On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:44:17AM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > Some of the best people I ever worked with were out of country. I have no > problem with someone moving here to make a better life, whether > permanently or for a period, sending money back home. This is true whether > the person is a C++ guru or a bus boy or an okra picker. I applaud people > who have the guts to do that within or outside the law (because these laws > are artificial barriers that care not whether someone's baby is hungry).
Amen. > If it were up to me, there would be no borders ... not like there are now. > Don't call that crazy idealism, there are no borders between Ohio and > Indiana and never have been, and there are no borders between France and > Spain, which used to be. Ohio and Indiana, or France and Spain, doesn't compare... Mexico is a thoroughly corrupt country where tens of millions of people are in abject poverty with no education, health care, or real hope. They would all love to come to "the land of opportunity", but we cannot handle them all. They all show up wanting education for their kids, medical care, food, etc. and we don't have huge surpluses of any of that to be handing out. > So what I'm pissing about is the sheer hypocracy (and racism) of hounding > the okra picker as a criminal (while canning or cooking the okra), and > importing nurses and computer programmers because corporate moguls (and > campaign contributers) whine that there is a deficiency in domestic talent > (read "they want to be paid too much"). Again, a big difference between 100,000 skilled, educated computer programmers vs. 10,000,000 unskilled, uneducated okra pickers who are all going to be standing in line at the emergency room for health care on everyone else's dime and sending their kids to our schools for free. > It's another example of where "free markets" are anything but, and > Americans are demigoged into voting against their own best interests > (which may well be to get that talent in the country). Ahh yes, the Republicrats and the Demoblicans! "I think your four cent titanium tax goes too far!" "And I think your four cent titanium tax doesn't go far enough!" -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
