"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”) Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one’s own greed! I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean— Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That’s made America the land it has become. O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home— For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore, And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came To build a “homeland of the free.” The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay? For all the dreams we’ve dreamed And all the songs we’ve sung And all the hopes we’ve held And all the flags we’ve hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay— Except the dream that’s almost dead today. O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free. The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME— Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again. Sure, call me any ugly name you choose— The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states— And make America again!" ~~Langston Hughes
My main problem with Donald Trump is the same one I have with Rick Scott. The government is not supposed to run like a business. A business is there to make a profit. The government is not supposed to make a profit. The government is supposed to collect taxes and spend those taxes on the populace. The source of income for the government is taxes. For the government to make a profit, it must collect more taxes than it spends on the people of the country. I'm not at all in favor of that. A government that takes more than it gives is NOT "for the people".
More important than making a profit (or a budget surplus) is not losing money. Our politicians have yet to figure out that spending more than they bring in is harmful to the country in the long run.
Just another point to bring up: (I'm definitely not for Trump, but here's to discussion!) China has a great wall. This great wall was built to protect China, and to stop unwanted people from entering the country. Years later... No one complains about this wall. This wall does the same thing that the wall Trump is proposing will do. This great wall is seem as one of the world's great wonders. It brings tourism and love from around the world.
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, ’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. -Francis Scott Key
The difference is most Mexicans aren't coming over to kill us. I'd also like to point out that more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. right now than coming; 2009-2014 showed a net loss of somewhere around d 140,000.
The thing about Trump's wall is that it literally does nothing. The US does have a problem with illegal immigrants, but it's not because of people crossing the border. In fact, most illegal aliens enter the country legally! The problem is that visas have an expiration date, and no one bothers deporting people whose visas have expired. This is especially fun for people with refugee status, who have only an implicit time limit to go off of specified somewhere in the legislation, but not on the visa. This makes up over 80% of illegal aliens, and results in the same problems as with the stereotypical fence-hopper: They end up working for cheap because they can't work for real. That said, Trump COULD, as president, do something about this, even considering he won't be able to affect legislature at all. What departments got what funding to execute what laws is entirely under his domain.
They may not physically harm Americans (except, y'know... the ones that DO), but they are harming the economy. When an illegal takes a job, that means that an American citizen didn't get the job. As a result, the government is forced to pay to support them and their family. Not only are they taking jobs that should go to Americans, they're willing to take those jobs at low wages. Employers aren't going to pay someone $15 an hour if an illegal is willing to do it for $10. Additionally, most of them send a portion of their pay to family back home, thus removing that money from our economy.
Yeah, that was a problem Canada had a few years back in the 1900's with foreign ownership, etc...and how all the money made in Canada was leaving to go to other countries. Really bad for the economy~
This is how capitalism works. These immigrants are intentionally kept under an illegal status by the law so they can essentially be blackmailed into accepting rock bottom wages (even below minimum wage) for jobs that can't easily be offshored (and when jobs can be offshored, they are offshored) Capitalists are always going to look for a way to reduce costs by going to where labor-power is cheapest. A capitalist who doesn't look to cut costs here risks being overtaken by a competitor that does. And as a capitalist himself, Trump isn't going to do anything to significantly raise the standard of living for workers, no matter what his opportunist rhetoric states. I have far more in common with an immigrant worker, even one classified as "illegal," than with Trump, Hillary, or any other member of the oligarchy that owns and rules this country. People with an agenda never let things like facts get in their way.
Getting rid of illegals and preventing more from coming in will, in fact, raise the standard of living for workers. Without the flood of criminal laborers (and they are, by definition, criminals), American citizens and legal immigrants will find it easier to find fair wages. Also, that's pinko talk, dude. Socialism doesn't work.
I only have one thing to say after the most recent results. On the GOP/Republican side: GET READY FOR A CONTESTED CONVENTION.
I've never voted Republican in my life, but Trump has my vote. It would idiotic of the GOP to choose anyone but Trump.
If 11+ million illegal immigrants were somehow rounded up and deported (not a remotely plausible scenario; this is hypothetical), you would end up paying for it as a consumer; the costs would be passed down to you and others in the form of more expensive produce, services, and anything else resulting from the work of the said immigrants. And if one wants to draw a line between one section of workers for reactionary purposes, I could use this very same logic against southern workers, as the prevalence of conservative anti-union politics down there results in "northern jobs" being "stolen" by "cheap" southern laborers. Empty phrases like "pinko talk" in themselves don't cut much ice. Your argument is further undermined when you add a classic straw man fallacy at the end of it by mistaking socialism for something like Stalinism.
I'm perfectly aware of what socialism is. It's a system in which resources are controlled by the central government and distributed equally to all. Meaning that under socialism, a man who works hard is entitled only to what his government allows him to keep, while the man who does the bare minimum receives a share of what the hard-working man earned. Socialism is, at its core, immoral. It takes from one man what he has earned, and gives to another what he has not earned.
I don't think you really understand what socialism is. Socialism has more variations that what we saw in the USSR. In Nordic countries, what you'll see is the government helping to provide equal opportunities, giving everyone an equal playing field. What you just described sounds more like communism, which is the most extreme variant of socialism.
