[robowombat]

How delightful. 'Free trade' and IMF loans to foreign steel producers help devastate a blue collar middle class town and as it crumbles into a welfare slum rife with drug peddling, illegitimacy, and crime an Islamic ghetto rises in its midst. After a while this bit of multicultural America sends some of its sons off to Taliban land to imbibe hatred of Great Satan America at first hand. This is a snapshot of the new America that is taking root throughtout much of the old industrial heartland. At one time our culture was strong enough to pull such communities as the Yemenites into the greater circle of American life. Today in the shadow of shuttered factories and empty mills the reverse is going on as these foreign bodies draw enough sustenance from the larger community to grow and expand their alien prescence. What will cities such as Buffalo look like in another generation-Sarjevo perhaps?

[texasbluebell]

After a while this bit of multicultural America sends some of its sons off to Taliban land to imbibe hatred of Great Satan America at first hand. This is a snapshot of the new America that is taking root throughtout much of the old industrial heartland.

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