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> "Words can't express how sad I feel about people who write and believe in such a logic. Where is our humanity gone?" The correct term is illegal aliens. I d
by davidf18 10y ago
> "Words can't express how sad I feel about people who write and believe in such a logic. Where is our humanity gone?"
The correct term is illegal aliens. I didn't create the term, but I do use the language correctly.
My humanity is for those poor people who live in the US who don't get enough funding as it is and who lose out on the funding because of illegal aliens. That is where my humanity is. My question to you is where is your humanity for the poor Americans, many who don't have nearly the IQ of readers of HN and who are losing their jobs and not getting enough support.
> "The poor living legally in your country ARE NOT competing for resources with "illegal aliens" you call them (I find it absurd to even consider a person, a HUMAN BEING, to be illegal, but that's a different topic). Your country has way more resources available than those dedicated to eradicating poverty."
That is an incorrect statement. There is only so much tax money and much of that money is used for funding K-12 education, university education, healthcare, etc. etc. for illegal aliens instead of better funding the poor.
- mikeyouse 10y agoThe vast majority of children of immigrants in public schools are US citizens by virtue of being born in the US. This argument about spending money on educating illegal immigrants is pretty facile.
- jimmywanger 10y ago> This argument about spending money on educating illegal immigrants is pretty facile. That is one aspect of what the government spends money on. What about roads, health care, utilities, and the other things the OP mentions?
- eon1 10y ago>Much of that money is used for funding..illegal aliens Er, maybe, but far, far more is used on maintaining massive military superiority[0][1][2][3].. if it's tax dollars you're worried about, you ought to have far bigger concerns than "illegals". [0] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... [1] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spending-vs-world/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spe... [2] http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
- jimmywanger 10y agoTypical example of "Whataboutism" [0] The point here is not government spending priorities, but spending efficiently and justly in the fund distribution we have now. In other words, we do spend money on illegal aliens, we spend more money on other things, but we should not be spending any money on illegal immigrants, no matter what else we're spending money on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- 8note 10y agoThat's why we always use bit shifts for division. it doesn't matter if we're using an exponential algorithm instead of a linear one: the thing we should care most about is how fast that division is.