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To: Doughboy who wrote (36980)	8/5/2005 1:14:13 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 306849

Doughboy, I could have been an illegal. Not being so because I tend to be too law abiding for my own good. I would have been today much better off I had been an illegal to the US in the late 80's and had cash in on the last 15 years. I had left Brazil and was in Nigeria. I had about USD50K to take to the US as an illegal. I had an American friend (from Chico, Ca!!!) who asked: Why don't you go to the US and get a job there? I didn't like the idea of being illegal (my mother gave a bad edcuation. She told me is better to be honest!!!) and then I never thought about it seriously. Those USD50K ended up piled up in Curitiba as real estate. I was, then, hellbent on learning computers' networks. I thought: this is ging to generate a huge amount of money and CA is the place to be: I thought about computers equipped with ISDN interfaces connected to the telefone line socket interchnagin files files with other computers and longer using floppies... I probably would have been a millionaire duing the tech boom!!!

To: Doughboy who wrote (36980)	8/5/2005 6:24:21 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I already post a link from palm beach how illegals with TB have reintroduced it in an area it was killed and causing the destruction of livelihood of many people now - if that person who brought it has 2 kids that become PHD's - does that make up for the loss to potential thousands of people that suffer from the sickness they otherwise would not have caught - your grandfather should be proud of his deception. My grandfather also came here from mexico and fought in the war - there are legal and illegal ways. Would you have me believe that your personal experience is the average? Or the exception to the average? We can all pick and choose certain histories of certain individuals to further an agenda - but from the aggregate level society building requires a more discerning eye no? I can appreciate wanting a better life, I do too. I may have even done the same thing your grandfather did. Because the ayn rand types stopped having babies I have agreed we need immigration if we want to stay competitive in the world, but some people, like those lazy french who don't work so hard or maybe those swiss don't understand this I think - life is too short to be workaholic all the time no? Perhaps letting the torch of productivity pass to another nation and taking it easy for awhile and not causing social uproar is not such a bad thing eh? I support blocking people like your grandfather that bring in TB - whatever benefit you may feel it was worth, the potential for harm created too much risk. Now if you have invented cheap cure for TB to fix what your grandfather risked - perhaps I could be more lenient - but you and your fellow PHD buddies didn't go into bio science and do that did you? The degrees of your buddies - can you elaborate in what fields they are in? More liberal arts professors and less bio science doesn't seem to be the right direction to me. I hope to be surprised.

To: Doughboy who wrote (36980)	8/5/2005 11:13:01 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Doughboy, a while back you asked me about the state of the DC rental market, and I had to plead ignorance. Found a few snips of info in a local paper recently on the DC rental price scene, but can't post the whole story due to inability to find it on the paper's website. Story (Aug. 2 Examiner Newspaper) said, among other things..... <<Spurred by the District's hot housing market--average home prices have doubled in the last five years--city rents have shot up more dramatically as the supply of rentals drops. Between 2001 and 2003 alone, the median rent of two-bedroom residences in the District rose 84 percent. City officials have not monitored one major trend that could reduce the availability of rental housing: condominium conversions. Driven by low interest rates, conversions of rentals into condos may have taken thousands of units off the market, leaving their renters to find new homes. The District's Dept of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which handles those permits, began adding up the totals only after The Examiner newspaper asked. So far hundreds of buildings--115 in 2003, 122 in 2004 and more than 93 to date this year--have been converted. There is no word yet as to how many actual apartments were involved....>> [There's more to the story, but most of it concerned how Maryland's Prince Georges County is claiming that these displaced DC residents are moving into their county, often using federal rent vouchers, and may be shifting poverty and social problems to the county. Some experts disagree, saying the number of DC emigrants to PG County is small. PG County claims about 500 people move into the county per year on Section 8 vouchers, with about 300 coming from DC.