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Old 05-29-2007, 02:45 PM
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This will brighten you day.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265

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Old 05-29-2007, 03:02 PM
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i have to wait til i get home....access DENIED here...
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:25 PM
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Didn't have time to watch it, but something tells me it's not gonna brighten my day.
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:48 PM
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Staggering. But in retrospect, I would say 95% of today's population are immigrants or descendents of. Not really sure what the actual Native American population % is.
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Old 05-29-2007, 04:05 PM
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Sort of did a F/F thru this, but it is sobering. I wonder what growth rates he is using and since it has been cut and edited, we don't see the whole presentation.
California needing to build a school a day to perpetuity! What were those assumptions?
Maybe some Malthusian solutions might help...war, pestilence, disease, famine?

But we will do nothing to curb it.
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Old 05-29-2007, 04:10 PM
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We should be doing the opposite. We should be building huge electric fences around our borders, like on Jurassic Park.
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Old 05-29-2007, 04:37 PM
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Story today on MSNBC claimed that the cost for hospital care alone for illegals
was around 6 billion dollars a year. The story also pointed out that by law hospitals are required to treat anybody that walks into the emergency ward, hospitals are closing down because they can't deal with the cost associated with treating illegals. Over 80 hospitals have essentially been run out of business by illegals. Thats over 80, mostly rural, communities that no longer have hospitals in them. Tell me again that illegal immigration is a victim less crime.
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Old 05-29-2007, 07:40 PM
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Here's the summary:
1925-1965 Averaged 178,000 Immigrants per year
1965-1989 Averaged 507,000 Immigrants per year
1990-1999 Averaged 1,000,000 Immigrants per year
Current average is over 1,000,000 per year
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Old 05-29-2007, 08:43 PM
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I didn't watch the video, nor do i intend on it, but our entire system for controlling illegal immigration is corrupt. We impose all these penalties to the actual immigrants, yet do next to nothing to punish those that employ them. Duh, no work, they will go back home....We amerikans R dum.....
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Old 05-29-2007, 08:50 PM
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yep they are gonna overwhelm the system,they have already drained the county welfare system here and it isn't even june yet!!
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Old 05-29-2007, 08:51 PM
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See he misses a couple of important points.

Now we compete for jobs with people that are all over the world. Anything that can be done on a computer can be done anywhere in the world.

Secondly employment is still very low, we have the only economy in the world that needs to import a massive number of workers per year. People only come here to get jobs, if the jobs went away they wouldn't come. The flow over the southern border would stop tomarrow if the jobs dried up. But we don't just import low skilled work, we skim the best from Asia, the middle east and Europe for skilled jobs.

Thirdly we have always hated immigrants, the Indian's greated the first wave with arrows. Later generations talked about the dirty Italians, the damn Irish, etc, etc.

So while he does have some points, he only presents one viewpoint.
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Old 05-29-2007, 10:26 PM
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Make a trade: Our welfare recipients for your "skilled" workers.
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Old 05-29-2007, 10:51 PM
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Make a trade: Our welfare recipients for your "skilled" workers.
That makes no sense. Some of the brightest people wait in long lines at the US embassy in China and India to come here.
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Old 05-29-2007, 11:31 PM
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Exactly. It seems these other countries are missing out on the pathetic, useless class. They've got so many educated and skilled, they're leaving the country. Meanwhile, we can't get our lazy and worthless to go. Everyone wins...
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Old 05-29-2007, 11:41 PM
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Its because a mechanical engineer in India can make $2k a year, while in the US $100k per year.

Also we have the best colleges in the world.

You need people who will mow your lawn, wash your car, and clean your house for $10 an hour. Since we make $100k a year we can afford to pay them in this country and create such a class. If you are making $2k a year working the same job in India you can't own a car, or a house with a lawn, let alone pay someone to take care of them.

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