Oklahoma's Most "Un"Christian Christian legislative agenda

RileyG said:

Yes, I understand what you are saying, but on the other hand...

Wouldn't that force all prices to increase in the process?

And I DO have issues with minimum wage because it's NOT a livable wage.

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Thank goodness not many people even work for minimum wage.

KathrynAragon said:

Thank goodness not many people even work for minimum wage.

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That's true - as of 2022 only about 1.3% or roughly a million people are working the minimum wage. This is likely due to unemployment being at historically low rates.

DaisyDay said:

Logansport officials say immigration 'is nothing new' as Haitian influx goes national • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Thousands of Haitian nationals with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) have found a home in the Hoosier city of Logansport

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Logansport Mayor Chris Martin has previously estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 Haitian people have come to the city in the last four years. He wasn’t available for comment Wednesday.​

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Manning said Martin and Police Chief Travis Yike had reported no increase in violent crime. But, he noted an increase in traffic violations.​

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Manning also recounted speaking with Tyson Foods officials, who run a meat processing plant in Logansport. He said Haitian employees aren’t on Medicaid since Tyson offers health insurance starting “day one,” and that the company doesn’t provide free housing or large-scale transportation.​

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Logansport Community School Corporation Superintendent Michele Starkey said the district was “operating as normal” and is “not overrun” in comments last week to the Pharos-Tribune.​

I really don't understand the logic of forbidding local municipalities from providing services to the homeless, etc.

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For me I take notice of things. The Fox News article speaks of an inundation of immigrants from places like Haiti. I sincerely doubt that, were several hundred to a couple thousand people from a European country came and settled in some middle-American towns that this would even necessarily be newsworthy. I've never seen an article speaking of an inundation of Norwegians or Germans. Or even an inundation of Russians, even though I used to live in a town with significant Eastern European immigrants, especially Russians, many who had come to the US during the end of the Soviet era, or more recent transplants wishing a better life here in the States than what they were experiencing in post-Soviet era or Putin-era Russia.

I used to live on the Washington side of the Washington-Oregon border, right across from Portland, OR. Otherwise known as "the other Vancouver". And of all the immigrants and immigrant populations I lived with all were good hardworking people. For several years I had neighbors on one side who were an elderly Iranian couple who fled Iran with their kids and grandkids to escape persecution (they were Bahai), and my neighbors on the other side of me as a Bulgarian family. The Bulgarian family were a little stand-offish, though generally nice. The Iranian elderly couple were the sweetest human beings on the planet, and whenever they had leftovers would bring some over to make sure I was eating enough (as an aside, homemade Persian food is just incredible).

Which is to say two things:

1) I find it very suspicious when it just so happens that certain types of immigrants are singled out as a problem.

2) My entire experience of living in immigrant-dense places, who come from very diverse places, is that they contribute to the good of the communities, towns, and cities where they live; they add depth and richness to the cultural landscape, they make America a better place to live.

-CryptoLutheran

ViaCrucis said:

For me I take notice of things. The Fox News article speaks of an inundation of immigrants from places like Haiti. I sincerely doubt that, were several hundred to a couple thousand people from a European country came and settled in some middle-American towns that this would even necessarily be newsworthy. I've never seen an article speaking of an inundation of Norwegians or Germans. Or even an inundation of Russians, even though I used to live in a town with significant Eastern European immigrants, especially Russians, many who had come to the US during the end of the Soviet era, or more recent transplants wishing a better life here in the States than what they were experiencing in post-Soviet era or Putin-era Russia.

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If FoxNews had been around in 1850 they certainly would be:

"German horde overwhelms midwestern town."
"Whole sections of Cincinnati now occupied by Kasier's subjects"

(Don't worry, there were news outlets carrying this vile water in 1850 for the not-yet-existent FoxNews.)