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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (343603)	7/18/2007 5:23:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

Z, > Haven't we been fretting about Middle Eastern immigration to Europe? Yet European health care systems are OK. That's a rather ignorant statement. There are a TON of problems with people migrating to Europe, and it all has to do with their socialism. Think the riots in France were just about rich vs. poor? And have past US riots been about capitalism? By necessity, they have to be more vigorous in enforcing their immigration laws than America, which they usually are. But the problems remain because you can never eradicate illegal immigration without heavy-handed law enforcement tactics. Whoa! Most of the immigration into Europe wasn't illegal......many had colonies like France and Algeria where the colonists were made citizens and allowed to emigrate to the mother country. With countries like Sweden and Germany, they needed the immigrants to bolster their labor forces when their economies were booming two decades ago and so invited them to emigrate.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (343603)	7/18/2007 8:03:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576705

Big Spending for, Well, Poverty By Silla Brush Tue Jul 17, 3:51 PM ET One Vote '08, the national campaign to make poverty a campaign issue in the 2008 presidential election, will spend $30 million in the four earliest primary and caucus states: Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the effort, begun with the help of U2's Bono, a $22 million grant. Campaign organizers say that amount is the "minimum" for the campaign, making it surely one of the biggest issue campaigns thus far announced for the 2008 election cycle. Kimberly Cadena, a campaign spokeswoman, says the issues of global health and poverty resonate with voters, in part because many people now consider them issues of national security. Faith-based communities also respond to these issues. The antipoverty campaign has met with all of the presidential candidates, she said, and has met with some of them several times. The campaign isn't planning to endorse a candidate. The focus is on the early primary states at the moment, but "our efforts will expand after January," Cadena says. The initiative coincides with the week-long effort by candidate John Edwards to highlight the problems of America's poor.