I went to First Grade in a New York City school. The bathroom was probably about 20 yards away. I don’t remember that walk being a problem,
I deliberately didn’t identify the school district but the $45,000,000 project is in an upper-middle class district in Westchester and the other project, about $60,000,000 is in a working-class community adjoining the first one. My point is why is funding litigation efforts for migrants a good use of state or local money?
THe problem is that the state mandates improvements for which they don’t pay, and squanders state money, really our money, on people who don’t yet live in New York.
You’re suggesting I psyche out the reason you want a certain edit?
No. I want the government to have some mercy on the suckers who pay taxes.
The melting pot was created by people who arrived by paying steerage rates on steamers, and who worked their ***es off when they came. This is a feel-good project to try to save the world.
So am I. But there’s a reason we have nations. To wit, that people with compatible cultures live together.
Show me an instance where mainstream Jews engaged in repeated senseless massacres such as San Bernardino and Orlando. As to the latter I guess you don’t like gays.
Well, that’s nice. Based on your crystalline recollections of your own bladder control from when you were 6, you feel qualified to opine on building codes put in place by people who work with six-year-olds?
I’m tempted to show this post to my kindergarten teacher friends, in case they haven’t met their quota of bitter laughter for the day. You’ll be surprised to learn that, even with bathrooms attached to their classrooms, they still have to clean up children who have accidents on a not-infrequent basis. Having bathrooms down the hall as the only accessible bathrooms is a terrible idea, as anyone who actually has experience with the range of 5-6 year old children can tell you.
Given how off-base you are on this, and how ridiculous your reasons (you don’t remember being 6 and having any problems, therefore it’s not a relevant issue for anyone else), would you take a minute to think more carefully about whether you have the information necessary to opine on other issues, say, immigration?
If you are going to send this, you also really need to proof read it for grammar. It’s good enough as a post to this message board where we rarely let typos get in the way of the exchange of ideas, but for a formal letter the occasional missing word and change of case takes away from its impact.
JBGUSA, was the state planning to pay for the new schools but canceled the funding when promises were made to offer legal help to the immigrants?
Personally, I would be fine with paying a little more in taxes to help your school get rebuilt and I would be fine with paying a little in taxes to protect immigrants from being taken advantage of by government officials, businesses, private citizens, etc.
It’s a logical flaw to believe the state would divert money from protecting immigrants to help build your school if they would just get their priorities right. What would actually happen is the state would use the money it budgeted for legal help or immigrant services someplace else if there were no immigrants being treated with contempt by our Federal government.
Your issue is with regulations and how they are funded. Your letter should reflect that.
You have a separate issue with helping people who are treated like political pawns by the Federal government. You should write a separate letter addressing that topic.
What you shouldn’t do, but are free to do so, is to shit on people who, like your cowardly deserter ancestors, made the long arduous journey to America to make their own productive contribution to my country.
I actually have a pretty good memory as to what was and what wasn’t a problem. I just don’t remember bathrooms being in the problem area. Having bathrooms down the hall as the only accessible bathrooms is a terrible idea, as anyone who actually has experience with the range of 5-6 year old children can tell you.
Since I don’t fit into your comfortable, politically correct world you feel the need to make this personal, I suppose.
I don’t know but the state is chronically pleading poverty, while finding causes such as litigation funding in areas outside their jurisdiction worthy of funding. And banning fracking while Pennsylvania is rolling in the dough. And the latest outrage, shutting down a nuclear power plant, which will impoverish quite a few workers and school districts. Let him take his ideology to a think tank where it belongs.
That makes two of us. But legal funding should be for such urgent matters for existing citizens as preventing evictions from low-income housing in the middle of the winter, not funding some boutique cause such as importing people who won’t likely fit it too well.
That and other very bad choices our rotten to the core state legislature (both Senate and Assembly leaders heading to the poky) make.
I’ll take your learned counsel under advisement. But keep my ancestors out of it. They had good reasons for deserting the army of a tyrant.
What about citizens whose family cannot visit because of the ban? What about citizens whose research is impinged upon because their grad students can’t work because of the ban? What about citizens whose employees are stuck in one of the seven countries after going home on a visit? What about citizens whose lives were saved by interpreters in Iraq? What about citizens who have benefitted under the rigorous defense of the Establishment Clause?
I’ve spent a great deal of time helping immigrants and refugees with conversational English. I’ve spent literally thousands of hours working with immigrants doing scientific research. I’ve spent hundreds of hours writing software with immigrants. They work, they pay taxes, they don’t break the law, they fit in just fine.
Doesn’t feel very good does it? Well, that’s precisely how I feel when you denigrate and question the motives and loyalty of my family because they happen to be recent immigrants from a Muslim country.
I’m sorry you do not feel you’ve benefitted from recent immigrants in the way I have, but you can be sure your tax dollars that contribute to the legal defense of these people affected by this ban are helping your fellow citizens like me, just as my tax dollars have probably helped you without directly benefitting me.
BTW, the concept of earning money so they could send some back to family in the “old country” is much, much older than you think. It happened a lot during the Potato Famine, for example. (And the Irish weren’t exactly greet with open arms, to say the least)
It always saddens me that each generation of immigrants seems to forget their own struggles, and treats the next exactly as they were: nothing but a burden on society, mere leeches wanting to live off of the labor of hard-working Americans. Ever stop and think that if your ancestors had been able to Skype with their families, they would have? That they actually wanted to cut all ties to their family back home? (Remember I mentioned the Potato Famine? Many a family held a wake for those who left, knowing that was probably the last time they’d see that individual.)
I’m proud to live in Pittsburgh, where the mayor has openly stated his intention to continue to welcome anyone who wishes to come here, who has actually joined those protesting at the local airport. Pittsburgh has always been a friendly, welcoming community, and I’m happy to call it my home.
What does political correctness have to do with anything he just said? You said something from a position of ignorance. He corrected it. Does that somehow fall under the ever-growing banner of “political correctness”? Newsflash: just because you are politically incorrect doesn’t make you factually correct.
“Politically correct” is an intellectually lazy copout, and you should be embarrassed that you went there. It has nothing to do with political correctness, and everything to do with my discomfort with people who feel free to opine on issues prior to educating themselves about the issues.
Your ignorance about childhood development, and your ignorance about immigration dynamics, are of a piece. Neither is shameful in itself, but your willingness to spout off about issues related to both without educating yourself in advance is something you should work on.