Uhh...that is not true. All of our first ten presidents were born here. On the article: the promotion called for "all expectant New Year's mothers" to apply. It was not announced that the mother must be legal (although that was an official requirement for the company). I guess that added to the problem.
There are plenty of Americans that do the same, and are not really 'needy' as they are 'scammers'. I have seen this happen first-hand numerous times. In fact I had no idea how frequent it was until I moved, but now I feel like that proportion of 'scammers' is 50%, instead of the 10% that I presumed before.
It was a rule, but it was in small print and didn't seem to be an obvious rule since it was to reward the first baby born in 2007. I think its right on to say that she didn't know that citizenship was required to enter. When they barred the woman her money in the first place, I thought that was fine based on the rules, even though I knew it would be a bad PR move and that it didn't have anything to do with the spirit of the contest. Then when they backpedelled, I thought it was fine as well since it wasn't a flagrant violation and that they are a corporation that needs to look out for its best interests. I can understand if you think she shouldn't get the 25K because she broke the rules, in the same sense, you should never complain about getting a ticket if you got caught speeding or if you get screwed over in a contract due to not reading the fine print. If you still complain over the other stuff, then your motivations against the mother are probably either xenophobic or anti-chinese related.
A strong argument could be made that keeping both out of the Presidency is a good thing. I'll side with the Founding Fathers on this one.... here's the text... No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; Hamilton himself in Federalist #68: Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? John Jay in a letter to Washington during the Constitutional Convention: Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expresly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen I'm just enough of a conservative to fear a non-native President. Of course, if we're talking about amending the Constitution on this issue, I might be in favor of disqualifying candidates with close personal ties to oil monarchies and dictators.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get here legally? How much **** one has to go through? All I hear is "as long as they come here legally, I love immigrants". Avg amount of money needed to immigrate legally is $10,000.00 US dollars. Now if people had that kind of money in the country they are in, they wouldn't want/have to come to the land of opportunity. Sort of a catch-22 really.
In Texas at least, illegal immigrants help the economy. On the whole they add to the economy much more than they drain it. Last year in TX they added 18 billion over anything they drained from it. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/Cri...N08361121&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-2&rpc=92
So the question will be: why not just open the border to illegal immigrants and import like 4-5 millions every year to Texas?
i agree with this. if you break the law and get caught, don't get angry with the police. you broke the law. if you want it changed, vote for change. the same goes for a contract. however small the print, your word is your bond. get somebody else to read over it before you sign it, otherwise pay up. also, this is why we have lawyers, they get to fight for you... in this case the company bent under pressure.
saying they add more than they drain is short sighted. it is merely looking at the dollar to dollar amount and not other factors involved with everyday living, and how much of a drain they cause such as the increased cars on the road less gasoline is available less water to drink less food to eat increased waiting room time in hospitals increased insurance rates for drivers higher density population areas
Which all leads to more work for construction crews and companies, gas stations, food service employees and companies, etc. So the economy benefits by those actions as well.
meh they toys r us probably just gave the money to save them self from any sort of negative publicity. its easier to give 25,000 then say have asian ppl bugging about your practices or whatever possible discriminations there might be. now lets abolish minimum wage, thats really hurting the economy.
My girlfriend is a Swedish citizen and I know how how difficult it is first hand. That is why it is important to do it legally and support the legal immigrants. You are hurting the ones that are DOING THE RIGHT THING.
I don't know about that...Of the immigrants that have cars (and no insurance), they had to have purchased them from someone, in cash...Less water, of course, but food? Who do you think picks the food? Immigrants...As for waiting room time, no...Unless you're at the hospital where you don't have insurance... On a side note, I would suggest you guys look at this...HDNet ...The immigrants journey story was pretty good, for those of you that have HD programming... Fri., Jan. 12th 1:00 PM ET Immigrants' Journey, Presidential Funeral, James Brown - World Report cameras follow a family of immigrants as they make the dangerous journey from Mexico into the U.S. Plus, extended highlights from the Funeral of President Gerald R. Ford. And a special farewell to the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
this answer is short sighted. its good for business only because it keeps costs low. it doesn't take in to account any of the lasting effects of what i mentioned. if all you are concerned with is how much money you have, or how low the interest rate remains then i can see your point, but i highly doubt this is all that concerns you. this is also a short sighted view. if they pay cash for the car, chances are there aren't any taxes being paid on it. thus it circumvents any benefit of that purchase. you can't dispute the fact that the more mouths there are to feed, the less food will be available. Americans eat too much as it is, so less food would probably be a good thing, but if food becomes scarce the poverty stricken will suffer the most. so yes, there might be more people picking the food, but there are still more people eating it too. and finally, hospitals aren't meant to be used for minor scrapes, or the common cold. that is what doctors and doctor offices are for. the emergency rooms are being filled with people who are seeking free treatment rather than those who have true health problems.
I see what you are saying, but you do understand that if the illegal immigrants are buying gas, clothes, food, etc. they do pay taxes on that. Also because they are spending money, they are adding to the economy by increasing demand for products. Increased demand for products means business people will start new businesses which will hire more workers etc. The immigrants both legal and illegal are spending their money which helps keeps the economy growing. Working for low paying jobs, and low interest rates is a seperate issue. I agree with you about hospitals not being used for minor incidents, which is why a nationalized healthcare system would take care of that.
this is then where the question is. how much of a plus or minus does it have on the economy as a whole? it certainly helps on the national level (for now) but it hurts on the state, county, and city level. i also failed to mention, the vast amount of money that is being sent back to homelands untaxed. if passed, HB 29 in the texas house will address this... though i think it unfairly targets mexico, and central/south america. but with this the money would go to the health care support account, so it's something to watch. i don't think a universal national healthcare system would work. though its for another thread, see canada or most of europe's pluses and minuses. i really like what massachusetts has done, and some sort of plan similar to this should be given a serious look... though i don't know if it could be done on a national level or not, and with this method, this still leaves out workers who are off the grid. thus we are still left trying to address the problem.
I hear what you're saying, in total, but in the above instance, If you or I were to buy a car from an individual, there would be no tax either...In fact, if we traded our used car and bought a new car, we would only pay tax for the difference in value, not the total purchase price... Either way, any type of spending helps our economy...now if they send it back to family, then I can see your point...However, they get paid so little, I would argue that its a push... This entire country was built upon people of different races, backgrounds and colors...Even if we lock down the borders, we'll still have a problem...
Whatever - the parents are illegals - they should get deported once the DHS figures out who the parents are. There are rules and laws that govern our country - and we can't encourage other illegals to come to our country by being tolerate of indigressions against the law. If you come here illegally, you will be sent back.
it's been so long since i bought a car from an individual i don't remember the specifics... i do remember paying taxes on the $4800 i paid for it, when i went to register it, though not how much. i doubt many illegals are bothering with registration, but they may. i can't argue this one way or the other. it's actually a huge amount of money, money transfers from the US to Latin America are expected to reach $25 billion by 2010. obviously not all of these transfers are made by illegals, but that is still a huge amount of money that goes untaxed. like i said in a previous post, they certainly help on the national level (for now), but hurt on the state, county, and city level. this is such a difficult issue with no easy answer. amnesty is not the answer, neither is rounding them up and shipping them back. a wall probably isn't the answer either. the obvious solution should be to improve the countries these people are coming from.
