In ways it was far easier than Europe. Lots of game to eat. Wood for building and heat was hard to come by in Europe. Disease rampant, crazy crime, oppression, taxes, persecution, no work, no land, famines, wars.I can only begin to imagine how hard it must have been for them. Those first settlers would look at present day humans and think us a bunch of lazy slobs.
Yeah, people like to say their working hard to make a better life for their kids, then piss and moan about how their kids are lazy and coddled.
Last week Obama was criticized for doing too much. This week it's not enough. Where will the next wind blow?
I would not be able to look those children in the eye and tell them "sorry, don't want ya. Too bad a fluke of nature had you born in the wrong country and too bad you have to live under insane violence and poverty, but you didn't fill out the right forms."
These poor innocent children. It's heartbreaking.
In ways it was far easier than Europe. Lots of game to eat. Wood for building and heat was hard to come by in Europe. Disease rampant, crazy crime, oppression, taxes, persecution, no work, no land, famines, wars.
For them it was a Paradise until the English came.
Unfortunately if they sre not stopped it will be bank breaking as well. They are not our problem.
Yeah - and isn't it amazing how he is responsible in the eyes of the deluded right wing for opening up Guatemala's, Honduras's, Belize's, El Salvador's, and Mexico's borders as well as our own???
Another song in the endless broken record of the delusional right wing.
I live in the area with the greatest concentration of illegal aliens per capita in the USA because of the proximity of Big Business Farms in the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys. Those are corporate farms which need uneducated and unskilled people who are willing to work for slave wages. My hometown is simply overwhelmed by the Third World. It's going to get worse, not better. Santa Cruz County has become like Caracas or Bogota with rich, poor, and a dying middle class. The Third Worlders have no connection to American history, culture or traditions. What distinguishes them from prior generations of immigrants is that they will never be assimilated because that principle is no longer operative. Instead, they have become a separate tribe.
These facts tend to produce curious effects in the resident population of Americans. The extreme left here is fine with the Third Worlders in the abstract, but does not want to live or associate with peons or their gangbanger children. The other groups of Americans have become fatalistic or radicalized by the inundation of ignorance and poverty from the Third World.
The experience of being replaced reminds me of what happened to the First Peoples in America. Some attempted to accommodate the white replacements while others attempted to stem the tide. Neither approach worked. I have turned to detachment and gallows humor. That's why I suggest we eat the Children's Crusade from Central America breaking on this shore.
What's particularly disheartening is my belief that the waves of illegals coming here are being orchestrated by the established order for the purpose of replacing Traditional Americans with a more docile and dependent population that will extinguish my identity and creed.
Perhaps the US should return New Spain?
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Why did you add Belize to that list.. the Belize economy is great, the dollar is pegged 50% of the USD, Commonwealth Nation and Laws. It's like living in Canada, just warmer.