Gee, with all the immigrants plus legal (let's not mention the illegal) foreign workers in Israel, I bet we don't have to look far nor wait long for lots more uplifting stories. Oops, I just remembered: Israel doesn't have a lavish market economy to reward all those hardworking folks. And just how did all that capital get accumulated in the first place to get passed around to the deserving people anyway?
Have you considered the possibility that hardworking Haitians might build up their own country? You see America as the land of opportunity; I see it as a big exploitation-fest where only the fit need apply.
Do you have any answers for the disadvantaged, avva? Or in true free-market spirit, do you just consign them to a miserable life and early grave, while you cheer the winners?
> Have you considered the possibility that hardworking Haitians might build up their own country?
Nobody whose motivation does not include a lot of ideology gives the proverbial fig about building up their own country. Most folks want to live a comfortable life that doesn't involve worrying about food, shelter, and having nasty people with guns interrupt their sleep.
Haitians, like most folks, want to live that comfortable life, but it's a mite hard considering the political situation in their country, which is why a number of them leave.
The same is true of many Mexicans, who decide it's easier to come to the U.S. and earn money here than to try to scrabble out some kind of living in a society where mordida is the order of the day when dealing with officialdom.
I don't know if avva has any answers for the disadvantaged, but I can say this: miserable lives and early graves are not something one typically finds in countries that embrace free markets and individual freedom.
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Re: DOESN'T work for me!
Date: 2003-02-08 10:52 am (UTC)Have you considered the possibility that hardworking Haitians might build up their own country? You see America as the land of opportunity; I see it as a big exploitation-fest where only the fit need apply.
Do you have any answers for the disadvantaged,
Re: DOESN'T work for me!
Date: 2003-02-08 11:23 am (UTC)Nobody whose motivation does not include a lot of ideology gives the proverbial fig about building up their own country. Most folks want to live a comfortable life that doesn't involve worrying about food, shelter, and having nasty people with guns interrupt their sleep.
Haitians, like most folks, want to live that comfortable life, but it's a mite hard considering the political situation in their country, which is why a number of them leave.
The same is true of many Mexicans, who decide it's easier to come to the U.S. and earn money here than to try to scrabble out some kind of living in a society where mordida is the order of the day when dealing with officialdom.
I don't know if
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