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Food Eater Lad · 10-23-2003, 06:11 PM

So again, nice rice Norway doesnt need dirty third worlders fleeing some dictator or natural disaster coming in to their nation to make their lives better. And what jobs should uneducated people get? Lets let uneducated third worlders in to America and make them pilots, doctors and lawyers?
The fact is, they come here to make a better life for themselves, something America clearly offers. We could be isolationist like Norway and let the undesirables to their own misfortune, as you say Norway does.
What is better, scrubbing toilets in America, living a longer healthier life while your children get educated and rise on the social ladder, or living in poverty with a shorter life span while your children have no hope of a better existance than your own?

How can you even claim to hold the moral high ground on this? Your anti Americanism is showing.

My grandparents came to America from Italy and Romania, one fleeing the facists, the others fleeing the nazis. I guess if they chose Norway I would be a lampshade now.
Both sets worked in a factory and lived in a cold water flat. Their sons all got educated and became craftsmen, and their children became proffesionals. Not bad for poor, uneducated toilet scrubbers.

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Food Eater Lad Banned	So again, nice rice Norway doesnt need dirty third worlders fleeing some dictator or natural disaster coming in to their nation to make their lives better. And what jobs should uneducated people get? Lets let uneducated third worlders in to America and make them pilots, doctors and lawyers? The fact is, they come here to make a better life for themselves, something America clearly offers. We could be isolationist like Norway and let the undesirables to their own misfortune, as you say Norway does. What is better, scrubbing toilets in America, living a longer healthier life while your children get educated and rise on the social ladder, or living in poverty with a shorter life span while your children have no hope of a better existance than your own? How can you even claim to hold the moral high ground on this? Your anti Americanism is showing. My grandparents came to America from Italy and Romania, one fleeing the facists, the others fleeing the nazis. I guess if they chose Norway I would be a lampshade now. Both sets worked in a factory and lived in a cold water flat. Their sons all got educated and became craftsmen, and their children became proffesionals. Not bad for poor, uneducated toilet scrubbers. Last edited by Food Eater Lad; 10-23-2003 at 06:13 PM..