Dr_Phibes wrote:88 wrote:Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:I've had access to first-rate health care since the day I was born.
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Excellent medical professionals and clean modern hospitals.
Where are the slums in Canada that are commensurate in scope to those found in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, most California cities, etc. etc. etc.?
Oh, come on! What's your argument?
I know what it is and it's self-defeating. With less disparity comes less illness - a healthful population is in the national interest. This is so obvious, how can you argue that?
His argument, when you boil it down, comes to the fact that cotton couldn't be grown in Canada. Also, Canada is geographically blessed. The only country you can walk into it from is the US. We are basically the bouncer at the door to Club UM.
One other little thing I thought I would throw in, and it is one of my states biggest challenges, is the fact that Canada didn't get the bright idea to colonize any of Latin America.
We did. It's called PR.
PR is a nice place. They make a good mojito. Lovely beaches. Unfortunately, they aren't the most industrious people in the world. And while they love being in a place which isn't on the wrong side of zero degrees today, they do love them some free shit.
For years migrants from the Islands would come here to work the shade tobacco farms of the Connecticut river valley. For some reason this area is good for growing the worlds best shade tobacco which is used to wrap cigars.
Anyhoo. They used to come up for the season, then each fall, they'd say, "fukk, it's getting chilly. I'm going back to Aquadilla. See you in april, amigo.
Then LBJ rolled out the Great Society. And Manuel went "huh?" "Jew mean if I stay, Jew gimme a check? Looks like I better get me a nice winter coat."
Yeah, go ahead, call me racist. I had front row seats to this transformation of Connecticut from being the richest, lily whitest state in the Union, to being in competition with Illinois and New Jersey for most financially disfunctional. And I think a large part of this problem is that we were simply over-run by PRs over the last 50+ years.
Ct's hispanic population is 15.4% and growing fast. The large majority of these are from PR.
Imagine if tomorrow, all of Latin America could walk right in the front door, American citizenship papers in hand and sign up for every available welfare program there is.
That is us, for a half century now. Of course as the good ship Ct sinks beneath the waves from being overcrowded by deadbeats, they'll go elsewhere. Florida seems to be popular at the time and the Dems are using PR migration to FL as part of their demographic shift strategy to take over. The fact that PRs appear to be unable to unfukk themselves after Maria bent them over, is accelerating this strategy.