"SteveB" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> But they AREN'T demons, Lou. They're dirt poor people who were born
>>>>>> in a country that gives them no opportunity and no hope. Our
>>>>>> ancestors
>>>>>> were lucky enough to have gotten here at an earlier time, some
>>>>>> legally,
>>>>>> some illegally, when things were less complicated and society more
>>>>>> forgiving.
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> Don't you DARE ****ing include my ancestors with this group! My
> grandfather and grandmother came here a year apart from Poland in 1913 and
> 1914. They had the clothes on their backs, the money in their pockets,
> and one small suitcase each. They found work. They met and married.
> They started learning English, and started studying for citizenship. They
> were made citizens BEFORE having their first child. They had five.
> They forbade their children from speaking Polish in the house, although
> the kids would do it on the sly, and paying the price of corporal
> punishment if caught. Every one of the boys served in WW2. The two women
> married and had great children. They were legal US citizens, and just
> people who observed the law. So don't give me that happy liberal
> horseshit line. My ancestors were two classes and a huge step ahead of
> this human garbage that is rotting out system and services from within,
> learning to leech on the system and being proud of it. Either that, or
> too lazy to work, and getting money from illegal activities.
>
> Asshole.
>

Actually, you are the asshole.