Immigration for the Wealthy

[Cato]

[Minimalist]

Anything can be purchased. That's what the 1% counts on.

[Heywood]

[Jackalope]

[Minimalist]

Not "well" into but yeah. I make it.

You are in the richest 0.9% of the world's population.

Your income is more than 41.0 times the global average.

But what good does it do if the whole country is dragged into the shitter by these rich cocksuckers?

As I have previously mentioned, these tea bagging morons are fixated on the wrong revolution.

This:



is what they should be worried about.

To quote Aeschylus - Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath—it acts as a curse of publicly ratified doom.

[simplemoss]

Don't be fooled immigration laws have nothing at all to do with the economy or criminals its all about racism and classism

America was founded by and for immigrants yet were in top 5 for strictest immigration procedures.

I wonder when the kkk will finally just blow up the statue of liberty

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Heywood]

[CapnAwesome]

Here is a hint about immigration laws, they aren't fair and this country would be waaay worse off if they were. I've lived in Mexico and South America both and just about everybody there has delusions about making easy money in the United States. We cannot support the numbers of people who want to come over here. It is harsh, but it is also reality. If we opened up the proverbial flood gates, there just wouldn't be enough jobs for all the people who would come up here, not even close and those people would end up living in the streets with no jobs. We recently had high unemployment just for the people who live here already. It would be worse not just for people who are here already, but for the immigrants themselves. That's why someone from Norway, Switzerland or one of your Millionaires doesn't have a problem getting into the country. Those people don't have an incentive to stay because they can already make more money in their home country where wages are higher than they can in the United States.

Again, you can tell sob stories about how hard things are for immigrants, but opening up immigration and making it 'fair' for everyone is going to make the problem way worse, not better.

[Jackalope]

I loves me some equivocation. You two aren't even remotely talking about the same thing. I think you know this, Heywood.

We are talking about the 1% of the population that has the highest income....those which can afford to buy their way into any country they want. We are talking about rich bastards like Minimalist.

Oddly enough, by the standarda in that link, I too am in the top 1% worldwide income-wise. Yet, I seem to lack both the financial resources and the connections to buy myself out of much of anything. Somehow, that income doesn't seem to make me such a "rich bastard" in any developed country, which if I'm not too terribly mistaken, was what he was referring to: the top 1% elite in developed countries. Which, incidentally, doesn't include either he or I. That isn't what he was referring to when he spoke of the 1%.