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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111197)	2/8/2008 7:07:11 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, Like I said, I don't think rounding people up and putting them in concentration camps without a good reason was such a good idea, but these days we aren't even allowed to use common sense because of political correctness. Current thinking is so warped by idealism, it's preposterous. The article you couldn't bring up was about leprosy. They have traced an outburst of leprosy and TB in one town in the US to a specific group of legal immigrants whose country has the highest leprosy rates in the world. There's a shock. If I had to make an odds line on someone in the US catching leprosy because of that it would have been 1-9. When my grandparents came to Ellis Island, you were tested in a wide variety of ways (both physically and mentally). In addition, they looked for potential job skills. If you didn't meet some very strict standards you were sent back on the same boat. Was it the most compassionate policy? Obviously not. But it recognized that immigrants from poor countries were more likely to carry contagious diseases or have other shortcomings that would make it impossible for them to take care of themselves. So to protect the interests of Americans (health wise, financially, and safety wise) they were willing to make tough decisions and do what was best for America. They took in the people that might contribute positively and sent the rest home. Would it be nice if we had the resources to take care of the whole world, cure their diseases, educate them, give them jobs they could live on, take care of their mental health and other disabilities etc....? Of course it would! But we can't. That doesn't stop us from opening the "legal" and illegal door to potential terrorists from hostile middle eastern countries, to people with various sexually transmitted and other diseases that we know are going to pass them to Americans, the unemployable, the mentally ill, etc..... Early in the last century, the liberals were to the right of today's conservatives. They actually made some sense! They did not live in an idealistic fantasy world governed by political correctness and a fear of being attacked for making tough decisions that put the needs and welfare of Americans over left wing daydreams. I think Roosevelt did a lot of really stupid and questionable things (including lying his ass off and doing other things to get us into a war he felt sure was in the best long term interests of the country and world - which he was correct to do), but I think he would probably be appalled at the country right now.