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Originally Posted by R2D2
It's similar with Australia. The aborigines where here before the Europeans and had no concept of private property ownership. The land was considered to belong to everyone until the Europeans arrived and parcelled everything off..
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Native American's were devided in to many different tribes and they did fight over land and such to so they really weren't much different then my ancestors, they were of course desimated by diseases brought by the settlers and the superior arms.
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Originally Posted by R2D2
There was nothing they could do. Aborigines were not even considered to be human beings until 1967. Until then, they were listed in the census under "Flowers and Fauna".
As someone who did an Economics degree I have a positive view of immigration. Immigrants increase the tax base in countries were fertility is declining and the population is aging. They also bring their savings to their host countries, which they spend, resulting in creation of jobs. They also tend to take jobs that no one wants or which cannot be filled. They spend their wages, which further increases jobs. It's not like every country has a fixed number of jobs that stays the same whatever happens.
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You seem to think that we should condone (sp?) people breaking our laws to get here. Sorry but no thanks. We are NOT against leagal immigration. Perhaps if our 'esteemed' (extreme sarcasm) lawmakers would show us some enforcement for a few years we'd agreed to let them up leagel immigration without making so much noise. Actually the so called 'immigration reform' might have been snuck through all in one piece of the Mexicans had not taken to the streets waving the Mexican flag....nothing like showing your contempt for the country you supposedly want to be a part of. As it is, right now our 'esteemed' leaders (said with extreme sarcasm) are sneaking through a bill to 'leagalize" (give green cards to) some farm workers here illegally to 'releive' the labor shortage in that area. Unfortunately once they get thier green card they'll move on to much better paying jobs, then we'll need more to do those jobs that even MExicans once legal won't do. (time for some areas of farming to use some ingenuity and mechanize I think)