How insightful…

1. Way to get at the heart of the matter: being a poor immigrant IS tougher than being a rich immigrant, isn’t it?

2. Yes, life here for immigrants is easier than in Australia. More opportunities, easier to get loans and an educaiton, more accepting culture (or are you unaware of the racism faced by asians and indians in Australia?

3. “Condoleeza rice blah blah blah.” What are you, 12? Also, try to read something Rice wrote in Foreign Affairs. She might have worked for a shitty government with shitty policies, but if you have read anything she has written and not just parroted The Daily Show you’d realize she’s quite intelligent.

4. You’re so wrong about this it’s unbelievable. Most poor immigrants come here with shit, they are just appreciative of the fact that they have a chance here and they aim to take advantage of it, not sit home whining about how the system is unfair. I’m not even talking about the young ones who get into great colleges and go on to work in programming or engineering or medicine, even the older asians who own dry cleaners and the indians who own corner stores. That’s a success story in itself. You think it’s easy for a foreign to start a business in Europe? Please. You know nothing of the world. Talk to any immigrants in the US, see what they have to say.

Mark, the Exiled has officially gone far too democratic by allowing me even this small outlet, for I am not worthy of one strand of gum-dirt stuck to the bottom of your divine sole. If you can take my whinging in stride, then with all due respect, fuck me.

seriously though, ames hates america, doesn’t he? ames? you a patriot?

We used to have very stringent quotas on immigrants, especially muddy ones like this Voong.

Seems to me we were in much better shape back then.

American capitalism worked beautifully with absurdly high tax rates. And when social structures were a little stronger, and economic nets were a little stronger, you didn’t have this phenomenon. Psycho killers are on a despair, normal distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution They only pop up when every single thing is fucked. The fact that every single detail of their life feels fucked and inverted is the only way they derive the “moral courage” to do these things.

That extreme wasn’t possible before.

Because afterall, that’s what is important in life. What are you, retarded?

“being an immigrant is tough.”

No. Being a POOR immigrant is tough. Rupert Murdoch is an immigrant.

“The truth of the matter though, is that being a legal immigrant in the US is far easier than being an immigrant anywhere else in the world.”

Easier than, say, Australia? Oh, I forgot: American nationalists believe America is the only “free” country in the world. Pity the poor Australians who yearn to escape to the Land of the Free, if only they could cross the Pacific in their little fishing boats.

“If you’re a dumbass, you don’t rise up the ranks in the career ladder.”

Condoleeza Rice and virtually the entire US State Department are living refutations of that theory.

“He could have done what plenty of immigrants do, which is work their asses off or learn a skill.”

The immigrants who prosper in America are not those who “work their asses off”; they’re the ones who already have business connections before they arrive.