09-06-2016, 11:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2016, 11:07 AM by Eric the Green.)
(09-06-2016, 08:51 AM)Anthony 58 Wrote: But liberals should be "hawks," based on radical Islam's strident misogyny and literally deadly homophobia;Yes, but selectively and not stupidly; using negotiation, with war as a last resort not a first.
Quote: liberals should also be "hawkish" on immigration, because slamming the door on immigration leads to labor shortages that drive up wages, especially low-end wages;
No, because immigration creates jobs; it's why the USA was recovering better than Europe was.
As of now, more restrictive legal immigration plus massive deportation is the only way to slam any doors. Companies want cheap labor, and immigrants are the only ones who will do the low-end jobs. No, the flat minimum wage is what kept low-end wages low. It needs to be raised and enforced for all workers, whether illegal or legal.
Quote: and pro-Second Amendment because 95% of those who go to prison under the restrictive, confiscatory gun laws the various states already have are people of color, who make up only about half that percentage of those incarcerated under the "racist" drug laws.
The second Amendment is not under threat. Only, perhaps, the Heller/Scalia interpretation of it. But gun fanatics like to conflate the two.
You have a source for that 95% figure?
IF true, it's not for gun control laws that they go to prison, but for using guns in crimes. Those are the laws that exist "in the various states out there." Right now, gun control is sparse; only in some blue states, which have lower gun crime rates as a result of their laws.
It's the racist drug laws that account for people of color in prison, along with racial profiling.