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Fear of immigration
| June 19th, 2016 at 8:11:14 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | It seems like the fear of immigration is a worldwide trend today. It seems to be a big part of BREXIT. Someone captured these Moroccan illegal immigrants sneaking into Melilla, a Spanish city on the African coast which Spain conquered in 1497.   |
| June 19th, 2016 at 10:07:52 AM permalink | |
| TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 | Is sneaking the right term....? It also goes to show even with a very short wall, people are going to get in, over and around it. Trump's wall vision is noise and puffery, which his supporters will claims is all just an analogy... but who knows really what he wants. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
| June 19th, 2016 at 11:45:39 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Fear of immigrants such as syndicalists, socialists and communists is what brought us Prohibition. At various times in our history the most hated immigrants were: Irish, Portugese, blacks, Ukrainians. The only thing that ever sealed the US Mexico border was The Great Depression and even then it was most definitely not a perfect seal. During the Depression young men could cross the Canadian Border only if they did so with their thumbs up |
| June 19th, 2016 at 12:15:18 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Walls provide brilliant photo ops. I remember this one, even though I was age 4 when it first appeared.  |
| June 19th, 2016 at 5:12:05 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18221 |
There is a difference between immigration and "invasion." Sneaking over borders is invasion, not immigration. Unless you are willing to say that me doing a B&E to your home is just a visit. I hope Brexit passes. Why would the Brits would want to keep being part of the mess the EU is making? The President is a fink. |
| June 19th, 2016 at 6:14:32 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
BREXIT may be followed by the exit of Sweden (Norway and Iceland were never part of EU, Finland is part of Eurozone, and Denmark currency is very tied to Germany). Queen Elizabeth's domains include UK , Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and some minor places. If UK and Canada were to integrate currencies they would have a nominal GDP higher than that of Japan with a smaller population.
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| June 19th, 2016 at 6:38:09 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18221 |
If the Brits were smart they would start forming a union/Free Trade area with the USA, Canada, Oz NZ, and maybe India. Sort of the Commonwealth plus the USA. With a common language, it would be a real force. Given the direction the world has been going it may be time. Germany would then be near unobstructed to dominate the shrunken EU. Who would stop them? France? Their next logical step would be a bear-hug with Poland, making an export-machine of the first order. The rest of Europe would collapse to one extent or another. While it is a dream, crazier things have happened there. The President is a fink. |
| June 19th, 2016 at 8:08:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 | GDP for the US is 16 trillion. With China, they have more than 50% of the worlds GDP between them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| June 20th, 2016 at 3:10:54 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18221 |
Kind of scary for the world. A huge part of China's growth has been in supplying the USA and the Harbor Freights of the world. Much of it remains in a third world state. The majority of the population of the world is unproductive and poor. Too many nations simply try to pull themselves up by exporting to rich countries, never stimulating a domestic market. China kind of sees they need to do this, but they are wasting so much money building unneeded things to be scary. As Americans get more and more financially tapped out what happens? The President is a fink. |
| June 20th, 2016 at 3:18:13 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | With 3d printing, robotic manufacturing and robotic shipments... who needs people for workers anymore? Soldiers perhaps? consumers perhaps? but workers? Why? Drones will shortly do inventory at WalMart. |