Time is due!
I am sorry I have to strongly disagree with you on that note. The time is long overdue!
Ron
Oddly, the thread was started by an immigrant...
The only odd thing about your remark is that: I'm living in Thailand as non-immigrant with an annually renewable visa (even if married to a Thai wife) on basis of a retirement visa, having to prove an annual minimum income or a fixed (pretty high) deposit on a Thai bank account. Theese savings are not be touched (not even widthdrawn partly) as long as you intend to stay in Thailand and the interest rate is max 1.5% p.a. and the amount is in a region no Thai worker will earn all his life long. (TBT 800,000 = US$25,000).
He could do it if he gains the corresponding age working 22 years (7 days a week) without using any money to make his living and of course do not buy any clothes, soap or tooth cream, earning 3,000TBT per month - which is already midrange income.
Greetings
Boncuk
Sigh - I often wonder whether there will ever come a time when humanity moves beyond this racist, bigotted rhetoric...
Seriously; forget their ethnicity, forget their religion, forget everything but that they are a human being: If these immigrants are in some manner breaking the law, as agreed upon by your elected representatives and agents thereof, then prosecute the offender(s). If your elected representatives aren't doing their job, vote them out.
If they too are breaking the law, they should be prosecuted. If they are all in collusion and breaking the law - from the highest to the lowest - well, hope you have guns and a will for revolution; otherwise you are hosed, and all the complaining about it will get you nowhere...
If these immigrants are living and coexisting with you peacefully, and otherwise respecting the law, what business is it of yours to deprive them in any way? Because they are "taking advantage" of programs put into place by your elected representatives and the citizens? Would it be less of a problem if more of the citizens (sans immigrant community) were "on the dole"? Maybe these programs are the problem...? Here's a question: Why aren't you taking advantage of them yourself, if you think they are living so great on the services?
Let's be honest here: You hate them because they are Muslim, you hate them because they are "the Other". Its simple bigotry and racism; should they all leave tommorow, you would find someone else to hate - perhaps your fine, upstanding Jewish neighbor...right?
Damn - one would think we would have learned our lessons in this world in the past 100 years; one would think we would've moved beyond this pap now that we're in the 21st century. These attitudes, posturings, hate and intolerance must be banished from humanity, if we are to have any hope to make it on (and off) this planet...
Sigh- I often wonder when there will come a time when people will realize it has very little to do with racism or ethnicity but observing and enforcing immigration laws/reform.
So what you are saying is that Thailand has an anti-freeloader policy in place. I like that.
Ron
For the record, I agree with Cr0sh, the thread is laced with blatant racism. I spent many years in Germany, so nobody can use the cop out that I don't know what I'm talking about. To be honest, I've know many Germans who are drunks, and many Arabs who are industrious ( due to my career, in which I've worked with people from all over the globe )
If my comments sound racist, then so be it. My point is nobody really has a biases for feeling superior based on their race or national origin, though many do.
Germany is more than generous towards foreigners, which I can not say about the policies of the USA. Study your own immigration laws before you argue any more!
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