[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Windguy

Well, it’s sad that that is the only conclusion you can draw. It’s sad that you don’t see how desperate people can be just for a chance at mere survival.

Our subsidized food industry has destroyed the economies of third-world countries. People there used to be able to make an adequate, but hardly luxurious, living as subsistence farmers. Now it costs them more to buy what they need to grow their own crops than it does to buy food from the industrial farmers of the US. But, there are few jobs there to earn the money to buy even the cheap food, so they come to the US out of desperation.

It’s sad that you don’t see how desperate people can be to escape the violence of the cartels that supply Americans with drugs.

It’s sad that you don’t see how the US’s desire for favorable trade or suppression of communism results in violence when we support ruthless dictators. “He may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.”

It’s sad how you and many Americans don’t see that despite the despicable way we treat people who come here because they have no other choice if they just want to survive that it’s not nearly as bad as what they would face at home. You see them as “rapists and thieves,” but in reality, most are hard-working people who love their families. Yes, I’m sure some of them are “rapists and thieves,” but just like it is for us, such are the exception and not the rule. As some of us are “rapists and thieves,” how would you like people in other countries to treat all of us they way we treat the tragically desperate people who come here because they see the US as their only hope for survival?

It's sad that you could not detect the sarcasm dripping from that sentence, even after it has been explained several times in this thread.