If America was a gated country club, like Austria, we would not have any poverty whatsoever, but that beaner loving asshole in the white house refuses to enforce our immigration laws.  So, we are importing poverty!  Give us your huddled masses (even if their visa have expired or even if they didn't bother to get one).  Of course poverty in the US is expanding, BECAUSE WE ARE IMPORTING IT!!!!  My point is that the poverty in America is growing at a much slower rate than the rate at which we are importing it.  So, we are taking vast numbers of real desperate third world poverty and actually lifting most of them above the much higher standard of poverty here in America, and we are vastly improving the life of all of them.  This is an amazing feat.  It shows the true power of the America economy.  The key statistic ignored by the editorial you cited is the number of people who were lifted out of poverty by the US economy.  I would estimate that in the last ten years that number would exceed the entire population of Austria (12.5 million illegals (plus their offspring), minus 4 million more people in poverty in the US, equals more than 8.5 million third worlders lifted OUT of poverty).  The math does not lie.

So, according to you, Americans are racist pigs.  However, those racist pigs are accepting the world's poor, giving them opportunities not available in their home country, lifting the vast majority of them out of poverty and giving them all a true opportunity at prosperity -- all this at a huge cost to its own citizens.  While the more "enlightened" Austrians lollygag in their for-whites-only gated country club.  You are delusional.

You left the greatest most principled country in the history of the world to live in the pampered birthplace of Hitler. 

On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:53 PM, xxxx wrote:
But you can't escape the shit in America. Any where you step, you step in it. 
 
33 million people below poverty.  War on Terror.  Tom Ferlauto where?
 
You don't give a shit about 33 million Americans who are FAT, right? 
 
Who cares about the 6 million Jews who died AFTER they were fat?
 
America is racist and probably always will be.  Austira had it's hand slapped, and stopped, America has been free as a bird to continue its racism......as it does.... 
 
Nice argument Tom.  Doh! 
 



On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:31 PM,
xxxx wrote:
You are such a pig.  I address each numb paragraph as follows... 


Samuel Clemens once said there are three types of lies:  Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.  If I told you that in the US, the economy is growing, unemployment is at an historic low, and the real median household income is rising,  WOULD I BE LYING?  If I told you that in spite of the evil Bush tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy, that the tax revenues from those same business and wealthy individual has actually increased -- reducing the deficit ahead of schedule (wait a second, tax cuts leads to more tax paid, how can that be?), WOULD I BE LYING?  Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.  

Bottom Line:  Over 11% percent below POVERTY level in U.S.  Do you know the menu on poverty level?
 
You have spent so much time in Socialist la la land that you forgot that America is a capitalist country.  Capitalism is a good thing.  Economic Darwinism.  You are going to have winners and losers.  It sucks to loose.  If you do not want to be a loser (because it sucks to loose), try harder!!!  Sure you want to have a safety net for the unfortunate, but at what level should that net be place.  The people of East Timor get along just fine on $400 per year, but in the US you are in poverty if you earn less than $9,800.  Have you notice, though, that all the poor people in the US are FAT.  They are not missing any meals.  They gorge on federal food stamps, state, local and federal assistance and grants, social security, "disability", "unemployment" and all they have to do to get free medical care is to p! resent themselves to any ER in the country (the hospitals must provide medical services in spite of the patient's inabili! ty to pay).  The vast majority of the fatsoes in poverty in the US are in poverty because they are LAZY.  Being a loser sucks, but to them, working sucks more.  If they got off their fat asses and worked rather than relied on the entitlement system in this country, they would not be in poverty.
 
All Mexican mothers are FAT.  They eat tortillas every day of their lives.  Poverty people in america eat what?  The worst goddamn food.  However, your mega GENERALIZATION to wipe away an obvious problem is the plight of impoverished children, who have no choice about what to eat... 
 
Another major source of poverty in the US is poverty in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc.  How would the poverty levels in Austria look if 12.5 million of the poorest of the poor and uneducated from Africa illegally moved to Vienna and started breeding dark skinned Austrian citizens like rabbits. 
 
Austria's population is 8.2 million.  We have a border policy in place for decades. 
 
 
Since Clinton's days, the USA has absorbed over 10 million impoverished breading Mexicans, but the number of people in poverty only increased by 4 million (see below).  That means that the US economy took in over 6 million third-world peasants and raised their standard of living above the very liberal poverty level of the United States.
 
REALLY?  Read what you wrote again and ask me to clap my hands and shout for joy.
 
 
  I'm no fan of mass immigration of poverty, but I look at those statistics and I think: "Damn, America's version of capitalism rocks!"  And all this while at the same time recovering from the economic shock of 9/11, paying for two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and dumping $110 billion into a bottomless pot of Creole Jambalaya
 
9/11 affected most every country financially - because of america and their asinine war on terror.  You are a pig.  You refuse to see that only a 20 minute drive from your home puts you in a third world country.  America is part of a 3rd world country.  When you have - legally - 13% of the population Unemployed. 11% below poverty level. 
 
Lets see, 11% of 300 million americans is....33 million poverty americans.  And you are worried about towelheads?  You suck tom and your whole argument sucks.  You live in a country where death and mayhem mean absolutely nothing.  You live in a third world. 
 
See you at Crenshaw or maybe down in Long Beach.  Wonderful places for a family picnic...
 
Such a douchebag...