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Originally posted by oldman2003
I learned the hard way. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" and don't give up your rights 'cause you never get them back.... Leave the law alone..it has worked for 200+ years and needs 200 more!
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But that's just it. It
is broke. Just 'cause the country hasn't literally blown up because of this flaw doesn't make it inconsequential. There are plenty of countries in the world, such as my own, which don't have said restriction that are just fine!
The country was doing just fine while black slavery was in place but you
fixed that because it was "broken."
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Originally posted by little limey
I think it's only being brought up to get Arnold in office.
My opinion: I think that it's good how it is. If we change it we will need to put limits on it that someone else will have a problem with. If we do change it, I think that the person needs to have grown up here. Young minds are a lot more impressionable than older ones. So if you some to America when you are old and become a citizen you get less culture and influenced by the culture less than you would if you were under 13. It's just like kids under 13 learn languages a lot better and usually loose thier accents while adults don't. To me, this is all too complicated to make into a law, so it should stay the way it is.
America is not the land of opportunity anymore. Only a rare few are able to make it to the top coming from poverty. Foriegners and citizens alike can just give up hope.
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Yes, it
is being brought up to get Arnold into office. That doesn't change the fact that the current law is wrong and should be changed. Changing the law does
not require additional limits. Why would it? What do you think can possibly happen? It doesn't matter how impressionable you are, if the American public want a "foriegner" (we are requiring that they be citizens, right?) into office, that should be their right! Maybe they want change? Maybe they want a new perspective? Maybe all the other candidates are malevolent dictators bent on destroying the country and this "foreigner" is the only guy you can trust. The American public should have the right to choose!
Maybe America is not the land of opportunity anymore. Maybe America is no longer the land of the free or the just. But does that you mean you should bend over, get yourselves fucked up the ass and say "thank you" for it?
I would hope not...