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 11/11/19 2:06 PM |
| Douglas Fir | | Land of Pleasant Living | |  |  |
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Immigration reform--what does that mean? Didn't President Reagan enact some kind of reform? What did that lead to? Wasn't the "TPS" (Temporary Protection Status)for Central Americans just get renewed last week? How long has that 'temporary' been? It was in October 1998 when Hurricane Mitchell hit Central America and led to this. If you had children born in 1998, they could have married, had children, and made you a grandparent by now...all on a temporary basis!
Immigration reform to me equals shutting down the border, shutting down all immigration, including the H1B visas given to Chinese, Indian, Muslims to take over jobs that Americans are doing (ask former employees of Disney Corp. who were fired and replaced by these H1B people).
Surveys done in Africa show that 70 percent of many countries there would emigrate to the USA if they could, and they are coming...ask any friends or relatives you have in Maine about African immigrants there 'camping out' and sucking up their rich govt benefits, so much so that now the govt has to cut back the benefits that 'natives' used to get.
No, immigration is the worst mess the US has going on today, the very worst. Best thing is to stop it, just like they did in the 1950s. |
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| 11/7/19 4:00 PM |
| Douglas Fir | | Land of Pleasant Living | | | |
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If the US govt were as involved in car manufacturing as they are in farms, we would still have Studebakers, DeSotos, Packards, Plymouths, and American Ramblers on the road today.
Why is farming considered some sort of 'sacred cow' that cannot face the ups and downs that all businesses have to deal with?
If you say, "Oh, but we must protect our Strategic Resources" then ask about rare earth minerals used in smartphones, computers, etc. They come from China.Coffee? What if tomorrow, all the coffee in the US were limited to the production from Hawaii? It would be priced like fine wine, and our entire economy might lose ten percent of productivity. A friend told me that he once worked in an office where the new boss had read some health articles about how bad caffeine was for you, so he decided to only order 'Brim" the decaf coffee. Work really slowed down, and he had to change his position. Sugar? If the US got rid of its sugar farmers, protected by tarriffs, then it could go on the world market and pay much less. Other countries do a better job growing and producing sugar. |
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| 11/7/19 3:49 PM |
| Douglas Fir | | Land of Pleasant Living | | | |
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Funny, but I thought the trend had started under President Coolidge!
Seriously, though, I think President Trump does not need to spend much time on this issue. Most blacks in the US live in states that are mostly Dems, so getting more of them to vote R will not change that state's overall election. And, since they make up less than 20 percent of the population, any greater percent will be a lesser number. Let's do a little math: 20 percent = one fifth, so that is about 60 million. If voters represent half of that, then you have 30 million. Ten percent would be 3 million. The majority white population, about 200 million, has 100 million voters. Ten percent of them is 10 million, and they are scattered in states that are borderline Dem/Rep. The famous 'independents' are cited as voters who President Trump should be talking to. |
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| 11/7/19 1:44 PM |
| Douglas Fir | | Land of Pleasant Living | | | |
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Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Catholics can say that the Bible is relevant to their lives. Thus, you see this story, from a Christian website, is missing the point.
Better it would be to ask how churches deal with 1 Timothy 5 with respect to how widows are being treated. James even says that this is the rule of real religion, not being able to engage in endless arguments with others. Just ask yourself, when you attend church on Sunday, do you find widows who are traveling around the world for pleasure (not missionaries), eating out, spending fantastic sums on trying to look young, or do you find widows helping the church, doing lots of good works ("washing the feet of the saints")? Is your family supporting the widows in your own family? If not, then the Bible says you are worse than a nonbeliever! |
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| 11/5/19 4:04 PM |
| Douglas Fir | | Land of Pleasant Living | | | |
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The USA seems to be in the control of judges, kinda like the Old Testament days when 'everyone decided what was right in their own eyes.'
As to the previous comments about women, it is obvious that churches have gone along with the culture, so much so that even talking about applying the Biblical Guidelines for Older Christian Woman in 1 Timothy 5 to your own congregation would seem heretical today. So sad. It's sad to see older Christian women delighting in worldly things like travel, fashion, restaurants (again, Paul says, they are dead even if they look alive) when the Bible tells us that they should be dedicating their lives first to their families, and then to good works involving the church ("washing the feet of the saints").
Even the secular world has a saying for this, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" If Christian women only knew how important it is for them to raise their families, we wouldn't have so many problems in our societies. |
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