Quote from: RE on Jan 16, 2024, 06:34 AM

Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 16, 2024, 04:12 AM

QuoteAt Target in nearby Kings Plaza, one security guard estimated up to 10 migrants a day swipe bread, rice, and other groceries.

The Horror

Typical minor complaints from local residents and biz owners, but the point is that it's not a viable situation for anybody.  You can't just dump 2000 people into a neighborhood living in tents with nothing to do except make trouble with each other and the locals.  There's no plan for moving them on to something besides an Army tent and MREs for food.  They've already been there since November, by the time summer rolls around everybody's gonna be fed up with it.  They have porta-potties, but where are these folks showering?  The place is going to stink in the summer when everybody is sweating on the tarmac.

RE

I totally agree, but in America you get what you earn.  That is common mythology as opposed to getting something for nothing which is the actual American state of things.  These migrant people who have earned nothing get shit.  They can live on a runway with nothing to do because that is what they deserve.

Now I take my Merican hat off and say this attitude is fucked up.  Besides being untrue.

Calling the runway camp a solution gives it too much credit.  The runway camp was set up because the migrants were bussed up from southern states to give the northern states a fair share of the migrant goodness.  Something that would be an actual solution would bus the migrants, give income to all, and jobs to those who can work.  A program would be set up with the task of integrating the migrants into society.  Free education would be part of the package.  Housing would be provided.

Which of course can't happen because then we would have to treat our own citizens like we treat migrants and America would be socialist.

Our system does not allow magnanimity.  Our system is mean and brutal, with only vestiges of attempts to make it fair fading away under the political pressure of Fascism Lite and MAGA.  Fairness is not part of the money game.  Exploitation is.