While anyone who decries illegal immigration is required to distinguish it from legal immigration, the effects of legal immigration should first be noted. Robert Samuelson recently wrote in his Washington Post column that "Hispanics account for most of the increase in poverty" since 1990. "Compared with 1990, there were actually 700,000 fewer non-Hispanic whites in poverty last year . . . . Meanwhile, the number of poor Hispanics is up by 3 million since 1990. The health insurance story is similar. Last year 13 million Hispanics lacked insurance. They're 60 percent of the rise since 1990." And of course a growing proportion of the Hispanic population is immigrants poorer than their predecessors. Samuelson remarks that the black poverty rate in this period has actually dropped, from 32 to 24 percent.
2006-09-10 06:52:24 · 9 answers · asked by NoBama For Me 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Well, Mexico's national slogan could be 'It sucks to be us', and although you can't help feeling a LITTLE sorry for em, it's kind of when Larry, the town drunk, wakes up in a puddle of his own waste in the gutter in front of city hall, for the 3rd time this week.
They have the money, they have the means, they have the 'many hands', but they lack the unity of purpose and direction to really make something out of their country besides another tourist trap/3rd world wasteland. The only cure for Larry is a garden hose, and a night in the drunk tank. The only cure for Mexico is that people gotta start volunteering and build the things they need.
If they can build hotel resorts, they can build schools, and hospitals, and houses, and roads, and the other things their society needs to truly prosper. We can help, maybe, after they show some good-faith effort or something, just can't/shouldn't do it for em. Change begins at home...
2006-09-10 07:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by gokart121 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully, people can see the facts and will get off their lazy asses for long enough to put down the cell phone and mcdonalds fries to fight for their country instead of just being too lazy and selfish to deal with it. these are what we need, cold hard facts.
2006-09-10 06:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by all_ixi_american_ixi_carl 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate illegals
2006-09-10 07:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
He's telling us something that we already know and have been trying to change.
2006-09-10 07:04:06 · answer #4 · answered by Our Turn 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
LOL I love your picture.
2006-09-10 06:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by The Show Must Go On 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
knowledge
2006-09-10 06:55:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE YOUR AVATAR
2006-09-10 09:23:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
and we all no
2006-09-10 06:58:04 · answer #8 · answered by BIG WILLIE THE GEORGIA TITIAN 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ahh.
2006-09-10 06:59:33 · answer #9 · answered by Friendly Neighbor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋