"They" ruined "it" for everyone!!!

[ChadTower]

Nice pun, that misspelling. 

[JamIt]

I am not ignorant of that fact. 

It doesn't address the massive problems we had where I used to live regarding the numbers of people moving from there and not getting jobs, not contributing to society, committing welfare fraud, clogging up the high schools with 20 year olds that don't intend to graduate, etc etc.

I'm not saying all of them... but there were far, far too many who did.

Poor attempt at spin control Chad.  You initially lump Puerto Ricans in with talk of illegal aliens and when you are corrected, you begin to describe some outbreak of lazy Puerto Ricans which has nothing to do with my response.   

You know I'm not ignorant to the fact that Pluto is no longer considered a planet.  But that doesn't address the problems we had with science teachers always making us create those model solar systems.

Moral of story, its okay to say "my bad"

[ChadTower]

When they come here with the sole intent of committing fraud against the state, that is illegal, and I do lump them in with the rest.  Because the only reason they're not illegal aliens specifically is because of where they were born, and that's just probability in play.  I used to work in that welfare system and the blatant in your face fraud was mind boggling and it was almost always, in that particular locality, people from Puerto Rico.  We'd catch people blatantly lying in our face about anything you could think of, then they'd claim it was a language issue, then they'd say it was racism on our part, then they'd threaten us personally, then they'd actually have to be dragged out of the office kicking and screaming by a Police officer.  And they'd just move two towns over and start again a couple months later.

There was no spin involved.  That's how I see it.  You don't like that, apparently, and I do not care.

[leapinlew]

Frizzle ruined Arcade Miscellaneous

[FrizzleFried]

Damn Lew...you beat me to it.

 

[leapinlew]

Damn Lew...you beat me to it.

 

 

[JamIt]

When they come here with the sole intent of committing fraud against the state, that is illegal, and I do lump them in with the rest. 

The "rest" being just Mexicans and Dominicans?  Or are the illegal aliens from Poland, China and other countries included as well?  Just curious as I want to be sure who you are lumping Puerto Ricans in with.

Because the only reason they're not illegal aliens specifically is because of where they were born, and that's just probability in play. 

Cmon Chad, even you have to admit that this is a silly statement.  "Alien" status by definition is driven by where a person is born.

I used to work in that welfare system and the blatant in your face fraud was mind boggling and it was almost always, in that particular locality, people from Puerto Rico.  We'd catch people blatantly lying in our face about anything you could think of, then they'd claim it was a language issue, then they'd say it was racism on our part, then they'd threaten us personally, then they'd actually have to be dragged out of the office kicking and screaming by a Police officer.  And they'd just move two towns over and start again a couple months later.

I can imagine that this experience could cause you to have a negative impression on a culture.  I ask that you remain open-minded and realize that every culture/race/nationalism has its bad eggs.

There was no spin involved.  That's how I see it.  You don't like that, apparently, and I do not care.

The only part I actually care about, which my initial comment stemmed from, is ignorance being spread.  You implied that Puerto Ricans are illegal aliens and I simply corrected you in case others were reading.

[ChadTower]

The only part I actually care about, which my initial comment stemmed from, is ignorance being spread.  You implied that Puerto Ricans are illegal aliens and I simply corrected you in case others were reading.

Understood.  It wasn't where I was going with that, but if it appeared I was, consider that clarified.  The non-alien status of these particular individuals actually helps them as you can't simply arrest and deport someone from Puerto Rico when they're caught committing fraud.  We used to occasionally catch people with faked Puerto Rican documentation trying to pose as Puerto Rican immigrants.  That was always fun.