have we learned nothing?

[[AK]Squidly]

No I don't play games anymore. None of the recent online games do anything for me and I'm bored with the old ones. Maybe I'll play online games sometime in the future. I'll let you know.

And I'm NOT insulting anyone.

Regarding the issue, it's fine to muscle up and say:

"Maybe US Business should take a peek at how they are getting their work done and change it, regardless of cost. It's their policy that has caused our social ills. They can clean up their own mess."

It sounds all tough and stuff. Moxie! However this issue requires Kerryesque levels of nuance. The problem is deep. You cannot expect companies to voluntarily gut themselves, or the government to force them to. If you say YES! DO IT! Without any consideration for the real world, then I have to say that's an unlikely, overly SIMPLISTIC viewpoint. Sorry! No insult intended!


I'd love to see a practical solution to the problem. I have a hunch it'd take decades of gradual, scheduled reforms - taking ALL the issues into account and addressing them all in turn. Slamming the door is neither practical or prudent.

When the cost of food and manufacturing goes up, the price of everything goes up. When millions of Americans lose their jobs because their companies can no longer afford to operate, then it effects all of us.

Finally, I don't have all the answers, but I know when I see one that doesn't cover all the bases.

[[AK]Squidly]

Regarding this:

Name me a great immigrant accomplishment in the last 50 years?

Many of the the greatest minds of the world have immigrated to the US. This is where the best science has been done, and continues to be done.

First, second, and third generation immigrants are scattered throughout our medical, educational, and scientific communities. The brain drain is flowing in our direction, and we are a stonger nation because of it.

Annecdote that may interest only me: The doctor that tended to me last week in the ER was Chinese, and the dentist I went to today was Pakistani.

[[AK]Choozoo]

I stand corrected.