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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:04 PM Original message |
"We don't need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in the State of Colorado!!!!!11" |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Help the tax payers and take in a few into your home. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And where in this essay does the writer request taxpayer dollars to support them? |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I have taken to public transportation for the first time in my life. |
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enid602 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. reflection |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. In San Francisco, the buses are crowded with locals. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. I would be happy that central americans are not polluting the air |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 08:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Hispanics don't pay taxes? |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 10:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Damn lucky, aren't they? |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. They either don't make enough to money pay taxes or can't because |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:38 AM Response to Reply #18 |
53. What a racist fool you are. nt |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 07:52 AM Response to Reply #53 |
55. I'm thinking that about you blaming all your problems on |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #55 |
65. All my problems? What are all my problems? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. 50 billions is not enough? |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. 50 billions of what for who? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Illegal immigrants paying more taxes than you think |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Deleted |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. There are some studies and statistics |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. deleted |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Then these studies are lies. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:55 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. ask anyone that works for the IRS |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:12 AM Response to Reply #41 |
51. You have a direct line to them? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:19 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. I guess you are not a tax payer, I have 2 friend who work for the IRS |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #52 |
54. If they know who doesn't pay taxes why aren't they going |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #54 |
63. don't forget tax cuts and your 300 dollar "stimulus" check |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. How do you know how much and by who? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. THANK YOU for truth and accuracy.They pay taxes every time they turn around,just like the rest of us |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:52 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Not in my area. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:58 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. that is cayman island or alcatraz? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:01 AM Response to Reply #39 |
44. What, workers don't buy stuff at the grocery store, clothing, gas? They all get paid cash? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. I buy my stuff with burlap and ticking. |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #39 |
70. THEY DONT PAY TAXES WHEN THEY BUY GAS?? ARE YOU NUTS??? |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:53 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I'd like to just pay that kind of tax. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #40 |
48. Talk to Bush and the Repubs. According to them they cut your taxes. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:10 AM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Nope...we don't make that much money to have a tax |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 08:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
57. Many Hispanics do pay taxes. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
35. That's a pretty broad assumption, TomInTib, no? The majority of bus riders |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:03 AM Response to Reply #3 |
46. How do you know that? Does hispanic automatically mean illegal? |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #46 |
56. And you are a citizen? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 09:00 AM Response to Reply #56 |
61. I was born in Chicago. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #56 |
62. See post #57. |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 10:58 AM Response to Reply #46 |
64. I grew up along the Texas border. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. I don't know if I could spot an immigrant who is here |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #66 |
71. I may have misspoken. |
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Popol Vuh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. No Problem |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. The American Indians should have told us immigrants that. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. aha, at gunpoint , sure |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
69. how about we cut the Defense budget by 75% and buy them all McMansions |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. The problem isn't the words he used, but what he meant by them. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 08:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
60. Or is he scared at what is happening to his country and |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. Scared by Mexican immigrants? |
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angrycarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. I hear it all the time in the construction industry |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. We sure as hell need 5000 somebodys to work our crops. |
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Saturday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. You sound just like George W. Bush. nt |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #6 |
43. It wasn't so long ago that we gave tens of millions amnesty in |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
45. Most our food crops don't come from here. They are imported. |
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enid602 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
7. foreign |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Speaking as someone foreign born.. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 10:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. As a Yankee I was told that by a Texan living in Tennessee |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
49. Im Hispanic and my husband is a permanent resident from England, |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 08:11 AM Response to Reply #49 |
58. If he's a man in our society, he is treated better regardless |
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jimmyflint (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
12. These are people |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. The elite treat us all as peasants. They think we should |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. work for them and blame the immigrants |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. The blame goes both ways when people want jobs. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. I love Dr. Estes |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. She is definitely one of my personal heroines. nt |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
38. Clarissa P. Estes is one of the greats, for sure. nt |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yet an illiterate moron in the Whitehouse is just fine and dandy |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-23-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. He's right. We clearly have all the state legislators we need. nt |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
59. Wow! So they're finally shutting down Focus on the Family? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
67. The question is why do we not "need them?" Plenty of 19th |
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