Americans have no right to vote for a President

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i changed my mind. stay over in your country and don't come here to vote.

Neither do you, because you're under a vastly mistaken impression of what people in other nations think about Americans. You've never met a European, have you?

My country is America. Yours would be what.. Mexico?
I saw an ad on TV the other night that was promoting tourism to, as Arnold called it, "Califawnia". The ad showed beautiful beaches, sunsets, and palm trees, but not a single person of Latino descent. Why would that be I wondered, and why would California need to promote tourism anyway? Could it be that the entire state is bankrupt? Thats odd.

I applaud immigration legal or not. I believe however that immigration to America should be mixed as equally as possible between those of every origin and ethnicity. Everyone deserves freedom and democracy, but nobody should have an advantage due to their geographic location. The "Mexification" of Americas Southwest does nothing but serve the interests of Mexico. Mexico, troubled as it may be, is still a great country, yet only a single member of the world community. Again nothing against Mexicans, but they are no more entitled to freedom and democracy than people from other countries are. America is a melting pot, not a bowl of bean dip.

Translation="I have nothing against mexicans as long as long as they live in another country and not in my neighborhood"

you're wrong

Instead of sharing my neighborhood with only illegal aliens from Mexico, I would prefer to share it with illegal aliens from China, Egypt, and Somalia as well.

thats what Im saying
but feel free to interpret it any way you like

And you care about the racial makeup of your neighborhood, why?

Why? His birthright is apparently partial ownership of the richest nation in the world and the most powerful military in the world. So, if he has that by birth, then he has the power to support oppressive nationalism disguised as American patriotism as his birthright. How is the logic misguided.


Why? Why not later? Why not never?


Why can't we stand on our own strength as we normally do? I mean, there are some recession worries but really the economy isn't *that* bad. The reason why everyone thinks we are collapsing is because of the media rather than looking at the facts, as our unemployment rate is still in a healthy range and we haven't dipped into recession. The major thing to worry about is a worsening of our conditions but likely we will recover.

The media has nothing to gain by promoting the idea that we're in a recession since it makes people less likely to buy the products being advertised on their channel.

No, they have a lot to gain as it makes people more likely to watch their channel. Just think of it like a prisoner's dilemma thing: Perhaps if we both play it straight we gain the most, but if I play it ugly and you don't then I gain relatively and this leads to us both doing it. This is worsened by the fact that the media doesn't really know much about the economy. Frankly, part of this might also be psychology as there is a bit of a panic-mode mentality going on as wall street is taking some crap, politicians want to point fingers and make themselves look important, etc. Really though, even if there is a recession it isn't likely to be the end of the US as so many people pretend. The US has been through terrible recessions before.

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CNN just reported that the US lost 80,000 jobs in March
No way thats healthy, but Im sure you could always dispute
the number, or blame the media for sensationalizing it.

They only want us to watch their channel so they can show us ads which they're paid for showing. If consumer spending drops, so do advertising budgets, and so does the revenue of the network. It's all quite simple, really, and it applies to all media.

I didn't say that we are perfectly healthy. There is no doubt that we aren't. However, our unemployment rate in March was 5.1%, which is higher than it was before(4.8% last month, which is actually pretty good) but still 5.1% is within a relatively healthy range. I am also not arguing that we could be falling into a recession, in fact the 80k can reflect us doing so, but recessions are rarely the end of the world.

Umm... yeah, I know. I think I already put down the Prisoner's Dilemma logic, not only that, but I would not deny that psychology is involved in this. In fact, some economists would argue that psychology is a lot of what is involved here rather than a deep, fundamental economic malaise. Really though, each individual news station does not exercise the greatest control over consumer spending given the number of other factors involved. Really, I would estimate that consumer spending is going to have a lot to do with what individuals think of their own financial state of affairs rather than the macroeconomy. Not only that, but I am not arguing about whether we are going to be in a recession but rather whether or not the media is overhyping it in a manner reflective of crisis mode psychology rather than economic calculation.

I would like to see America truly become
a multi-cultural bastion of freedom for anyone
of any race who is committed to working hard,
paying taxes and coexisting peacefully.

I believe ideally all races should
be represented equally.

Why? Isn't equal representation merely another form of racial discrimination?

Not in America, a microcosm of what the
"planet at large" should strive to become
in terms of equality among the diverse.

We all deserve the right to choose for
ourselves what appeals to us, but not at the
expense of our fellow man or the planet

America is not meant to be some perfect ideal, it is meant to be a functioning nation.

Ok, well, that really depends on what you mean by that. Frankly, all that means to me is that we put proper taxes on externalities and use a market economy.