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That poem shouldn’t even be there. It’s a post-facto add-on by Communists.
Should a Poem on a 150 year old statue be the basis for our Modern Immigration Policy?
An inconvenient little factoid. The “Statue of Liberty” was originally intended to be a gift to Egypt to place at the Suez Canal. The Egyptians didn’t want it. IOW, it was “regifted”. How one ascribes any meaning to that statue after knowing this is just kind of pathetic.
Once again, Daniel Greenfield gives us a whole new way of looking at things, and exposes the truth which has been obscured for years.
Thank you for the ping, Louis. Although I don’t always comment, I always read the articles.
Sometimes overlooked is a problem that is recognized in theoretical economics — the law of diminishing returns. Even if new arrivals were as productive as the native born, loved our founding fathers, and consumed no more welfare than the native born, you cannot indefinitely admit people to a land without decreasing the productivity and well- being of the people who are already there. The earlier new arrivals won’t care because they’ll still be better-off than they were in their old countries, but the ones who are already there will gradually begin to notice the difference — in the form of rising land prices, declining wages, clogged highways, crowded schools, etc.
So, liberals are lying once again; the poem was never a proclamation to destroy our country? I suspected that all - but it's nice to have facts backing up feelings.
White liberal elites (in a creepy way) love the poor - as pets - like they treat blacks - imagining they're protectors who keep them from being put back in chains... And for people to look down on -- like (being able to smell the people in Walmart)...
Epstein received 2 twelve year old sisters for a birthday gift - with the bonus they were so poor their parents wouldn't be able to protect them. He used them for rape - which is another reason white liberal 'elites' love broken homes, fatherless homes and 'the poor'... to abuse them.
Decades of liberal/progressive efforts to censor, erase and deny the underlying ideas of liberty upon which the U. S. Constitution was framed have had consequences.
Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.
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America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.
Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.
This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of individual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.
Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5