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PlasticPole   
13 Dec 2010
News / 'Bored' Poles build 31ft tall Frosty [16]

That is awesome. I wish we had enough snow for that here. I would like to build a mountainous snowman in my front yard!
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

I meant Indians who are not Pakistani Jihadists or PJ sympathisizers.

Exactly REFUGEE not economic migrant! When US needed workers we invited them and even gave the land if they're willing to relocate.

I disagree with "giving people land" but people coming over to find work and a life, I have no problem with that. It's the American way! We cannot forgo our tradition of letting people move here. It's the way of life here. We are a nation of immigrants, like it or not. That will never change.

We have always allowed the poor into our country. These poor people are the ones who worked and built America up. They have made our country the strong place that it is!
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

Dear God people with your mindset scare me, full of utopian gaga and no practical and realistic solutions...

It's not communism, it's what America was founded on. We were a refuge for people from all over the world. That's our history. Even "native" Americans migrated here from Asia and Europe. If Chinese and Indians want to migrate here, we have the largest state in the country still pretty much population free - Alaska. They can live there. Alaska would get more representation in congress out of it.

I disagree with letting in terrorists but why not let in Mexicans and Canadians? They are our closest neighbors. Why is it we won't let our close neighbors in?

I am not against letting in people from China and India so long as they aren't terrorists.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

Don't be fooled by the "poor anybody" mantra. There are rich and poor in every country.

1st offense 1 month in prison plus a large fine, second offense 5 years in prison that can be waived by your embassy paying a $1,000,000 fine.

That isn't the American way and will only make us weaker.

What's going on now is unacceptable.

Which is why we should just let them in. We can't keep them out unless we want to turn our backs on our past.

You mentioned 2 categories of immigrants but if only 10% of the illegals commit a series crime than who's paying for it?

We might need to do something to cut the costs, but not keep people out. The answer is to make it more cost efficient, not close the doors and put up walls!

What about the thieves, the gang hoodlums, the drug smugglers and the dealers, the maffia hire-to-kill murderers and the rapists?

Deport them, cut funding for prisons. Why should criminals live like the middle class while they are in jail?

Illegal immigration hurts this country even if most of the immigrants are "honest and hardworking" people as you describe it.

It doesn't hurt it any more than it has always hurt it and that isn't much considering America has done pretty well. We've had some rough times but all and all nothing we haven't overcome.

Apples and oranges PP. Ellis island was for LEGAL aliens.

It's not really apples and oranges. These people weren't perfect. They just wanted a better life in America the same as the people today.

I know PP, but still the law will never see those people as "honest" citizens.

What if we had the same criteria all along as people are calling for now. Not nearly as many people would be in the US and we might not be here because our grandparents or great grandparents wouldn't be allowed in. Maybe they just weren't honest enough or had enough money to qualify? They would have been denied before ever leaving their country of orgin.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

I understand your point but still I'm not sure about calling someone "honest" if the person lives here illegally. Somehow, the words "illegal" and "honest" don't sound right when used in the same context. (to me anyway)

Okay, lets say the person has always been considered good and nice, decent, caring, giving, a hard worker and the only thing they ever did wrong was cross a border into the US or overstayed a Visa. Why should the US who has a strong immigration history and is known around the world as the land of opportunity and dreams be so harsh and unforgiving because people want so badly to live here? I can understand wanting the criminals out but should we be so harsh on people who just want a better life like our ancestors wanted? And not all ancestors from Europe came here legally as well. There were plenty of stowaways.

True, Convex, the govt has made it too expensive and complicated for immigrants these days.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

Are you actually an American citizen already?

Yes, I was born here! I am a full fledged citizen! I see illegals catagorized into two groups. One is the criminals who make up the gangs, the drug dealers, etc. The other's the honest people who come here to work and buy a nice house. My point is, we have never as a nation punished the honest people who come here to work and buy a nice house. What kind of country will we be if we do that? Shouldn't we honor our heritage of letting people come here who just want a better life. Just about everyone here has an ancestor who came here to have a better life. Some people even stowed away on ships, more than you realize. Some might even be ancestors of some of the Americans posting here. Not everyone who came over on the ships was a legal immigrant. Were they punished for attempting? Should they have been? This is America, after all.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

he got his SS card at some point, worked like any other american, and when his visa was up, he just continued to work using the same SS #.

Yeah, how did he get a social security number with just a student visa? Don't you have to be a citizen first? Maybe you can get one with a work visa? I don't know...

As far as our system needing improvement, the US has never been that strict about immigration. In fact, this is as strict as we've been...the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. It's not in the USA's nature to punish severely people who just want to come here. That's never been part of our national character. Should we make it a part of our heritage or foster the dreams of people looking for a better life?
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

they don't seem to mind having the same SS# pay in for a while..which plays into the second part:

Sometimes the person building the fake identity for the illegal will find obituaries of young people or infants, as morbid as it sounds, keeping up with ones who have died and using them later for illegals who will pay money to have new identities. Some shady credit repair organizations have done the same thing. This way they are part of the system, can get tax returns and social security later. If someone did some researching, they would be easy to bust, though.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

...they don't get tax refunds or social security, which would mean that those immigrants that do work under a fake SS# are net contributors in the US fiscally

I thought they would get social security and tax returns under their assumed identity which might be someone's actual social security number. They would live under that assumes name in the US for the rest of their lives. Unless the documents aren't even remotely real, which would be easy to bust if everything's computerized. It would be easy to see who is fake and who isn't.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

I could do that...but I wonder if it would do any good. People have complained to the paper before. I wonder if they have made the suggestion about a bigger "your views" section? Then again, their journalists wouldn't be too happy with yielding some space so who knows if they would agree?
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

See and here's the problem PP, you take 1000 people in your area and everyone will probably have his own opinion about things and this is why you will never be happy with what they're writing because the chance it will hit your taste is very slim

I just want the local paper to replace the opinion page with letters to the editor and a warm, friendly, sincere invitation encouraging people to write and letting the readers know how appreciated they are. Without readers you might as well not publish at all. People want to know they are needed and appreciated, not just tabula rasas set for brainwashing.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

hey, how often (in general) do we get what we need PP? I mean, anytime and anywhere.

When I read the local paper the opinions of the journalists and their biases are the most irritating thing about it. That's why I don't read the local paper that often. If that paper would just publish facts and stop trying to brainwash people more people would read it. It has very low readership because folks don't like the feeling they are being manipulated so they don't buy or subscribe. It keeps losing money and keeps raising it's prices to cover the costs.

Why not just report and generate public opinion? Make the public feel more involved and important, and they will buy more copies of the paper. Stop alienating populations with biased, meaningless crap just so you feel more important. It doesn't sell copies.

It is a very serious matter, Guesswho.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

yes but who said that newspapers don't have political views.

Newspapers often confuse their readers and are convoluted by the views of their employees, editors and owners. Papers should strive to be unbiased and shouldn't offer much opinion about anything. Let the readers write in and offer opinions about what they have read. Have a page on that instead of these journalists expressing their views like they are tremendous gods with all sorts of influence. How manipulative!
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
Love / What are the most popular ethnicities for Polish women [90]

Are you sure? ... I didnt see anyone go that desperate.

But you aren't a beautiful woman, so you might not know what it's like. Beautiful women can have dozens of men a day send them stuff, ask for dates or hands in marriage. Some Men want a beautiful woman at home or on their arm. Some will do anything to get one.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

Does The New York Times is a serious paper or they really don't know how to write a non-embarassing full of bollox sponsored text. I know they wanted to advertise Centrum Nauki Kopernik but saying that Poles don't like maths... because of their tragic history made me laugh loudly!

What can you expect from a newspaper?
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
News / WikiLeaks Reveals Tense Foreign Relations Amongst Poland. [22]

is it a Patriot battery if it doesn't have live missiles?

Probably what will happen is if tensions escalate and there is a percievable threat coming from Russia, things will change. Maybe there's other missiles elsewhere that are already operational that can do what these missiles are doing, so these are just back up. It might be more complicated than we realize.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
Love / What are the most popular ethnicities for Polish women [90]

Tricky Polki.They prefer a foreigner because it is easier to dump him.I would like to ask vetala which of the tanned nationalities are most popular among Polki.

It might be because so many foreigners fling themselves at the gals. If you got twenty guys on bended knee giving you money and jewelry, begging to be of service, how can women refuse? Everyone likes to be admired and pampered.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / Why British men move to Poland [63]

(Britain has the most fat people in Europe at 24.5%, Poland is half that at 12.5%)

Poland is lucky to have so many fit people.
PlasticPole   
9 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

I probably wouldn't pay attention to this article but I saw comments on PF that USA is no more attractive for Poles to go to and why would any Pole want to go to the US if he can legally work in UK etc. Another question is, why not just legally stay in Canada instead to choose to be illegal here?

It's because US is the easiest country to live in, legal or not. Even with our sagging economy, we are still attractive to people from all around the world. Our construction industry creates many jobs and opportunities for undocumented workers to make lots more than they make in their own countries.