Originally Posted by Out back

Damn. It doesn't show.



Immigration is a key component to our economy. Restrictive immigration is the same thing as a tariff (a tax on the American people). You don't become the greatest country in the world without immigration.


The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"


It's like some of us have never read a history book. We literally have this poem on the front door of the country.


"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing... compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."

Joan Robinson