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applegrove

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17. Democrats have said they are willing to talk about an immigration policy like canada's.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 02:17 AM
Jun 2019

In canada we don't get many illegal immigrants. Well not until Trump. And when we did get some from mexico we just put visa requirements on them for a few years. We are surrounded by 3 oceans. We take if refugees. We take in lots of people. We need immigrants desperately but they are not so much illegal or as low skilled. In my experience the people who nursed my mom and currently do my dad are way over qualified. They just didn't have money for school back home. And once they arrive they get streamed into schooling in the areas that need workers. One of my friends should be a social worker at the police station. The latest guy who is looking after my dad should be a hotel manager. It is not funny. Some upgrade to a full nursing degree. One man from Rawanda who was a nurse is now Director of care for the nursing home. Good on him. Their children do well. A point system is pretty unfair to the world outside. But many nations have it. I know one woman who is going to get her full nursing degree in canada and then go back home to Angola and open a clinic. I don't think the us can survive without lots of immigrants. Just like canada their future depends on them. It would be full on dystopian nightmare without large numbers of immigrants. I don't like the idea of temporary workers either. That is too aparthidy to me but canada does it.

Quite frankly i am more worried about management practices in business in canada. That is something someone like Elizabeth Warren could tackle. The 18th century management model has got to go. I've worked for many bosses and nastyness and not valueing the whole person and clipping employees wings has got to stop. And i hear things from others. I've worked for government and non profits and some businesses who are the most lovely people. But that thing where you grind your employees into the ground to squeeze every cent of productivity out of them so management gets big bonuses is a crime.

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Oh the irony! George II Jun 2019 #1
Her story may well be very, very compelling to unhappy former union people who voted Trump. applegrove Jun 2019 #2
Chris Ladd said something interesting last year Recursion Jun 2019 #19
The country needs Elizabeth Warren at140 Jun 2019 #3
According to Bill Maher from yesterday, the country is a one syllable while Warren is a three question everything Jun 2019 #8
Love to read the rest of the article, but it's that paywall 'thingy' that gripes me. YOHABLO Jun 2019 #4
I saw ot somewhere and could read the whole thing. But i forgot where it was. applegrove Jun 2019 #5
I think any Democrat could win by going a bit to the right on immigration. marylandblue Jun 2019 #16
Democrats have said they are willing to talk about an immigration policy like canada's. applegrove Jun 2019 #17
here Celerity Jun 2019 #7
Thank you so very much! YOHABLO Jun 2019 #11
yw Celerity Jun 2019 #13
Thanks. applegrove Jun 2019 #12
yw Celerity Jun 2019 #14
Warren knows capitalism inside and out. She understands that capitalism must be regulated to Nitram Jun 2019 #6
'The senator from Massachusetts's strong primary campaign suggests that ideas still matter.' elleng Jun 2019 #9
"Yet she remained a registered Republican into her late 40s." myohmy2 Jun 2019 #10
that's very misleading, she was only a registered Repug for around 5 years and the only Rethug POTUS Celerity Jun 2019 #15
Sounds like she was a Rockefeller Republican. marylandblue Jun 2019 #21
That "complaint" was made against FDR by the progressives of his day too Recursion Jun 2019 #18
'Unlike Mrs Clinton, she is leaning into her Republican past' Eric J in MN Jun 2019 #20
Warren was quite literally forged by the Clintons. joshcryer Jun 2019 #22
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