Reply #141: Yes. I Said That [View All]

[Lib Grrrrl]

And I was referring to HEALTH CARE.

there is not enough to go around that everyone can have it free. If there is a limited amount of resources, well, then, I believe...as a citizen of this country, MY NEEDS should be addressed first. After all, they came here...not the other way around.

I'd expect them to prioritize their own natives if I came to thier country.

No different.

Again, I am not going to tolerate charges of bigotry being thrown at me. The fact is, I am scared shitless about my ability to earn a decent living for myself, and I, right now, do not want any more obstacles in my way than already exist, okay?

Does that make me a bad person? does that make me evil? Does that make me a freeper?

Or does it make me human? That I do not want any more obstacles thrown in my way than already are there?

Look, I have said before, and I will say again...if the economy were healthy enough to absorb these additional workers, I'd have no problem. But it isn't. And you have to know that...once these workers obtain legal status...many of them are not going to be satisfied to keep working the crap jobs they have now.

they are going to move into jobs I might wish to take...like data entry and administrative jobs. And they will demand lower wages than I would.

Which will cause there to be either fewer opportunities for me out there...or cause me to not be able to demand a wage that I am accustomed to.

I am merely concerned for my own economic welfare here. what do I have to say to make you understand that?

It is not bigotry...it is merely me looking after my own economic welfare, first and foremost - and me not wanting others to do well AT MY EXPENSE.

If they can do well for themselves, without hurting ME...I'm all for it. But if it hurts me, then I have to be against it.

who in their right mind supports policy that will pauperize them?

Hell, even a lot of liberal (like me) are opposed to this "guest worker" idea. I suppose that you think everyone who is opposed is a bigot? that we don't have good REASON to be opposed? That our fears are entirely unjustified?