Is our country supposed to be the world's charity?
The truth is many countries around the world have been pillaged by their own corrupt leadership and a complicit international system.
It's not a racial issue, nor does it mean that these places don't have their own charm and beauty and can be loved by people that call it home or have a special connection there.
I myself lived in Uzbekistan and love that country and it's people but I'm not going to sugar coat the truth that most people from the U.S. and other western countries would absolutely consider it an underdeveloped, backwards place. ...or as the mainstream media has attributed to Trump, "a sh*thole." If Trump said that (as horrible as it is) it truly reflects how most Americans would feel about these places even if they weren't so crass as to say it out loud.
I'm used to this sort of outlook from my fellow Americans in relation to my home state of Missouri. After ten years on the East Coast the majority of the people I meet act like my home state is a shthole. Following that experience, I think it's just as likely that most Americans would consider countries where the majority of people don't have plumbing and have to literally sht in holes to be sh*thole countries.
Besides the truth of how most Americans feel about underprivileged countries another truth is that the United States is the actual shthole... with crumbling health, education and infrastructure and with a projected public debt of nearly 40 trillion dollars in the next 10 years.... how are we not the world's shthole.
Thank god people are asking why we're not focused on making our own country a better place before we help the world?
Why do we have a lottery quota system for immigration from places where half of the immigrants will be a further drain on public welfare? What is the point of this? Why is it necessary?
Why would we have an immigration lottery and not a merit-based system to try to help improve our own country with qualified and dedicated immigrants? Not just immigrants that want a better life, but immigrants that want to be American and help the U.S.?
Is our country supposed to be the world's charity? It might sound nice and high-minded to try to help the world with billions in humanitarian aid and open immigration, but do we really have the resources necessary to do this?
It might sound high-minded to leave your doors unlocked at night and let homeless people sleep in your home and borrow your car and use your bank account... so why don't you do that? Why don't you be the change that you want to see in the world? Maybe because that wouldn't work and wouldn't be practical. You'd soon be homeless yourself and then what about the good of you and your own family?
I love my Uzbek friends that were able to immigrate to the U.S. (some of them thanks to the lottery) and I'm so happy for them. They got lucky. We all got lucky.... because some people will point out that the recent ISIS-inspired NYC truck murderer was an Uzbek here thanks to the immigration lottery.
The lottery is a crap shoot and why is it necessary. How does it help anyone except very few individuals? In all, despite the immigration lottery having helped those individuals it's also very cruel to the people that lose more than they can afford to lose on the lottery.
It's cruel to entice poor people around the world to waste their money on a lottery, and even if they win they could possibly have an even worse life in the U.S. where they'll still face poverty.
Anyone might have a special connection to an underdeveloped country but that doesn't change the reality of what the U.S. is facing and it doesn't change that the immigration lottery system from underdeveloped countries helps very few people and is unnecessary except to provide a larger voter base of welfare-dependent voters for Democrats.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-real-bleep-hole-moment-40-trillion-and-counting/