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Politics : Why should I (conservative) stay in the Republican Party? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (141)	2/15/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: HighTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 246

I don't have any problem with folks from other countries wanting to come legally to the US. What I do have a problem with is what the liberals have created: these people think once they get here, they have a right to all the benefits of the US. If people are not willing to work or to start working at the bottom rung, they should not expect handouts!! This is more liberalthink: Fat and ugly feminists try to convince lady folks to have abortions. They say: keep the government out of bedrooms; keep the government out of a woman's choice to have an abortion. But they are the first people who come to the guvment wanting a handout to pay for it. I thought the guvment should stay out of all aspects of the woman's choice. Her choice? OK, let her pay for it, not me! HiTech

To: Yogizuna who wrote (141)	2/16/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 246

I don't think our immigration policy is "open door". At least not the one that you and I know of. The party became the majority in Congress and low and behold all the legal immigrants lose all the benefits even though they continue to pay income taxes and social security. Didn't Americans decide to declare independence because of "taxation without representation"? There have been numerous studies to show that in general new immigrants put into the system much more than they take out. We always have a net gain in their coming here. I raised many questions inside the party before deciding to leave because the party did not give me adequate answers. (My key question was to allow legal immigrants to not pay social securities because they don't have benefits.) Regarding environmental impacts, isn't it a long running issue against immigrants? Was it an issue a century ago? 50 years ago? Have this country become better and better regardless of our immigrants? Some might even argue we are becoming better because of our continuing acceptance of new comers. I don't think we've exhausted our capacity for more people here. We have probably one of the lowest population density. I suspect that if your family came here within the last 100 years, your ancestors might have heard arguments along the environmental line against them. I continue to hope that we will never slam the door shut to new comers. -Al