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Originally Posted by sweetpea
Well, when all YOUR families came here... unless they were Native American... THEY were helped.
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Hehe, yeah my ancestors were totally helped when they came here. They were given free passage across the ocean, and given the most state-of-the-art shacks to house them. They also were fed the choicest scraps of meat. They had plenty of hours to lounge in the sun, getting a great workout. And if this wasn't enough, there were random beatings/lynchings thrown in! Man, what help they received!
Seriously, a statement like that is just ignorant. Most of the original settlers weren't helped when they arrived. They fought for what they got. And many of the later waves of settlers/refugees worked extremely hard for whatever they could get. America isn't (and shouldn't be) the world's welfare system. If it were up to me, I'd take the Statue of Liberty and it's silly inscription and ship the lot of them back to France.