Post by ronturner on Oct 17, 2013 15:51:10 GMT 1
There is an underclass in the USA, mostly made up of immigrants and most of those illegal. And yet, this is tolerated. How else can these people get access to public services, housing. and the most basic healthcare, especially maternity care?
The truth is that these people are welcomed with open arms to provide farmers and industrialists with very cheap labour, often under near Dickensian conditions. You think I am exaggerating? Think again.
This underclass has always been there but it really accelerated under G.W Bush. On the one hand preaching the Republican line about immigration and on the other hand keeping his mates in business happy. Immediately before the first election of Obama, Bush rushed to grant citizenship and a vote to as many Hispanics as possible. Those who had managed to get green cards. What a nice man from a nice party! There has been no deceleration under Obama. The school in which my daughter teaches is more than 60% non English speakers for each year of new starters.
(By the way in Republican Florida, like all other teachers her salary, which stayed static for 4 years and decreased by 3.5% in 2013, in 2014 will be linked to school performance against a national norm, with no allowance given for ethnic origin or tongue of the children. A part of her assessment will be linked to the opinions of the children she teaches and a part linked to the views of parents of whom only 18 out of 850 families ever bother to turn up for meetings. Is it any wonder that one of the best teachers, winner of national teaching awards, is looking to bail out of the system?)
So here we are in a country where the Republican party has turned a blind eye to immigration, but at the last election for Obama's second term, the Republicans candidate announced a key pledge, to send home all the illegals. Here we have a new Hispanic electorate expected to vote to send home, their parents and their grandparents. How stupid and what folly. Little wonder that Obama won so convincingly.
I have worked in the USA, toured there extensively and have family there. I even considered going to live there permanently at one stage. It is a great country populated by, mostly, really nice, kind people. There is however, amongst some, a culture of greed and this manifests itself, in my opinion, in the present Republican party which is far from the party of Reagan and his predecessors who were focussed on delivering prosperity and freedom for Americans rather than just a few favoured ones.
The truth is that these people are welcomed with open arms to provide farmers and industrialists with very cheap labour, often under near Dickensian conditions. You think I am exaggerating? Think again.
This underclass has always been there but it really accelerated under G.W Bush. On the one hand preaching the Republican line about immigration and on the other hand keeping his mates in business happy. Immediately before the first election of Obama, Bush rushed to grant citizenship and a vote to as many Hispanics as possible. Those who had managed to get green cards. What a nice man from a nice party! There has been no deceleration under Obama. The school in which my daughter teaches is more than 60% non English speakers for each year of new starters.
(By the way in Republican Florida, like all other teachers her salary, which stayed static for 4 years and decreased by 3.5% in 2013, in 2014 will be linked to school performance against a national norm, with no allowance given for ethnic origin or tongue of the children. A part of her assessment will be linked to the opinions of the children she teaches and a part linked to the views of parents of whom only 18 out of 850 families ever bother to turn up for meetings. Is it any wonder that one of the best teachers, winner of national teaching awards, is looking to bail out of the system?)
So here we are in a country where the Republican party has turned a blind eye to immigration, but at the last election for Obama's second term, the Republicans candidate announced a key pledge, to send home all the illegals. Here we have a new Hispanic electorate expected to vote to send home, their parents and their grandparents. How stupid and what folly. Little wonder that Obama won so convincingly.
I have worked in the USA, toured there extensively and have family there. I even considered going to live there permanently at one stage. It is a great country populated by, mostly, really nice, kind people. There is however, amongst some, a culture of greed and this manifests itself, in my opinion, in the present Republican party which is far from the party of Reagan and his predecessors who were focussed on delivering prosperity and freedom for Americans rather than just a few favoured ones.