(09-16-2023, 04:29 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(09-16-2023, 03:01 PM)mikesez Wrote:  Wait, so you would be less upset if some of these migrants got federally funded benefits?

No. I am saying. Where is the balance? Where is the support for the black communities? Where is the support for the tax payers? The communities that have already been disenfranchised?

How is it okay to ask these people to foot a $51M bill, for a problem they did not create nor personally ask for? While we're in the middle of inflation?

I am all for legal immigrants getting accounted for. For them having a chance here. However, what about these people? Don't they deserve better? Can we not do better?

Surely, we can balance some of this out. I mean, just look at all that Ukraine money and Israel money over the years. Are we going to put our nation's people first? Or, continue to sell them out and push them further down the pecking order?

This feels awfully like class warfare. This feels awfully like things that started tearing down Empires. You can only spread your people and it's resources so far before it's beyond thin.

Unless you're Ukraine, Israel or the Military Industrial Complex apparently.

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It is and it's everywhere all the time affecting everyone but it's often called something else. Black and brown people aren't the only poor people in this country but it's better for the politicians to play this card. I have known some extremely poor white families. I'm talking extreme. Go deep into the hills and mountains of NC, VA, WVA, and KY and you'll see poverty that would make the housing projects and neighborhoods of Chicago, NYC, Detroit, Baltimore, etc., look luxurious. But no one talks about them because they're almost all white. And they possibly don't vote. 

I realize you're talking about something a bit different but that small, bolded sentence, specifically the last two words, is being waged in America on several fronts but no one talks about it.

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