Reply #42: 'scuse me for condescending, but your post suggested ... [View All]

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...that you did not understand why nations are nations.

"the only reason so manycome to this country illegally is because we are selective who we accept"

We are more restrictive than Canada, but less restrictive than most other industrial countries. At any rate, the fact that people break the law is not a reason to change it. That is the rationale Hannity uses to say Bush show be allowed to spy on people in violation of FISA.

I agree that illegal aliens provide many valuable services. The fact that we need them to do it is a problem, not an indicator of success. As I said, our system feeds on itself. Because we are greedy and wasteful and because windfall profits stay at the top, we need cheap labor and cheap resources. That cheap labor requires yet more resources and services to support it. It is not sustainable. This is why OPEC runs our country, China owns our treasury and perfectly good farm land and forests are disappearing for suburban sprawl. We must end this by capping our population growth (of which immigration is the sole cause), causing the rich to spread the windfall and capping the consumption of nonrenewable resources like open space and energy use.