On Mar 31, 7:40*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:18:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Mar 31, 11:51*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:55:53 -0400, Kurt Ullman
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* *Why the line? *It the line were just a matter of getting the
records straight, that would be one thing, but it is not a line, it is
a quota. *So how can you justify a quota that allows 50,000 from
country A and 1,000 from country B. *
* * *Because if you let everyone in you get all the hooha that we are
seeing now. It needs to be an orderly way of doing things. It is also,
by definition, a political thing as to the quotas.

Or maybe because country A has a population of *25 million and country
B has a population of 2 million. *If you have no limits and no
controlled process, *then do you want someone chartering 747s and
loading them up in Haiti or India with illiterare, unskilled people
and bringing them here by the millions? * *The simple fact is there
are hundreds of millions that would hop planes to come here if the
door were wide open.

* * * * The old I got mine and I don't want to share? *I wonder what
the Native Americans would have to say about that? *What would your
ancestors have said if they were told .. Sorry not now, we don't want
to share? *Where would you be today?- Hide quoted text -



Again, you can't compare the situation from 100 to 200 years ago to
today. Back then the US needed people because the country was a wide
open territory undergoing huge expansion. Unskilled labor was
needed to build railroads, bridges, sow shirts in factories. Anyone
could dig a ditch. There was no govt welfare available or free
healthcare for the indigent. Today the US is very different and
clearly we do not need more uneducated, unskilled people. Having
limits on how many people the US will accept is totally reasonable.

To make your comparison, how about I want to build a house or expand
my kitchen? At the turn of the century I could generally do that
without any govt involvement. Today, I have strict zoning, building
codes, safety standards, I must comply with and can't use child labor
to build it. I could also freely carry a pistol in public. Can't do
that either.

All those things have changed too because the country has evolved.
I'm still waiting for an answer as to whether you are in favor of
allowing some lib organization that thinks like you to charter 747's
and start ferrying people from any third world country on earth here
in unlimited numbers? Do you remember what happened when Fidel
shoved all the folks he wanted to get rid of out the door in the 70's?