Yeah. From Haiti and Iran. Not Japan, France, England. (Reply #8)

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Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:36 AM

tblue (16,350 posts)

8. Yeah. From Haiti and Iran. Not Japan, France, England.

I don't see mass immigration from Europe or South America. Not anymore. Or Canada. Of course demand is high in places we have helped put in desperate straits. That's how it works.

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135 replies	Author	Time	Post
Can anyone get it? Most of the World hates the USA!! [View all]	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	OP
I agree	newfie11	Mar 2013	#1
Psssst,	elleng	Mar 2013	#2
LOL - yeah - I'm old enuf to not give a shit	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#4
I do give a shit, just felt like joking.	elleng	Mar 2013	#5
I'm not in a joking mood - tired of seeing the USA slaughter people	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#9
Do you have an extra room or a house for rent?	ReRe	Mar 2013	#20
You could be a nice contributor on Fox News with all that bullshit!	Carnage251	Mar 2013	#30
The problem is, he's right, though.	Arugula Latte	Mar 2013	#128
I believe any country with the US's type of domination would do exactly the same	treestar	Mar 2013	#45
"we were able to learn of our power"	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#53
It's a mixed bag on that though	treestar	Mar 2013	#113
"what if Germany was the superpower?" - hmm	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#124
I think the Russians and the Chinese would be far worse	treestar	Mar 2013	#127
right or wrong, I think we are in for a big change.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#132
But they are Western companies	treestar	Mar 2013	#133
And yet demand for entry remains high.	bluedigger	Mar 2013	#3
The grass is always greener . . .	elleng	Mar 2013	#6
?	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#13
Yeah. From Haiti and Iran. Not Japan, France, England.	tblue	Mar 2013	#8
Great examples.	bluedigger	Mar 2013	#10
Otay.	tblue	Mar 2013	#15
"Believe whatever you want, if shaming us makes you feel morally superior."	Number23	Mar 2013	#118
Mexico is the top nation on the waiting list at this point...	MADem	Mar 2013	#14
I was gonna say Mexico	tblue	Mar 2013	#18
Most of my friends were not born here, but are citizens, so I'm probably	MADem	Mar 2013	#21
Where is it from then?	treestar	Mar 2013	#47
You don't see much emigration from highly developed countries these days at all.	Posteritatis	Mar 2013	#75
you got stats on that??	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#12
The waiting lists vary greatly by visa type	Recursion	Mar 2013	#37
Yes, I do.	bluedigger	Mar 2013	#62
Yeah the millions of Norwegians beating down the door to get in here is downright frightening.	Egalitarian Thug	Mar 2013	#24
Cause people want to leave countries we might bomb, safer for them here	The Straight Story	Mar 2013	#34
THAT, is a sad situation IMO - -	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#39
+1	treestar	Mar 2013	#43
You haven't traveled much, have you?	bvar22	Mar 2013	#134
Not all that much	treestar	Mar 2013	#135
Demand for entry is high from Third World countries, not so much from First World countries	Lydia Leftcoast	Mar 2013	#54
My husband	JustAnotherGen	Mar 2013	#76
"But we're the good guys."	tblue	Mar 2013	#7
LOL - ya right - ask the World	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#11
I've always HATED "we're the good guys".	HughBeaumont	Mar 2013	#36
WWII	treestar	Mar 2013	#48
"No-one is gonna invade the USA"	Cali_Democrat	Mar 2013	#16
'Fighting for our freedom'	tblue	Mar 2013	#19
That pisses me off, too!	Arugula Latte	Mar 2013	#129
name some famous leaders who think they can murder anyone just because they want to...and do nt	msongs	Mar 2013	#17
Well, let's see....	ReRe	Mar 2013	#22
Bush comes to mind . .	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#40
Hubris is the typical downfall of the mighty. And it's the nuts on the right who shout about how the	gtar100	Mar 2013	#23
Most of the World hates the USA!!	Flashmann	Mar 2013	#25
Not impossible, merely false. nt	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#42
Simplistic analysis. nt	el_bryanto	Mar 2013	#26
?	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#44
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. I thought the OPs analysis was overly simplistic	el_bryanto	Mar 2013	#46
I didn't say "everyone" hates the USA - I said "most" . . .	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#57
I know you guys have Poutaine	el_bryanto	Mar 2013	#60
Err, I think you erred, there.	MineralMan	Mar 2013	#126
It's Poutine! - that's how us dumb Canucks spell it	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#130
Only if you ignore the actual data	Recursion	Mar 2013	#27
There you go ruining a perfectly good rant with facts and data!	stevenleser	Mar 2013	#32
Did you actually READ the poll?	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#50
Yes, and they have several questions linked from that page	Recursion	Mar 2013	#51
Did that	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#52
Errr.. they approve of us 63-37	Recursion	Mar 2013	#55
YOU jumped into my thread	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#65
Yes they did, because this is a discussion forum, not a personal blog. They responded on topic.	stevenleser	Mar 2013	#68
LMAO. Canadians are afraid the US is going	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#69
yes we are . we see what they do across the globe	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#77
I have met hundreds if not thousands of Canadians	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#79
Malarkey....	Clames	Mar 2013	#82
Clames - I got more than Malarkey - Been on DU 10 years	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#85
It's a pdf document about Canadian travel trends.	Clames	Mar 2013	#86
You got schooled in your own thread.	Union Scribe	Mar 2013	#88
"schooled" - does that mean I learned something??	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#90
That was from 2005 and it was 59% favorable amongst Canadians.	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#56
Wow. As an American living in Australia (and this is the fourth country I've lived in)	Number23	Mar 2013	#116
Like the B-2 flyover of South Korea	Puzzledtraveller	Mar 2013	#28
You must actually be puzzled because they didn't flyover North Korea	Carnage251	Mar 2013	#29
a mistake	Puzzledtraveller	Mar 2013	#31
NK did the chest pounding antic nt	treestar	Mar 2013	#49
A 2009 review of "The Ugly American" written in 1958....	OldDem2012	Mar 2013	#33
.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#58
Please remember	Shankapotomus	Mar 2013	#35
I know that most USA citizens do not support this constant war	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#98
An earlier book, "The Quiet American", written in 1955....	OldDem2012	Mar 2013	#38
No, the entire planet does not hate the US.	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#41
I'm 62 years old, live beside the superepower	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#59
You speak for yourself, not most Canadians or most human beings	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#61
Geek - you are indeed a tragedy!	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#95
Being a 62 year old Canadian makes you an expert	RZM	Mar 2013	#70
"Who cares who you are and where you are from?"	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#74
yes, but can you see Russia from your porch, sweetie?	cali	Mar 2013	#91
"I've never believed that age automatically confers wisdom"	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#92
How about agreeing with the Canadian and being a 62 yr old US Citizen and a vet.....	OldDem2012	Mar 2013	#99
I'm hardly one of the biggest critics of the U.S. on this board	cali	Mar 2013	#101
Bull...on all counts. nt.	OldDem2012	Mar 2013	#103
Post removed	Post removed	Mar 2013	#63
"canucky, dearie, why don't you go worry about Harper"	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#96
Jury	bahrbearian	Mar 2013	#104
WOW! I was the one getting slammed, but it offended someone ELSE enuf to do an alert!	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#106
No they don't	bhikkhu	Mar 2013	#64
The Planetary Rise in Conciousness...	CanSocDem	Mar 2013	#67
Having grown up well into adulthood in Mexico I agree with you	lunatica	Mar 2013	#66
But not enough to refuse the gifts in the form of US foreign aid.	bike man	Mar 2013	#71
Those "gifts" usually involve permission to have military bases	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#78
Which also involves lease payments, local citizens on payroll, money spent by	bike man	Mar 2013	#81
"ponder complete" - really??	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#83
No, I do not think it is ok. Those 700+ military sites in more than 30 countries	bike man	Mar 2013	#94
As a member of the other 95% of the planet, we aren't a monolith. (nt)	Posteritatis	Mar 2013	#72
We should strive to be more like Canada, who was wise enough to stay out of Iraq,	hughee99	Mar 2013	#73
I wish you were correct, Chretien kept us out of Iraq, but	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#89
Two words:	geek tragedy	Mar 2013	#80
LOL - even us Canuks know how to count - that's 5 words.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#87
I was ready to do some traveling	sfpcjock	Mar 2013	#84
Why? - and where you planning on travelling to?	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#93
Europe, prolly.	sfpcjock	Mar 2013	#100
What do I like to do? Explore remote camping spots in Northern Ontario.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#107
We've made plenty of mistakes...	Comrade_McKenzie	Mar 2013	#97
This message was self-deleted by its author	darkangel218	Mar 2013	#102
Does 810 Vermont Ave ring any bells here?	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#105
Many of the people in our nation get it. However, I suspect that does not include the bigwigs in the	jwirr	Mar 2013	#108
OH, I think they know - they just do not care!	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#109
Money and power are definitely the motives. But most of us do not have any of that money or that	jwirr	Mar 2013	#110
"most of this was done with the concent of the governed." - Not really methinks.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#112
No I don't think you are wrong. But if you think back to 911 most of us were very willing to be	jwirr	Mar 2013	#114
Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?	undeterred	Mar 2013	#111
that simply is not true. And nobody criticizes U.S. foreign policy more than me	Douglas Carpenter	Mar 2013	#115
The President of Ireland is my new hero. That was awesome! n/t	Violet_Crumble	Mar 2013	#120
From someone who's part of most of the rest of the world: We don't hate the US...	Violet_Crumble	Mar 2013	#117
Hasn't Canada been a "willing" member of the coalitions of the willing?	Renew Deal	Mar 2013	#119
Nope! - Chretien REFUSED to get us involved in Iraq.	ConcernedCanuk	Mar 2013	#125
No, not since President Obama was elected.	Zax2me	Mar 2013	#121
Agree. nt	Raine	Mar 2013	#123
You're preaching to the wrong people.	davidthegnome	Mar 2013	#122
...	L0oniX	Mar 2013	#131

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