Comments on: Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City? http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carlos http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-687872 Carlos Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:56:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-687872 In answer to the question posed, yes! Oh my God, yes! In answer to the question posed, yes! Oh my God, yes!

]]> By: Dry Salami http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-40323 Dry Salami Fri, 16 May 2008 05:18:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-40323 What a pound and a half of baloney that article is. I suggest Navarrette take a ride around an area of town where multiplexes have produce trucks parked in front of them night and day. The cash only third world Los Angeles economy has sidestepped our own. I'll never forget driving around Van Nuys on an early Saturday morning looking for an open store. At 7AM all the stores were still closed, but long lines had already formed at two places. One was the money wiring joint, and other at the free clinic. Tax dollars and helping the local economy my butt. Climb down out of your ivory tower and take a look around Navarrette! LA is *already* a third world city. The real problem is no one wants to admit it. What a pound and a half of baloney that article is. I suggest Navarrette take a ride around an area of town where multiplexes have produce trucks parked in front of them night and day. The cash only third world Los Angeles economy has sidestepped our own. I’ll never forget driving around Van Nuys on an early Saturday morning looking for an open store. At 7AM all the stores were still closed, but long lines had already formed at two places. One was the money wiring joint, and
other at the free clinic. Tax dollars and helping the local economy my butt. Climb down out of your ivory tower and take a look around Navarrette! LA is *already* a third world city. The real problem is no one wants to admit it.

]]> By: Thomas-in-Newport http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-35557 Thomas-in-Newport Sun, 04 May 2008 16:16:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-35557 Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City? I have seen LA and it is already a 3rd world country. They have the rich and powerful and the poor and downtrodden. They have the mansions and the slums. I have no idea why anyone would want to live there. If someone is in this country illegally then catch them and send them home. If they come back illegally then send them to a punishment work camp for 1 year then send them home again. I am not sure they have any legal rights if they sneak into this country. And when a large group of them from the same country do it isn’t that normally called an invasion? If they are here legally, then … Welcome! Newcomers are a refreshment to the life blood of this country. We will accept what is good about their culture and toss out what is not. Do not expect the nation as a whole to follow, accept or allow all of your culture. If that is what you wanted, then you should have stayed home. AND we need to change the law so the children of people that are here illegally are NOT citizens. Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City? I have seen LA and it is already a 3rd world country. They have the rich and powerful and the poor and downtrodden. They have the mansions and the slums. I have no idea why anyone would want to live there.

If someone is in this country illegally then catch them and send them home. If they come back illegally then send them to a punishment work camp for 1 year then send them home again. I am not sure they have any legal rights if they sneak into this country. And when a large group of them from the same country do it isn’t that normally called an invasion?

If they are here legally, then … Welcome! Newcomers are a refreshment to the life blood of this country. We will accept what is good about their culture and toss out what is not. Do not expect the nation as a whole to follow, accept or allow all of your culture. If that is what you wanted, then you should have stayed home.

AND we need to change the law so the children of people that are here illegally are NOT citizens.

]]> By: J.J. Sefton http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-35063 J.J. Sefton Fri, 02 May 2008 22:26:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-35063 What do you mean 'becoming?' It is! This is a town where money is an illusion. People drive around in $250,000 Lamborghinis by day, and then sleep in them by night because they can't afford an apartment. I wasted almost 10 years of my life there and can't figure out what makes that place run. Glad to be back in the madness of Manhattan. As for immigration policy - what part of the word ILLEGAL don't people understand? So, I'll pay more for my lettuce. Gladly, because I will pay far less in taxes to support these criminal border jumpers. Pay itinerant workers who allegedly won't do the jobs that illegals do better money, REPEATEDLY ENFORCE stiff fines to anyone who knowingly hires an illegal. Eventually, they can't work and will jump the border back to Mexico. I am not racist and this is not a racism issue. I'm the child of an immigrant and it is our diversity that makes us great. But if you want to live here? Get in line like everyone else. Having to constantly explain this is just ridiculous and effin tiresome. What do you mean ‘becoming?’ It is! This is a town where money is an illusion. People drive around in $250,000 Lamborghinis by day, and then sleep in them by night because they can’t afford an apartment. I wasted almost 10 years of my life there and can’t figure out what makes that place run. Glad to be back in the madness of Manhattan.

As for immigration policy – what part of the word ILLEGAL don’t people understand? So, I’ll pay more for my lettuce. Gladly, because I will pay far less in taxes to support these criminal border jumpers. Pay itinerant workers who allegedly won’t do the jobs that illegals do better money, REPEATEDLY ENFORCE stiff fines to anyone who knowingly hires an illegal. Eventually, they can’t work and will jump the border back to Mexico. I am not racist and this is not a racism issue. I’m the child of an immigrant and it is our diversity that makes us great. But if you want to live here? Get in line like everyone else. Having to constantly explain this is just ridiculous and effin tiresome.

]]> By: Increase Mather http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34953 Increase Mather Fri, 02 May 2008 17:10:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34953 is LA becoming a third world city...? You mean, like Detroit? is LA becoming a third world city…? You mean, like Detroit?

]]> By: Nahanni http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34943 Nahanni Fri, 02 May 2008 16:10:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34943 "Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City?" No. it already is a third world city. San Francisco is worse, in some areas the "alternative housing"...errr...homeless people have turned the streets of San Francisco into the streets of Calcutta. “Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City?”

No. it already is a third world city. San Francisco is worse, in some areas the “alternative housing”…errr…homeless people have turned the streets of San Francisco into the streets of Calcutta.

]]> By: Valjean http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34672 Valjean Thu, 01 May 2008 19:13:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34672 "... while they and their spouses labor in their white-collar world, someone is home taking care of the kids, mowing the lawn, making dinner, and cleaning the house. And, often, that person is an immigrant — sometimes legal, sometimes illegal, but an immigrant nonetheless. Checkmate." My arse. I lived in the LA area 23 years and took care of my own kids (with my spouse), mowed my own lawn, made my own dinner and my wife cleaned the house. Thousands, if not millions, do the same. Oh, and I worked in "the industry" to boot. That being said, I fully recognize the value that illegal workers bring; I'm actually for a very open immigration policy (pace Milton Friedman) provided new workers can't collect government benefits for a set number of years. Mr. Navarrette's arguments are weak and anecdotal. He needs to retrench and explain the fundamental reasons for a liberal immigration policy -- not just take potshots at stereotyped white-collar industry executives. “… while they and their spouses labor in their white-collar world, someone is home taking care of the kids, mowing the lawn, making dinner, and cleaning the house. And, often, that person is an immigrant — sometimes legal, sometimes illegal, but an immigrant nonetheless.

Checkmate.”

My arse. I lived in the LA area 23 years and took care of my own kids (with my spouse), mowed my own lawn, made my own dinner and my wife cleaned the house. Thousands, if not millions, do the same. Oh, and I worked in “the industry” to boot.

That being said, I fully recognize the value that illegal workers bring; I’m actually for a very open immigration policy (pace Milton Friedman) provided new workers can’t collect government benefits for a set number of years.

Mr. Navarrette’s arguments are weak and anecdotal. He needs to retrench and explain the fundamental reasons for a liberal immigration policy — not just take potshots at stereotyped white-collar industry executives.

]]> By: Mike Fresno http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34567 Mike Fresno Thu, 01 May 2008 15:31:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34567 This country is built by mowing lawns, feeding the children, and cleaning the toilets of the real workers. Someone from such a logical place as Fareed Zakaria's home world should laugh at how preposterous that sounds. This is talking point. Illegal immigrants *built* the United States by doing this. Laugh at them. This country is built by mowing lawns, feeding the children, and cleaning the toilets of the real workers. Someone from such a logical place as Fareed Zakaria’s home world should laugh at how preposterous that sounds.

This is talking point. Illegal immigrants *built* the United States by doing this. Laugh at them.

]]> By: Dark Helmet http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34482 Dark Helmet Thu, 01 May 2008 11:58:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34482 T.J., People who work their entire lives at low wage low skill jobs are as an improtant a part of the system as those more dedicated and often fortunate and wealthier. The point being that it is a system, one system. One country and one language. The problem is that people break our laws to come here. The biggest problem of all and yet to be addressed is why the US Government has done nothing about it. The very job of our governemnt is to provide security to our borders, not telling us how many french fries we can eat. The people that we ALLOW to govern us have not done their job and acted out of interests other than the United States of America, T.J.,

People who work their entire lives at low wage low skill jobs are as an improtant a part of the system as those more dedicated and often fortunate and wealthier. The point being that it is a system, one system. One country and one language. The problem is that people break our laws to come here. The biggest problem of all and yet to be addressed is why the US Government has done nothing about it. The very job of our governemnt is to provide security to our borders, not telling us how many french fries we can eat. The people that we ALLOW to govern us have not done their job and acted out of interests other than the United States of America,

]]> By: T. J. Babson http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34465 T. J. Babson Thu, 01 May 2008 10:45:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-los-angeles-becoming-a-third-world-city/#comment-34465 People who work their entire lives at low wage, low skill jobs are a net drag on the system. They pay almost no income taxes, and will receive far more in social security & medicare benefits than they contributed. People who work their entire lives at low wage, low skill jobs are a net drag on the system. They pay almost no income taxes, and will receive far more in social security & medicare benefits than they contributed.

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