What's So Bad About the Word "WETBACK" ?

It would be much easier for me to accept illegal aliens if each of them carried fifty pounds worth of black market small arms ammunition across the border when they come.

 

US dollars go to Mexico.
Mexican remittance recipient exchanges, aka buys, Pesos with the Dollar
They now buy Mexican goods with Pesos.
Demand of Peso relative to Dollar goes up. Our prices here seem unchanged here, except that Mexican goods are a little more expensive now, favoring our producers, to Mexicans our prices are more affordable.
Eventually those dollars are spent on American services or goods. If nothing was done, even better. (In that case a worker would come here, produce goods, go back to Mexico, get someone to give goods to him for the work in America, and leave the Mexican producer with nothing in return).

Wealth is not a zero sum game. I can't repeat it enough b/c all of leftism is based on this faulty idea. Two people can enter a transaction, and both walk away richer. It is the norm actually.

 

Probably not likely. Often times just having the water needed to survive the hike across an AZ desert is all they can handle, despite the thousands paid to border-crossing cartels, which came from money-lenders, holding the poor soul's family hostage to the loan being repaid when they get work in the US, they cannot get back in thier village. Just a human, working harder that you and I will, ever, trying to suvive and care for their family, at great difficultly, risk and dealing with uncertainty ... in a foreign land, where another language is spoken. I haven't a fraction of their courage.

So, Al, in truth, those who look upon these amazing individuals, doing what they are, and then thinking "what's in it for my lazy ass?," sickens me. What has become of this nation of immigrants, who've become so ignorant and void of humanity?

You feel me, Al?

 

There is a no vacancy sign out and it is being ignored at other peoples expense.

 

See where I was going with that [MENTION=52503]Albert Di Salvo[/MENTION]? That's exactly the thing that sickens me about our people, whose antecedents went through much the same to get here, by and large.

 

They mooched off the tax payers too? I don't think so. The comparison is idiotic.

 

No, I'm not feeling you Archie. I don't buy into the same morality you do. From your words it seems like you believe in a fused type of morality derived from Christianity's admonition to be compassionate, and post-modern secular notions of social justice.

I abandoned Christianity long ago. I've become an atheist. And I have embraced a different morality. Although I am white my family is Chinese, literally and figuratively. After many decades I have accepted some elements of Confucian thought. Here's what I've learned:

I am not my brother's keeper. I have no duty to anyone on earth who is not kith, kin, clan or tribe. And my heart has grown hard to anyone who is not in that relationship to me.

I judge strangers by what they bring to the table. Those who bring nothing to the table because of impoverishment, ignorance and lack of skills don't belong in America because it's not in the interest of those to whom I feel a sense of obligation.

I will not have 12-20 million illegals imposed on me as a fait accompli, with me then being forced to accept their presence. I will not tolerate the imposition of their presence without strife and resistance.

My world has been changed by the presence of illegal aliens at the street level, and I am not in a good mood about it. In fact, I will never accept their presence.

Illegal aliens work so hard that they don't have time to raise their kids. As a result the kids become gangbangers. I have seen this happen for two generations of these kids.

Because the presence of illegals and their gangbanger children has been imposed on me by Uncle Sam I have stopped thinking of myself as an American.

 

You should, Al. My morality is vastly superior, to yours. Fact not opinion.

 

My ancestors lost all contact with the old country when they moved to North America.

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Perspective is relative. The world is rejecting western secularism. You are in a distinct minority morally.

 

That's because Italy sucks. Lousy cars. Food tastes like ass. Fashion that makes grunge look dressy. So Columbus Day ain't even worth taking off or opening a 12 ounce can of beer in celebration. Just sales in cheesy retial chains.

Had they been Irish, then sure, it'd be different. We can get drunk on Saint Paddy's Day and pinch all the hot babes at work, claiming we hadn't notice they were dressed head-to-toe in green attire.

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The pinnacle is lonely place, Al. Thus being superior is not without certain drawbacks. But I endure.

 

It became NOT a nation of immigrants in 1860, but the mid-19th century Geographers didn't get the point across. I guess the politicians were too busy with the civil war, reconstruction, Indian wars, stuff like that. Then they built the statue of liberty, and good population policy was dead in the water. We've never recovered from the sickness.

 

WETBACKS are people who work and take care of their families.To degrade such people is to be a fool.I'll tell you which race needs all the criticism they can get,THOSE WHO WILL NOT WORK AND HAVE NO FAMILY VALUES.

 

From Wiki...........

Irish immigration had greatly increased beginning in the 1820s due to the need for labor in canal building, lumbering, and civil construction works in the Northeast.[23] The large Erie Canal project was one such example where Irishmen were many of the laborers. Small but tight communities developed in growing cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Providence.

From 1820 to 1860, 1,956,557 Irish arrived, 75% of these after the Great Irish Famine (or The Great Hunger, Irish: An Gorta Mór) of 1845–1852, struck.[24] The Famine hurt Irish men and women alike, especially those poorest or without land.[25] It altered the family structures of Ireland because fewer people could afford to marry and raise children, causing many to adopt a single lifestyle. Consequently, many Irish citizens were less bound to family obligations and could more easily migrate to the United States in the following decade.[26]

Of the total Irish immigrants to the U.S. from 1820 to 1860, many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships.[23]

Gravestone in Boston Catholic cemetery erected in memory of County Roscommon native born shortly before The Great Famine.

Most Irish immigrants to the United States favored large cities because they could create their own communities for support and protection in a new environment.[27] Another reason for this trend was that Irish immigrants could not afford to move inland and had to settle close to the ports at which they arrived.[28] Cities with large numbers of Irish immigrants included Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, as well as Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In 1910, there were more people in New York City of Irish heritage than Dublin's whole population, and even today, many of these cities still retain a substantial Irish American community.[29] Mill towns such as Lawrence, Lowell, and Pawtucket attracted many Irish women in particular. The best urban economic opportunities for unskilled Irish women and men included “factory and millwork, domestic service, and the physical labor of public work projects.”[30]

 

OFF TOPIC!! The thread is not about "race", as you stated. It is about PEOPLE (of any race) illegally entering the USA. Please get on topic.

 

Straw Poll: Anyone think the word "wetback" is okay to use casually?

(Yes/No)

 

Nice history lesson. Maybe you could find a thread somewhere in the forum where it would fit in, and actually be ON TOPIC, you think ?

Yes!!!!!!!!