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And where in the name of heaven is your gratitude for the taxpayers who supported you, educated you and are helping you to go to one of the top universities in the world?
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I dunno, maybe it was that 500,000 dollar house the Court confiscated when our "father" decided to leech away our family's funds with legal fees by contesting my mother's custody?
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more people on the public dole. A large percentage of the immigrants coming to America illegally are illiterate and don't ever contribute in any meaningful financial manner, and assimilation rates are declining markedly. Not a good thing for a nation, but you wouldn't care about that because this country that has been so kind to you hasn't earned your loyalty or gratitude.
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That's what you think.
I have a love-hate relationship with this country, and for good reason. I am not blind to the benefits that have been afforded me. But I am not blind to the benefits that have not been afforded to my fellow brothers. And so why should I be content? Why should I remain obedient and dumb to a problem that merits more attention? On the contrary, my experiences with the system only make me more resolved to change it.
You think I am ingrateful. But I would gladly defend the country. I'd give my life for it, even though I've been on roller coaster terms with it. And that is love isn't it?
Better my love be like Cordelia's -- honest and frank -- than Goneril and Regan's false flattery.
A left libertarianism would provide a more systemic and better means of self-actualisation than straight handouts.
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don't ever contribute in any meaningful financial manner
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That's not what economics says.
So many people -- many of them surprisingly being educated -- subscribe to the fallacy that immigrants are somehow "stealing jobs" or leeching away from the economy, but those arguments don't make any economic sense.
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Thank heavens for anonymity.
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I'm not anonymous.
I have readily echoed these points before.
There were more efficient (left libertarian) means of social aid that I would have taken -- but alas, the State didn't offer them. So my family took what was offered. We couldn't be choosy. This is not already counting the nice donation of our house that we gave to society because of the injustices in the way the court handled my parents' divorce.