<p>Not for my grandparents - there were no jobs anywhere, the country was in rough shape and very backwards - different today but still with big problems that make a lot of headlines these days. Just like 100 years ago, there is a net outflux of people going to other countries to live and work.</p>
<p>Yes dstark, Life is tough in Montana. People have choices. Live on govt. handouts and collect unemployment or tough it out and make life better for yourself and your family.</p>
<p>“However, I can be lazy and (sometimes) arrogant.”</p>
<p>Well sure, me too. But I work my butt off and do what it takes when it’s required, and I worked very hard to get to the place where I can be lazy and arrogant. My body and brain remember what it’s like to work endlessly and do without, so I know I can do that again if I have to. No doubt you could do the same.</p>
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So… you’re saying that your blinders are better than mine? :D</p>
<p>Simba…</p>
<p>I was responding to this…</p>
<p>“The same holds true of nearby states with scorching economies such as South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and the like. Why not move there?”</p>
<p>Maybe because people would like a place to live after they work… ;)</p>
<p>These jobs are going to be filled…</p>
<p>As soon as there are places to live…</p>
<p>People live in their cars and under tents already…</p>
<p>And the polluted water from the fracking is just dumped untreated…Anywhere…the dumpers are not too discriminate…</p>
<p>And people are filling these job opportunities…and more will as the housing is built…</p>
<p>Sucks huh?</p>
<p>Because these jobs are going to be filled…</p>
<p>Kind of ruins the idea that Americans are lazy…</p>
<p>Life is a lot easier when you think people are lazy…</p>
<p>Easier to mistreat people that way…</p>
<p>So, the controversy is over whether it’s worse to say that rich people are lazy or that poor people are lazy?</p>
<p>At least Roland Martin said that we’re all lazy.</p>
<p>“I find it is interesting how a statement about how US policymakers did not do enough to promote US goods and services became a statement about Americans being lazy.”</p>
<p>I don’t. Those who interpreted the statement to mean Americans are lazy are obviously too lazy themselves to find out what the context of the statement was referring to.</p>
<p>emilybee, I don’t think the folks who misrepresented the statement as something it wasn’t then flooded the airwaves and internet with the distortion did so out of laziness. I’m pretty sure they knew what was really said and meant and simply viewed it as an opportunity for a cheap shot that would be believed even thought they knew it was a lie. It is true that the folks who don’t fact check the propaganda that is routinely pumped out by people with an agenda are lazy - and ironically, those are the ones who would be quickest to take umbrage at the phonied-up “story” in the first place!</p>
<p>Well kluge, you just have to look at the math and science scores, engineering and post graduate enrollment in ‘harder’ subjects. You will get your answer.</p>
<p>Simba - your post #49 is what’s called a “non sequitur.” </p>
<p>I’m sure it makes sense to you, though… :)</p>
<p>Kluge: I am not lawyer.</p>
<p>" It is true that the folks who don’t fact check the propaganda that is routinely pumped out by people with an agenda are lazy - and ironically, those are the ones who would be quickest to take umbrage at the phonied-up “story” in the first place!"</p>
<p>Kluge, that is who I was referring to in my post. I probably should have been clearer. I also agree with the rest of your post.</p>
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<p>Alsace swapped between France and Prussia / Germany, depending on who won the last war. In 1871, Prussia and other German states defeated France and annexed Alsace and northern Lorraine into the newly unified Germany. In 1918, with the defeat of Germany, Alsace-Lorraine briefly became independent, but was taken over by France shortly thereafter. In 1940, Germany defeated France again and annexed Alsace and Lorraine while occupying much of the rest of France. France regained the region after the defeat of Germany in 1945.</p>
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<p>OK, what huge teeming cities in foreign countries are going to accept millions of American emigrants? Which countries have immigration laws that would accept such large numbers? I’m truly interested to hear. In your original posts you seemed to be advocating mass emigration of Americans but you still haven’t said where they might go. South Dakota is internal migration so it doesn’t count.</p>