#72525 by ColorsFade
Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:41 pm
Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:41 pm
J-HALEY wrote:The reason I haven't answered your question is because it is irrelevent.
It's not irrelevant. It was just a question. A lot of REAL police officers have been killed in the last year by US citizens. I wanted to know what you thought of those killings, and what your level of outrage was. It seems to me that you don't really care that a cop was killed; you care that an illegal alien did it.
I think you are right to be angry. I just think you're angry for the wrong reason.
J-HALEY wrote:As far as legal citizens go I would much rather help them when they are down and out. But I would prefer the old adage give a man a fish and he eats for a day teach him to fish and he eats for life.
I don't think you've understood what I've been getting at. I'm not for handouts. I'm not for pardoning the illegal immigrant because they're down and out.
What I've been trying to do is get you to think, and to realize that maybe not everything is black and white, and simple as you want to believe it is. That maybe there's a reason for a person's behavior that you haven't thought about.
Do you believe all illegal immigrants are scum?
J-HALEY wrote:I think it is utterly rediculas the way you compare the non citizens who sneak into this country that want nothing to do with us except to exploit our economy to the legal deserving citizens SHAME ON YOU DUDE!
You have direct experience with illegal aliens, so your view of them is colored by that experience. I have experience with US citizens who have the same goals: to exploit our economy and health care system.
Maybe you think all illegals are evil and all US citizens are perfect? I'm being facetious.
What about welfare rats who pop out a new kid every 12 months and live off the generosity of the US government and health care system? Do you know why your premiums are so high? Because welfare mom down the street with five kids doesn't make appointments at the doctors office when she or her kids get sick like you do; she goes straight to the emergency room, without health insurance, and YOU pay for that through higher premiums.
But it would be a bad, sweeping generalization if I said everyone one welfare is the problem. Some people have no other choice, and actually do want to work and aren't trying to exploit the system.
Generalization are bad. And wrong. And I make the same mistakes as everyone else. There's a group of people I rail against too; so I guess I'm no different than you.
But it sure is disappointing that we have to be this way.