Hi
littleYES! if someone is seeking refuge here, they should be more than welcome to. the only reason more people DON'T is because it is so hard to get here from asia, africa, south america, etc. we have no right to say one persons life is more valuable than the other and we shouldn't have to make a choice. we should help everyone we can, everyone who WANTS help.
So the U.S. is a charitable organization now?
if the day comes when the religious right takes over, and start burning gays at the stake, i would absolutely flee to anywhere i could. sometimes it's just not as simple as standing up to your government. i do my best to stay here and change things for the better in the ways i can, but things keep getting worse. there's going to come a point where i say fuck this, i'm sick of being treated like a second class citizen, and move to a country that accepts gays as equals. will i go through the legal process? yes, but i have the resources to do so. for now. but who knows what's going to happen.
You know, this can turn on its head. In this country gay rights are being pushed forward by the left, generally. In the southwest of America, the HIspanic population is growing by leaps and bounds. I think it was said recently that the Hispanic population is now the majority in some areas. I'm sure that is also due some to immigration.
Many of them are Catholic and are quite used to religion mixing with politics. And if naturalized will become voters. Not sure which way they would vote on such legislative moral and gender issues, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
How are those countries going to improve if their citizens don't have to stay and face up to their unsatisfactory governments?
If this isn't idealism then I don't know what is.
Good lord, they can't even stand up to make 30 bucks a week -- the governments are loaded with corruption and they are poverty stricken.
Is that comment for real?
Er, yeah. After all Mexico has had quite a few revolutions in the last two centuries. Was it just the wealthy fighting? I don't think so.
We had a revolution in this country and in France as well. They had an almost bloodless apartheid system change in South Africa.
Were only the well-heeled and employed doing the revolting?
Del, no, I'm not rich. But I do see sweeping social issues as greater than black and white.
My own dishes? I'm talking about in restaurants.
My own laundry? I'm talking about dry cleaners.
I don't know where you come from, but the economy in this major city would collapse tomorrow, and everyone here knows it, if we removed the contributions of undocumented workers.
Did it collapse when the immigrants walked out on Monday? Or did life go on? I think life went on. Yes, they make a contribution, no one is denying that. It's just a matter of how much of an impact it makes. I've yet to read any articles on the economic impact of Monday.
Can you take a compassionate perspective on those characters at all?
Never saw either of them, sorry. Yes, I have compassion. I have compassion for people who have terrible lives, I think there is a word in German for 'world sorrow'. I have that quite often.
But even Jesus Christ said 'There will be poor always.' You can't save everyone and indeed, there is nothing that says it is even possible.