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Very interesting quiz > Not at all, and I resent your attitude about it to tell the truth. > > You're being invited to our nation. As a birth citizen I have a > vested interest in getting good AMERICANS to come from abroad. To be > AMERICANS. > > If you want that type of government why not stay in Canada? Bullshit. It was an accident of location and timing you became an American. For me its going to be a considerable amount of time, money and effort. When you got your birth certificate, did you have to endure hours of standing in line and waiting for an interview? That you had to go through a 2 hour interview to prove that you were married to your wife? That you had to spend over $500 just for the privilege of applying for a green card, that you might not get if some bureaucrat had a bad ulcer flareup? Becoming a naturalized citizen costs almost 3 times as much, and you have to go through a lot more before you're even considered for the privilege. I know people who had to sue ICE because of some bureaucrat's incompetence in handling these people's applications. I was asked to come here. A very good University decided that they needed my participation in their graduate program. Then a research institution asked me to stay on longer to help with developing their stuttering therapy program. That program btw is still in operation, and is the most successful stuttering therapy program available. I chose to stay after that. There is a considerable difference than merely being born at the right place and time. I had a choice. I chose to stay because I think this country is worth my giving a damn about it. I will not become an American citizen because of some accident of birth, time or location, but because of my efforts and interests, time and money. I'd love to see how many citizens by birth could go through the efforts that immigrants go through to become naturalized citizens, who are still second class citizens, missing many of the rights of natural born Americans. So don't give me that holier than thou crap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244058 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
