well, i am part Jewish so i wouldn't really be putting Jews much higher than myself. but for example in Silicon Valley Japanese Americans on average make about 5% more than whites and i am FINE with that. Japanese are better with electronics than white people - i ACCEPT IT.
and i am fine with sharing my nation with them.
That is the problem. You are still looking in terms of race instead of in terms of culture. I am happy to share my nation with people who have Japanese blood, and people who have Japanese heritage, but I do not wish to share my nation with people who do not share in our American
culture. If they wish to remain Japanese, they should remain in Japan.
Which is precisely how I feel about Mexicans. Or Germans, or Poles, or Russians, or the Swiss. It's how I feel about every people on this Earth except the American and Canadian people.
paranoia is merely the state opposite of being drunk. ... paranoia is good for you if you can handle it.
This is simplistic and frankly more than a little stupid. I know what paranoia feels like because I suffer from it, and it has nothing to do with either intelligence or sobriety.
i don't get it. strict transparency laws mean ZERO trust - or just the right amount.
Not at all. Transparency laws are a sign of a government that trusts its people, and an assurance that in turn the people can trust the government.
how can you back this statement up ? our dollar currency was built on trust and look how well it is doing.
That's because you can't base a currency on something insubstantial and expect it to keep value. Trust is all well and good, but you can't mint it.
thats what the government wants you to believe. in actuality free market plus a robust constitution is all the guidance that is needed.
Times like this, you make me wonder if we're even living under the same government. Our government was built on the same kind of liberal rubbish you're spouting, and it's the belief that people are fit to govern themselves and don't require guidance that has allowed them to grow so degenerate as they have in recent decades. And it's the "free market" that allows corporate interests to buy government-- rendering the free market obsolete-- in the first place.
A country either has strict regulation or it has corruption. You live under tyranny either way, so why not choose the tyranny that better serves your interests, if you're not brainwashed by liberals into believing that "enlightened" self-interest is an adequate substitute for one's duty to society?
no it isn't. it's peoples fault that the government officials aren't being publicly hanged.
What exactly do you hope to accomplish with childish rhetoric like this? Even if you got your wish, do you think that we would suddenly have the government
you want, or would the people just elect another group of people to do the exact same thing? We keep electing the same kind of government every year because that's the kind of government the people
want.
The only thing you are accomplishing by your opposition to the government is opting out of any opportunity to use it to your advantage.
look at the countries that are beating the **** out of us industrially - Germany and Japan. Germany is 91.5% Germans while Japan is 98.5% Japanese.
So is your contention that they're doing better than we are because they're "pure", or because they are specifically German and Japanese? I would argue it's the latter-- but that their Germanity and their Japanesity have nothing to do with their bloodlines and everything to do with how they are educated and raised to belong in society.
You'll also note that both Germany and Japan reject your idealized "free market" in favor of strict governmental regulation of corporate interests.
that means JACK ****. the two most productive industrial nations today - Germany and Japan were our ENEMIES during WW2.
And our strongest allies thereafter, under the Marshall Plan.
i don't know about 65 but there isn't much in the way of civilization in sub saharan africa.
Ever been there? I suspect you haven't, and that you're speaking from conjecture. Or you're confusing your opinion that you don't like the civilization there for the fact-- however mistaken-- that there is no civilization there.
point is if you can turn piss into pure drinking water then you can turn the government into something acceptable as well.
Then your problem isn't with "government" in principle, it's with the specific form and of government that we have-- which means your declaration that government is your worst enemy is likewise much more specific. That makes your hyperbole all the more ridiculous.
If you agree that government can be turned into something acceptable, then you should be attempting to do that instead of railing blindly against it.
most Mexicans can't generate enough income to pay enough taxes to cover their own medical expenses should they be entitled to the same standards of medical care as citizens.
Neither do most Americans. Our healthcare system is broken.
if you love diversity and believe that all people are created equal - go live in sub saharan africa for a couple months and see how you like it there.
Have a care and remember who you're speaking to. I don't reject racism because I believe all people are created equal, I reject racism because the notion of race itself is primitive superstition-- there is more divergence within races than across them, and you are mistaking cultural influences for biological ones.