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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (25015)8/28/2001 3:40:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I think we are deep into facetiousness here, aren't we? :-)

I envisioned all the small farmers who have been bought out
going for the land.
Do you mean American or white African farmers? THe white African farmers might go back. American farmers go there? Not many, I would think.

And sun cities sprouting up all over the place for retirees looking for warm climates and affordable homes.
There are still plenty of places here in the USA to go to for a warm sunny retirement. And the water is safe, the food is safe, the medical care is good, the cops and bureaucrats are (mostly) not corrupt, AIDS doesn't surround you, and the natives don't kill you because you're American.

And flocks of missionaries. Biologists and geologists. ..... Adventurers.
Those people go there now. What few there are.

Urban parents looking for a nice place to raise kids.
?????. See "here are still plenty of places here in the USA ..." above.

Unemployed and underemployed people.
Go from a polace with 5% unemployment to one with 85% unemployment?

Illegal aliens.
They come here, not to Africa.

People who buy lottery tickets.
Thee's no accounting for lunacy.

I was expecting to get arguments on morality, not practicality.
Not from me. You'll have to find a leftist to argue the morality of this sort of thing.

I guess we've lost whatever expansionist urges we might once have had.
I suspect that those people with "expansionist urges" in our past had dim prospects where they were and figured they might as well move west and roll the dice.
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