Is it true that republicans cannot be bought in this sense?
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Fair enough, around here most of the restaurants, pretty much every convenience store, a realtor, lots of law firms, lots of medical offices, a number of salons and nail places and lots of stores that cater towards immigrant communities all come to mind. And those are just off of the top of my head.
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I meant what I said, stop putting words in my mouth.
The time when what's now known as America contained Native Americans, Eskimos, and Pacific Islanders.
Columbus and 1492 are false refence points as supposedly there were white settlers before that. And that's the only distinction I am making, between people who had lived there for Centuries (as a result of tectonic shift or whatever), and those who arrived looking for new lands to explore / colonise as visitors from other countries, by choice, much later on.
Fair enough, around here most of the restaurants, pretty much every convenience store, a realtor, lots of law firms, lots of medical offices, a number of salons and nail places and lots of stores that cater towards immigrant communities all come to mind. And those are just off of the top of my head.
Actually that's true about restaurants, where I live, I wasn't thinking of those. But haven't had that experience with medical offices or law firms. Don't go to salons much, but I can try to look out for it and pay attention to it .
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I meant what I said, stop putting words in my mouth.
The time when what's now known as America contained Native Americans, Eskimos, and Pacific Islanders.
Columbus and 1492 are false refence points as supposedly there were white settlers before that. And that's the only distinction I am making, between people who had lived there for Centuries (as a result of tectonic shift or whatever), and those who arrived looking for new lands to explore / colonise as visitors from other countries, by choice, much later on.
Viking colonization was never significant to be relevant to overall population trends, at least based on existing evidence.
The only period where the Americas were significantly empty after the arrival of indigenous peoples was when portions of the population were dying from introduced diseases. That period doesn't provide an accurate assessment of how things were prior to contact.
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Fair enough, around here most of the restaurants, pretty much every convenience store, a realtor, lots of law firms, lots of medical offices, a number of salons and nail places and lots of stores that cater towards immigrant communities all come to mind. And those are just off of the top of my head.
Actually that's true about restaurants, where I live, I wasn't thinking of those. But haven't had that experience with medical offices or law firms. Don't go to salons much, but I can try to look out for it and pay attention to it .
Using the restaurant example: when they're smaller the business only creates jobs for the family (and sometimes ends up paying less than minimum wage to the family members pitching in) but if it grows they end up hiring locals, even if there's a lot of family members to hire on before some locals are needed.
The one burrito place I like, a franchise opened up near me and I've watched it basically from day one until now. At first everyone I saw working was a family member but gradually some of them moved on to other jobs as the place became more established. It now employs a handful of people. Part of how they do things is that once the one gets a business off the ground they help seed money for the next family member to pursue their idea.
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made... and they won't even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X
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Oh okay, that makes sense. But is the American government's interest in bringing in so many immigrants really just to be nice? It seems like they wouldn't do it unless there is something in it for them. I don't think most immigrant businesses or them having jobs would effect the government will it? So are they really doing it just out of the goodness of the heart, nothing more?
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Well, as they become employed they'll pay taxes right? And those taxes will pay for things the government wants to do.
I don't believe any government acts purely out of a desire to be kind, even when they do the right thing it's because they see the benefits of doing so, not because it's kind or generous to do so. Appearing kind and generous might even be a benefit, but it's never the only one.
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made... and they won't even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X
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Oh but the government has all these programs for paying money to people in times of need though, so in that case, wouldn't they being more money to more people in need, and thus it would all even out anyway, without them really getting any extra tax money from immigrants, if they have to pay more out and it all evens out therefore?
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Historically investing in letting immigrants in and find their feet has been a worthwhile investment for governments. It has upfront costs, but in the long run it's beneficial.
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Explorer Captain Cook lied to the British crown that Australia was "terra nullius" ignoring the 40,000 year old civilisation that was already living there. The declaration precipitated the European settlement and the de-population of millions of indigenous people (pre-colonial estimates are likely an underestimate as disease was (as always) the biggest killer.
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