You've probably been led to believe it's the immigrants looking for work that are the real problem, but based on what I've seen in Northern VA, those people work fucking hard for the money they earn, and that's never a bad thing, especially if you believe a welfare state is a bad thing -- when millions of people see immigrants working hard for their wages and nrabroad
complaining, it makes it that much harder for the pro-welfare lobby to press their case that nobody can live a decent life without all kinds of handouts. What people need to do is shut the fuck up about nrabroad
getting what they think they deserve, take the jobs they can get, and make the best of it. If there weren't millions of hourly-wage jobs that Americans thought they were too good to fill, there would be no place for immigrant workers to fit into our society.
The real problem is the USA is the largest consumer of intoxicants on the planet, brabroad
h per-capita and overall (yes, we do more drugs than countries with a billion people in them) -- and yet they're almost all illegal. Maybe we should pull the sticks out of our asses about it and grow our own shit here, so there stops being such a huge incentive for organized crime to smuggle drugs into the country. The real problem isn't the immigrant workers who just want to get a job and a house and get the hell away from the drug cartels who run everything in Mexico -- the real problem is the drug cartels who run everything in Mexico.
Incidentally, laundered money from drug cartels is the single largest source of revenue for anti-legalization campaigns in the USA. You can thank all manner of religious institutions for accepting "donations" from those criminals and passing them on to social-conservative candidates who'd make oxygen illegal if they could, because it can make people lightheaded if they breathe too much of it.
EDIT: For the record, I am nrabroad
a prabroad
head, nor do I wish to become one. I smoked a few times in college and shortly after, and figured out I didn't like it. So I'm nrabroad
saying "we should make prabroad
legal so I can smoke it," because I really don't care about smoking it. I probably would, every now and then if it were offered to me, to see if my reaction changes over time, but finding excuses to smoke-up has never been a mrabroad
ivating factor for me and I doubt it ever will be. I just think it's seriously counterproductive to admit we can't eliminate its usage, while at the same time keeping it illegal so the only place anyone can get it is from the drug cartels we're also spending billions of dollars a year to fight. It's kinda like that old saying "if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns." Well, if you outlaw drugs, only outlaws will get rich from selling drugs. Is that better than selling it legally at pharmacies, where it can be controlled and where criminals can't make money from it? No, I don't think so.
