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You can have a welfare state, and you can accept lots of immigrants, but its very destructive to do both.

Closed shops were made illegal in 1947. What work are you talking about getting paid $22/hour?

This is more or less correct, though incorrect in some important specifics. For example, it wasn't necessarily semi-slave labor. The best example of what happened is with automobiles. When protections that made foreign automobiles non-competitive financially were removed, the reality was that...

What crippled America's industrial power were protectionist policies that made our industry fat and lazy, and Nixon and later Presidents giving China insanely favorable trade deals. I do agree that public sector unions aren't desirable at all and shouldn't exist, albeit with the caveat that we...

Unions are overwhelmingly beneficial - there's a reason why the US economy's strength and union strength largely coincided. There are certainly problems with unions - there are with all systems - but unions are largely just plain good. You get the benefits of better regulated pay, with most of...

Where did I say you agree with him? Also, feels very silly for you to hope to political name calling as an insult. I'd say its "leftist" of you, but that would be absurd. :rolleyes: In any case - I don't call him racist simply for saying one thing. Its probably the hundredth or so time he's...

So if someone said, "Any time I see Native Americans by the wreckage of a building, I assume they're looters," you'd be a-OK with that, right? For consistencies sake?

They are in good condition, when most stuff is obviously destroyed. You take the stuff in good condition out of a wrecked house first. Its not that complicated. What's the point of living with a brain that can't come up with an argument better than the lowest possible ad hominem imaginable?

"I will believe black people are thieves unless I am personally there to check and make sure they aren't," is not any sort of sane pattern recognition. Nope, that's not how that works.

If your threshold on believing, "black people in this picture of people combing through a home's rubble aren't looting," is only satisfied by having personally been there yourself to make sure they weren't, then yeah, you might in fact be racist. That has little to do with corporate media.

What she doesn't mention is that anybody living in NYC doing food service, housekeeping, or janitorial is also on government aid because none of those jobs pay enough to live in NYC. Not quite as bad in Rochester or Albany but... still not great. Not to mention that there's no such thing as...