"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American."
Theodore Roosevelt
October 12, 1915
Not mt handiwork. Sometimes attributed to Ted Nugent and/or George Carlin but really unknown who the author was.SS109 said:Damn Patman, well said! :cool:
RM_guy said:I didn't know who was doing the asking (at some washington hearing) but Holder was asked if he read the AZ law...he said he did not. The guy said it was only 10 pages long and he didn't read it??? This is our current administration
Things change. Do you still ride a horse to town to pick up supplies for the month? I didn't think so. Yeah in the beginning we needed people to build this great country but now you need to bring something to the table. I know all to well the hassles in getting a work visa from another country. We recently closed a plant in Canada and one guy decided to work in the states. A lot of paper work but he has skills that we couldn't easily get elsewhere. Believe me we tried to hire someone from the US.But someone always posts about how their wee little grand pappy came here and did the right thing and applied for citizenship. Things were certainly easier and more lax "back in the day", when the USA needed people to populate the land.
Yeah, the rules do need to change but not in the way of allowing more immigrants. If you haven't seen this vid please watch it as it will shed some light on the legal immigration problem we have. Remember, it doesn't even cover the additional problem of illegal immigrants!Wolf said:I don't disagree with any of the above...yes it is hard and in some instances impossible for some to enter and work in this country legally - maybe the rules need to change...that said...does that give you the right to do it illegally? I think not.
whenfoxforks-ruled said:. I have heard tell, that a legal alien will get more funds, from our government, a monthly benefit, than a natural citizen that has worked their entire life for social security benefits.
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