Bait and switch.

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Bait and switch.

Mary Anne — 9/6/2008 1:08:17 AM (archived)

If there are no jobs, they will not come.

The people who provide the jobs are causing the crime because they are the suppliers.

You approach this like a cop who arrests the prostitutes but leaves the johns and the pimps alone. Do you want to solve the problem, or do you just want a target to shoot at?

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Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - z - 9/5/2008 4:02:19 AM
- agreed - Jack Herer - 9/5/2008 3:29:32 PM
- Probably spells doom for far more than the Republican Party. - Lee - 9/5/2008 11:36:07 AM
  - Cultural greatness isn't color- or language-dependent. - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 4:45:38 PM
    - The Death of Diversity. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:20:28 PM
      - Don't get him wrong... - ER - 9/5/2008 5:37:51 PM
        
        The Holocaust was all about diversity... - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 8:41:13 PM
        
        The obligatory Nazi reference. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:47:42 AM
        
        The obvious Western culture reference. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:02:52 AM
        
        Truth is subjective and... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:57:31 PM
        
        You seem to confuse the criminals with the victims. - alcaray - 9/6/2008 12:10:21 AM
        
        See? This is what it has become. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:36:37 AM
        
        You described them as victims yourself. - alcaray - 9/6/2008 1:33:50 AM
        
        Bait and switch. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:08:17 AM
        
        Facetiousness. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:22:41 AM
        
        I would be in favor of such a law. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:40:12 AM
  - America will be just fine! But you Republicans won't be! - z - 9/5/2008 4:04:34 PM
    - So tell me. - Lee - 9/6/2008 1:54:34 AM
      - I don't want to live in an officially Black, White, Hispanic or Asian country - z - 9/6/2008 3:15:36 AM
        
        Mexico is. - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:53:01 AM
      - We ceased to be a "white country" when John Smith met Powhatan. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 2:03:44 AM
        
        So tell me again. - Lee - 9/6/2008 2:28:10 AM
        
        Wrong. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 2:52:57 AM
        
        And BTW - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:42:48 AM
        
        So what you're saying... - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:29:10 AM
        
        What I'm saying is that this country was never the lily-white place of white supremicist legend. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 11:56:54 AM
        
        No, he didn't. - Lee - 9/6/2008 3:36:32 PM
- re: Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - Marcia - 9/5/2008 4:33:31 AM
  - re: Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - Marcia - 9/5/2008 4:37:34 AM
- If you move to Mexico now you can... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 4:17:04 AM
  - This one's for you, homey! - z - 9/5/2008 5:20:26 AM
    - Poverty. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 4:35:00 PM
      - Come with me to Appalachia, pal. - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 4:53:54 PM
        
        Poverty of mind is everywhere. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:34:19 PM
        
        The thing about poverty of mind... - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 9:06:43 PM
        
        My own experiences. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 10:17:41 PM
        
        Back in the good old days, when there was no illegal immigration? - alcaray - 9/5/2008 10:58:36 PM
        
        Yes, that was the point precisely. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:56:59 AM
        
        Time for a dye-job. Your reactionary roots are showing. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/6/2008 1:36:20 AM
        
        If Lee lend's me his powdered white wig, I'll go cover up. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 3:02:05 AM
        
        Worried about cheaters? - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 10:32:17 PM
        
        re: Who are the cheaters? - SteveS - 9/6/2008 2:35:29 PM
        
        Pointless? - Mary Anne - 9/7/2008 3:43:25 PM
        
        re: Pointless? - SteveS - 9/8/2008 12:03:26 AM
        
        Who said anything about arresting employers? - Mary Anne - 9/8/2008 12:20:17 AM
        
        re: So goes the problem - SteveS - 9/8/2008 3:44:55 AM
        
        Again: who said anything about violent criminals? - Mary Anne - 9/9/2008 1:26:19 AM
        
        re: Worried about cheaters? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:08:15 AM
        
        Apples and oranges - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:17:54 AM
        
        Are you sure? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:31:05 AM
        
        They'd have to know how to read. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:41:20 AM
        
        Agreed with everything you said, but... - alcaray - 9/5/2008 5:10:22 PM
    - Why are the subtitles in Spanish? - ER - 9/5/2008 12:22:29 PM
      - There's another version with English subtitles - I'll post it tonight - z - 9/5/2008 1:27:48 PM
        
        It still doesn't explain those Spanish subtitles - ER - 9/5/2008 1:37:13 PM
        
        with English subtitles... - z - 9/6/2008 2:50:53 AM

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