It is to America's advantage that Mexico remain corrupt. Hell, America needs all of south america to remain in a semi-3rd world state. As for Africa, who is trying to stop the killing in Africa? When the Tutsi's and the Hutu's (you mispelled their tribal names... makes me wonder how much you know about that conflict... did you know that it was started during the colonization of Africa by the europeans?) went to war against eachother Europe and America didn't do anything to stop it, instead they just decided to get their citizens out of there and then watch the kiling on CNN. Why? Because it wasn't to their advantage. There was no money in it.
Now you want to be able to have someone decide whether or not they deserve to live in the US. If that's the case, shouldn't we have someone decide whether or not current citizens should live here as well? If you really want to make the US as good as it can be, and want a group of people who decide what an "american citizen" is and isn't (and I guarantee that prejudice will play a role... it always does in these things) shouldn't the door swing both ways? I'm willing to bet you'd say no, and rightly so, but logically based on your arguments it should.
I find it very curious that you hate the idea of someone being born into power (and it can be argued that being born american essentially makes you a monarch to the rest of the world)... that you feel that being born American is your birth-right and that you deserve this life. And at the same time, by the way you described Africa and Mexico, you seem to think that the people suffering in other countries have brought it upon themselves. Reread the way you wrote it, Chris, you essentially blame the entire population of the rest of the world for its lot in life and give yourself a hearty pat on the back for yours.
Outside of graduating high school, marrying Fumie, and leaving the US... what have you done to make the US as great as you seem to think it is? Surely you must have done something pretty amazing, since you are able to take such a condescending tone when referring to the failings of the rest of the world.
Personally, if I had my way I'd axe all nations, at most giving them state-like power. I'd take the funding that we have spent on national defense, which we wouldn't need, and create a functioning police force for the entire world and use the excess for education. Then I'd institute a law that would make it only legal to pass down your weath to the next generation. So if your dad is rich, you get the money when he dies. But your son doesn't. There is a mark on your record that says how much you inherited, so you need to either spend that money or invest it and make more. The money you inherited goes to the state, and the excess can be passed down. Right now we have billions just being held as expensive cushion stuffing by a small percentage of the population and it encourages this dynastic bullshit that plagues the world. Then you take that money and you, that's right, dump it into education. We should live in a world that isn't a giant market place, rather it is a giant school. A child in the mountains of Peru should have the same chance at being a lawyer or a doctor that a Rockefeller has. And the more educated people become, it has been shown that the less likely they are to commit crime and do all other manner of horrible things. Why? Because with education comes hope for a better future.
You should try it, Chris. Dream a little. Imagine a better future rather than doing what the ruling class want you to do, which is saying "Enh, live in the real world hippy." You're just lining their pockets and acting as their work-horse.
It would also fix a major problem, which is that those who create the wealth of the world are never the ones to share in it. But that is a conversation for another time.
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Date: 2005-11-11 08:14 pm (UTC)Now you want to be able to have someone decide whether or not they deserve to live in the US. If that's the case, shouldn't we have someone decide whether or not current citizens should live here as well? If you really want to make the US as good as it can be, and want a group of people who decide what an "american citizen" is and isn't (and I guarantee that prejudice will play a role... it always does in these things) shouldn't the door swing both ways? I'm willing to bet you'd say no, and rightly so, but logically based on your arguments it should.
I find it very curious that you hate the idea of someone being born into power (and it can be argued that being born american essentially makes you a monarch to the rest of the world)... that you feel that being born American is your birth-right and that you deserve this life. And at the same time, by the way you described Africa and Mexico, you seem to think that the people suffering in other countries have brought it upon themselves. Reread the way you wrote it, Chris, you essentially blame the entire population of the rest of the world for its lot in life and give yourself a hearty pat on the back for yours.
Outside of graduating high school, marrying Fumie, and leaving the US... what have you done to make the US as great as you seem to think it is? Surely you must have done something pretty amazing, since you are able to take such a condescending tone when referring to the failings of the rest of the world.
Personally, if I had my way I'd axe all nations, at most giving them state-like power. I'd take the funding that we have spent on national defense, which we wouldn't need, and create a functioning police force for the entire world and use the excess for education. Then I'd institute a law that would make it only legal to pass down your weath to the next generation. So if your dad is rich, you get the money when he dies. But your son doesn't. There is a mark on your record that says how much you inherited, so you need to either spend that money or invest it and make more. The money you inherited goes to the state, and the excess can be passed down. Right now we have billions just being held as expensive cushion stuffing by a small percentage of the population and it encourages this dynastic bullshit that plagues the world. Then you take that money and you, that's right, dump it into education. We should live in a world that isn't a giant market place, rather it is a giant school. A child in the mountains of Peru should have the same chance at being a lawyer or a doctor that a Rockefeller has. And the more educated people become, it has been shown that the less likely they are to commit crime and do all other manner of horrible things. Why? Because with education comes hope for a better future.
You should try it, Chris. Dream a little. Imagine a better future rather than doing what the ruling class want you to do, which is saying "Enh, live in the real world hippy." You're just lining their pockets and acting as their work-horse.
It would also fix a major problem, which is that those who create the wealth of the world are never the ones to share in it. But that is a conversation for another time.