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In reply to the discussion: Free traders will never answer this... if immigrants are needed here... [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)59. Like I said before, fine, bring 'em in, it's not like we have any jobs.
What'll they do when they get here?
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Free traders will never answer this... if immigrants are needed here... [View all]
Zalatix
Oct 2012
OP
You're one to talk about a one-track mind. Take off your rose-colored glasses for a second.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#17
You started the emotional, personal attack crap with your "one-track mind" comment.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#26
"Arguing over who started it"? In short, you can dish out the attacks but you can't take it.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#36
my neighbors across the street have a homeless encampment behind their back fence. the
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#113
We will never sell China more than they sell us. Please stop entertaining that fantasy.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#27
Bingo. I can't believe they still trot out that same canard about exporting our way out of this
Populist_Prole
Oct 2012
#41
That is a popular fiction. America developed because we stole some of the best real estate on earth.
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2012
#107
your OP isn't about 10 million jobless its about a zenophobic and hate filled rant against
grantcart
Oct 2012
#14
My post is NOT xenophobic. Your dishonest post shows a total CONTEMPT for American workers.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#18
I stand on the shoulders of giants. LOTS of DUers have helped me get informed on this issue.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#74
Canada requires you to have a job to move there. They don't need a job to move here.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#30
How does that compare to being poor and moving to Canada? Or Mexico? Or China? Or... Poland?
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#37
Less than 2 million. There are more Canadian citizens working in the U.S. than U.S. citizens
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2012
#108
What is, according to State, the number? I got mine from tax records (IRS). n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2012
#121
Speaking as a foreigner who lives in the U.S. and hires people from all over the world for jobs
WilmywoodNCparalegal
Oct 2012
#29
I just want parity between us looking for jobs "over there" and them looking for jobs here.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#45
No comments about immigrants unionizing? No comments about immigrant factory workers?
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#88
Yup, goodbye. You've been busted spouting falsehoods and trying to misdirect the discussion.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#90
"If I were an unemployed American, I'd move across the border to get a job if I could."
NCTraveler
Oct 2012
#131
Nothing that will top your yearning to send Americans to Mexico for employment.
NCTraveler
Oct 2012
#137
Show me the labor statistics for Mexico. And the violence rate while you are at it.
NCTraveler
Oct 2012
#153
There are few things easier in the world than being an American working abroad,
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2012
#64
So you acknowledge you have never sought or been denied foreign employment
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2012
#69
What is lame is your persisant appeals to authority on a multitude of subjects
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2012
#71
You are not one to accuse anyone of being ignorant, considering you're CONSTANTLY in error.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#72
This is ofcourse qualified with the expectation you're legally sponsored by an employer...
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2012
#96
Canada has a "points based" visa system, and admits virtually ZERO unskilled immigrants.
Romulox
Oct 2012
#140
Why should people -- americans, indians, or anyone else -- be forced to move halfway around
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#46
it's happened all through history. it's what capitalism does -- destroy communities, families and
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#78
I will leave it to others to decide what is fair and unfair. I would just like to be honest ...
twins.fan
Oct 2012
#51
+1. they're liars and they should be called on it on a daily basis. history shows very clearly how
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#146
There are millions of Americans working abroad. And, I don't mean just the US Army.
leveymg
Oct 2012
#53
A surplus of $100 billion and yet tons of American STEM workers are jobless, and wages not rising?
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#54
3 to 6 million *living* abroad, not *working*. < than 2% of the us population and some are
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#115
if half are working, it's .4 to .96% of the total US population. whereas about 8% of the us
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#132
Look at it this way: what percentage of the current accounts balance is $170 billion? That's the
leveymg
Oct 2012
#138
55% of our global trade in services exports comes from 1) travel, passenger fares &
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#145
If you think 10 million US jobs is "a pittance", then you may just have a point.
leveymg
Oct 2012
#147
show me the evidence of global trade in service creating 10 million jobs in the us for americans.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#148
not if they're retirees or students. the country with the largest number of expats = mexico.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#116
I'm not moving any goalposts. I was talking about immigrants, period, legal or not.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#106
Learn to read. I was not talking about Governments determining what countries people emigrate to.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#110
"They aren't American jobs if it's a multinational corporation." You can go tell that fairy tale to
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#122
It's funny how your "solution" to poverty in other countries makes the rich in the US richer.
Romulox
Oct 2012
#151
The neo-liberalism has given us 30 plus years of stagnant wages, decreasing lifespans for children,
Romulox
Oct 2012
#142
Um Spidey? The complaint isn't about the size of the GDP. It's about INEQUALITY. Wrap your
Romulox
Oct 2012
#150