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The supposed economic competition between blacks and Hispanics is reminiscent of struggles in the past centuries here in the US between native-born Americans and immigrants and between competing immigrant groups. Such struggles were a distraction from the important goal of securing better compensation and working conditions. To oppose immigration now on any grounds is the rankest hypocrisy in light of everyone's immigrant origins. The arguments against immigration we hear now (including that it takes jobs away from blacks) have been reiterated throughout the entire history of this country. Insofar as workers have an opponent, it is their employers more than other workers. All workers have the same interests fundamentally, while those of workers and employers are, to some extent, opposed. The best employers are the ones who can curtail this opposition.

"For a quarter-century after World War II, the United States made great progress against poverty. Then in the 1970s, we fumbled. Over the last 35 years, our economy has almost tripled in size, but, according to the United States Census Bureau, the number of Americans living below the poverty line has been stuck at roughly 1 in 8."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/opinion/25kristof.html

"A couple of weeks ago, Limbaugh even vowed to leave the United States and move to Costa Rica if healthcare reform passed. Evidently, nobody told him Costa Rica has a government-funded, single-payer healthcare system. He has since recanted.

Neither Limbaugh nor Chicken Little had anything on Fox News' Glenn Beck, who actually compared the bill's passage to Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor! Not to be outdone, Mark Steyn, writing in the formerly respectable National Review, envisions "fewer doctors, more bureaucracy, massive IRS expansion, explosive debt, the end of the Pax Americana, and global Armageddon."

According to Steyn, America's "global military capacity" will need to be sacrificed to the ruinous expense of paying for grandpa's health insurance. Nuclear holocaust can only follow."

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/03/24/gop_whine

Obama advises Indonesia to investigate past crimes among politicians, but the opposite in the US.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/03/25/obama