You ever hate yourself?

[strocube]

I feel like a pice of shit.
I have come to be irrationally annoyed by the people I interpret for. I hold them in total and utter contempt, and I expect them to say the most stupid and unintelligent things possible; they almost always do.
I do my best to contain my disdain, but it shows in lots of little ways. I roll my eyes, I will not look people in the eyes, I sigh, everything about me screams €œWHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?€
The thing is, I am not a law and order douche bag. I know the prison industrial complex functions the way that it does because of the built-in structural racism and profit motive inherent in the system. I€™ve researched and written about this on more than one occasion. I realize that these people are the fodder on which the system runs. They are exploited, profiled, thrown in jails and prison all in the interest of keeping the the system running and the profits flowing to the investment class.
I also know that part of the reason they are here is because of NAFTA, the ravages of market capitalism and exploitation in Mexico that is even worse than what they face here.
Still, I do not want €œthem€ here. My reasoning for this is that an influx of tens of millions of illiterate poor people with, what I consider irresponsible breeding habits, is not good for anyone. I sound like a fucking redneck, nazi prick. I thought I was a liberal. I am a liberal, it€™s just that after working in the system for ten years and seeing the impact of these people on where I live, I€™ve come to think that we would all be better off if they left, or were deported.
I used to feel really bad for them, to the point where it was affecting me personally, now I just want them gone, and I feel really bad about that--fuck!
I need to find other work.

[s69]

One thing 2 say ( i went out to conquer , yet i came back conquered ...) that goes to all who think they r mighty.we all live in this same place (earth) and we explain it as we r taught! Yet where ever we come from we cannot dictate believes upon each other ...!

[Stogie]

(strocube @ Aug. 06 2009,07:40) I€™ve come to think that we would all be better off if they left, or were deported...

Welcome to my world!

Foreigners are a useless drain on society. Not to mention a criminal element we could well do without.

But the west won't get it until their are 10 billion starving people fighting over a cup of rice in Europe and by then it'll be too late.

Globalization is just a way of making everyone poor instead of just most people.

[PigDogg]

(strocube @ Aug. 05 2009,16:40) I need to find other work.

Sounds like burnout. Unless you're extremely overpaid, or unless there just aren't jobs abailable in this depression, it's time to move on bro.

[BlueBallz]

This is hilarious!! you admit it you are probably much more conservative than you would ahve ever thought. You rant and rave about racism, yet you call the folks "THEM". Ooooooh racist!! Dont think so actually but you amke it sound like the cops rove the ghettos, plucking people out of their homes while they are watching Jerry Spriger and chuck them in the joint!!!!!

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!

[allstar88]

quit your job and get out

[geezer]

"If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not Conservative by 40, you have no brain"

Winston Churchill

Try not to take your work home with you. It will always lead to stress. It's going to be waiting there for you in the morning anyway and worrying about it won't help anyone.

[strocube]

(BlueBallz @ Aug. 06 2009,14:16) This is hilarious!!  you admit it you are probably much more conservative than you would ahve ever thought.  You rant and rave about racism, yet you call the folks "THEM".  Ooooooh racist!!  Dont think so actually but you amke it sound like the cops rove the ghettos, plucking people out of their homes while they are watching Jerry Spriger and chuck them in the joint!!!!!

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!

I remain a socialist, that doesn't mean I'm blind to the effects of the mostly unchecked immigration of an underclass into where I live.

Also, I'm not blind to the irony that I myself am an immigrant to this country. Although, My family came form a different country, and from a different strata of society, still . . .

I'm doing my best to get out. I'm finishing up course-work on a master's. Hopefully, when I'm done I'll be able to find something else to do.

I've also got a few other projects in the works that may lead to me getting the fuck out, but it takes time, especially in this economy.

La lucha continua. (The struggle continues.)

[manarak]

Foreigners are a useless drain on society.

says the farang in Thailand...

Not to mention a criminal element we could well do without.

eh? yes.


For my part, I advocate giving visas to everybody that applies and doesn't raise a criminal red flag.
- everyone can get a visa, regardless of origin, but there will be an inquiry with local authorities (for example criminal record)
- no authorization required to stay long time
- no special authorization needed to work legally
- heavily guarded borders
- foreigner database (with DNA samples)
- compulsory address registration for foreigners
- no free social welfare for foreigners (but they are free to pay private insurances for health, retirement plans, and against loss of their job)
- "real" criminals would be deported and not given re-entry permit

[petesie]

Unfortunately these "common sense" applications are oft displayed as bigotted and racist by others who absolutely refuse to acknowledge the harm unchecked immigration is doing to western economies who ultimately will help sustain others...........

[robbo]

(manarak @ Aug. 06 2009,23:30)

Foreigners are a useless drain on society.

says the farang in Thailand...

Not to mention a criminal element we could well do without.

eh? yes.


For my part, I advocate giving visas to everybody that applies and doesn't raise a criminal red flag.
- everyone can get a visa, regardless of origin, but there will be an inquiry with local authorities (for example criminal record)
- no authorization required to stay long time
- no special authorization needed to work legally
- heavily guarded borders
- foreigner database (with DNA samples)
- compulsory address registration for foreigners
- no free social welfare for foreigners (but they are free to pay private insurances for health, retirement plans, and against loss of their job)
- "real" criminals would be deported and not given re-entry permit

yes stogie caught by the bollocks on this one............fickin foreigners....just who do they think they are? why dont they just go home!

[blonde_havoc]

What I dislike is the disgusting pandering by both major political parties to the large hispanic voting blocks, when neither party does much of anything to help them out, and probably truly want them out of the country anyway. Illegal immigration is a horrible drain on society, but neither the Dummycrats or the Republican'ts are gonna fix it any time soon because they'd rather pander to the voters.

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, many of my friends were actually illegals. I have nothing against them when they're doing the best they can to survive and honestly working. But one thing that always pissed me off about the illegal immigrants is how they're always saying how great either Mexico or the Philippines are. Yeah they're the greatest fucking country ever! The US sucks in comparison! Well if they're so fucking great then why are you here? It makes NO sense to me.

Oh, and an honest discussion of illegal immigration in the US inevitably turns into "You're a racist" so there's no winning on the discussion.

[Torurot]

This is bullshit. In return the "first" world has no worries about fucking up and exploiting the resources of many non first world countries. "We" complain about arcane Thai immigration regs, but in return do we let Thais' have unlimited access to our countries?. Do we Fck! "Corporations" & "Multinationals have more "rights" in many places than real people.

USA is ALWAYS complaining about immigrants, an ENTIRE nation foundered on them. "Illegal" Immigrants WHO PAY TAXES rarely get back what they pay. America counts on the many smart "illegal" first world immigrants at the high end. All I'm saying is it's not all so "one sided".

[Tomcat]

(strocube @ Aug. 06 2009,07:40) an influx of tens of millions of illiterate poor people with, what I consider irresponsible breeding habits, is not good for anyone.

I agree with you on that   Parts of London , where i live , is like Bangladesh. The people here are not remotely western and yet im surrounded .

Lets face it the West has gone bonkers and whatever ones Philosophical position on life from an Armchair perspective , soon changes when rubbing up against the real world...

I admire your honesty

[strocube]

(Torurot @ Aug. 07 2009,15:44) This is bullshit.  In return the "first" world has no worries about fucking up and exploiting the resources of many non first world countries.  "We" complain about arcane Thai immigration regs, but in return do we let Thais' have unlimited access to our countries?. Do we Fck!  "Corporations" & "Multinationals have more "rights" in many places than real people.

USA is ALWAYS complaining about immigrants, an ENTIRE nation foundered on them.  "Illegal" Immigrants WHO PAY TAXES rarely get back what they pay.  America counts on the many smart "illegal" first world immigrants at the high end.  All I'm saying is it's not all so "one sided".

I agree with you, Torurot. A major factor here is that once relatively stable economies and societies have been effectively wiped out by large transnational corporations that get government subsidies. A good example of that is what happened to the corn industry in Mexico when that country was forced to accept subsidized corn form the U.S. under NAFTA--the industry tanked, leaving hundreds of thousands of poor Mexican farmers/peasants with nothing, thereby adding more pressure for them to go north, into the U.S.
I understand that these are people just trying to survive the best they can. The problem is that the rest of us end up paying--big time for the profits of the transnationals. We are left to deal with the consequences of unchecked immigration.
I suspect that there has been a deliberate effort on the part of the ruling class, capitalists, huge corporations, government elites, whatever you wanna call them, to turn the U.S into a third world country. Just look around.
All these social consequences that we are forced to deal with are a direct result of people being duped into worshiping the fucking "free market." It's totally fucked up.
These fuckers scream "socialism" to scare the rubes Kansas when a public healthcare plan is proposed, but are more than willing to take trillions in government $ after they've effectively looted the global economy. Then there is the military. . . the U.S. spends more on so called "defense" than the rest of the world combined. I will not rattle off the list of abuses there, it's all too familiar to anyone whose even bothered to have look. That's all money that could be spent on all kinds of thing to improve the lives of regular people, both here and abroad.
My point is, I understand that there are large powerful forces at play here driving immigration, that immigrants themselves are just trying to survive, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it, or be blind to what I see around me.