A Philosophy

The real reason is that I have diabetes.

 

Yeah, I can understand why they wouldn't want someone with diabetes to enter the army. Some terrorist may spike your meal with sugar or something.

Seriously, with the majority of troops either being in Iraq or at the Mexican-US border, I don't see why you would pick this time to want to join. Sure, patriotism is a blessing, but at this point, patriotism is more like suicide and/or boredom (imagine standing guard at the border, trying to keep a bunch of wetbacks from jumping the border all day long and hoping none of them are carrying an AIDS-infected needle, or whatever they use as a weapon down in the dirt-hole known as Mexico).

 

Serving in the defense of your country is a time-honored tradition. In my book, everyone who considers themselves a man and is able-bodied to serve should. Grossen, I applaude your want to serve, though yeah the diabetes thing would get in the way. Heck, even asthma will bar you way.
I'd be all for the Starship Trooper version of citizenship, where only those who can and did serve honorably earned the right. That should include voting as well.

We're not all in Iraq, and I dont know anyone who's served on the front lines of Mexico, as thats usually border control's turf. My solution to the Mexican border problem is to simply annex Mexico all the way back to Panama, and make that the new border. (Yeah, the smaller countries are really just Mexican provinces) Mexico becomes the 50-something state (we're at 53 now? Puerto Rico, Guam, Mexico-pending) and they get to stay home with they're family and friends instead of risking their lives jumping the border to earn decent wages.


BTW, why did Hellbokos get banned in the first place?

 

Where the hell do all my posts keep going? Are they registering, or is someone culling them? God dammit, this is why I can't post when I'm high...

 

Nuts to patriotism! Its just an outdated method of recruiting soldiers that has spun out of proportion thanks to ww1 and now we all think our countrys are so damn important, that they're worth dying for. They don't give a shit about you so long as your loyal and expendable.

However giving up all weapons will not work. Then no one would kill anybody then where would we be? Happy. Bar that! Then there'd be nothing to complain about, Stagnation, Arrgh! So long as we're all killing one another for no reason thats all that matters.

 

Technically, it would still be the 51st state, unless it was broken up into smaller pieces. Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. are all just territories of the US, but are currently not official states.

All jokes aside, I don't have a problem with annexing Mexico, as long as the local population would get a full job and not depend on welfare - our country couldn't support a quarter of the Mexican population on welfare.

Oh, there are reasons. In the Middle East it's because they don't agree on who lived in a country first or how many underlings Muhammad initially had. Around here, reasons are even more vague. There are reasons, but the reasons are extremely poor.

 

Call it what you will, I serve with pride and put my country above every other country, cause its mine. If people do not protect themselves from aggressors, then you'll lose everything that they value.

War is used as Population Control, to boost to the economy, and increse human adaptation and evolution to hostile environments.

True, it would be the official Fifty-First, though Guam and Puerto Rico participate in our governement and are defacto States of the US in all but name. We haven't officially recognized them as such, but its only a matter of time. I think we just ran out of room to add more stars. Theres a tradition that came back to haunt us, eh?

Regarding welfare to Mexico, from experience I've noticed that in general they have good work ethics, so this shouldn't be to much of a problem. After all we've got enough bums on welfare, whats the difference?

If it were up to me, I'd add more restrictions to welfare and nix Social Security. I've no love of communism, and think its a drain on productivity, technical advancements, and the economy in general.

 

Sure, I believe that most Mexicans will have good enough work ethics to stay (for the most part) off welfare. However, the jobs they take and thereby the people they replace may not have the same notions of economic courtesy (*cough* New Orleans *cough*).

Welfare should only be for those who are either mentally or physically disabled, or due to some unfortunate circumstance that cannot be reversed or repaired, they are unable to find employment. Futhermore, those on welfare should NOT be allowed to vote, own a vehicle, etc. It would make welfare less desirable and keep those on welfare from changing the direction of the country in their favor while they do nothing to help it (i.e. contributing to the working economy).

The problem with Communism is that it doesn\'t work unless enforce by a violent iron fist, and then people feel oppressed and mishandled and it only makes the overall situation worse. \"As long as you pretend to pay us, we\'ll pretend to work.\"

EDIT: How cute, I\'m getting blackslashes before all my single and double quotation marks. Apparently it\'s not distinguishing between the PHP and the block of post text. Post-hacking trauma?

 

If we annex Mexico, I have a feeling many of them will stay in their existing neighborhoods and continue working at their same jobs. A bonus would be those who've jumped the border just to get jobs will probably go home to earn the same wages there. That would free up existing jobs that most Americans dont want anyway.

Stopping welfare bums from voting might help, but since they dont care enough about themselves and their economic future, they probably dont vote in the first place. I've got no problems with the handicapped getting assistance, but they're probably the minority. In Los Angeles, you see a lot of able-bodied people on welfare and hooked on drugs. They dont care cause they dont have to do anything. I say we cancel they're ciizenship, and replace them with the migrant workers who give a damn.

 

Actually, there is always a lot of campaigning during elections in which one presidential canditate claims the other is going to take away their welfare, thus buying their confidence and their votes. Even if they aren\'t in the majority, there are enough of them that if they voted a certain way as a whole, it could very well change the outcome of an election.

Oh, and one other thing I forgot to mention earlier - if we annex Mexico, we would also be annexing the diseases that they have but don\'t have the finances to take care of, thus making it the USA\'s problem, instead of just theirs. We would have to either fund a campaign (probably out of the taxpayers\' money) to vaccinate and/or cure all, or at least the majority, of the Mexican population, or allow their diseases to enter primary USA and possibly infect those who would otherwise be safe, due to immigrant disease restrictions.

Of course, here in the North, I wouldn\'t really have to worry about that problem. As long as we don\'t annex Canada, bringing the Cock Mite into our midst through lack of treatment for those infected, I\'ll be fine.

 

Interesting...
Now I can murder Mathboy and pin it on Hellbokos. This page will be all the proof I need.
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Damn my lack of an internal monologue....

Why didn't I receive any death spam?
-sniff-

 

we're not cool, apparently.