If we want to let in millions of undocumented workers, I vote to let in millions of Filipinos!

They have provided invaluable help in a few wars. They make fabulous citizens and are extremely patriotic. Here where I live you see a lot of Filipinos with American flags on their cars and houses. The women are beautiful and gracious and make the best, most patient nurses. They do not have a racist bone in their bodies, because they are already a mix of races and cultures themselves. They intermarry frequently with Blacks and whites and the resulting children are so incredibly goodlooking it's amazing!

Many of the baggage handlers before 9/11 were Filipinos and were mistakenly dismissed by the Bush administration, and replaced with idiots who are now demanding Union representation. There was no law against taking box cutters on planes and so the former baggage handlers had done nothing wrong. I remember seeing on the news one of the Filipino handlers who heard of the plan to replace the handlers with people picked by homeland security, and she said some of the handlers suggested striking in opposition, but she herself could not do that to the American people during the holiday season. Now that is devotion to ones job and customers. As it was she probably lost her job anyway.

Here is a comment from a Filipino blog about the superiority of Western democracy, by a Filipino living in Sydney Australia.

"When we go to the west, we see that drivers stop at pedestrian crossings and actually let people cross. A bus stop actually means that the bus only stops at the bus stop! That bureaucracies are less labyrinthine and don't encourage you to bribe your way through. That you can work at a backbreaking factory job on night shift and be paid enough so that you can go overseas on your holidays. That you pay your taxes and you actually see the money flowing back to your own benefit in the form of social infrastructure like education, health care, roadworks, aned social welfare. That people who steal public funds get caught out because whistleblowers don't get death threats at home. That journalists are not killed for uncovering anomalies in all levels of government. That there are still people who sincerely believe in "the public good" as a reality instead of a hackneyed phrase only used for electioneering. And on and on and on...

You know what the really big problem is? In some ways it's a chicken-and-egg situation. A lot of these things in more civil societies work because the people also do the right thing. The rulers and the rules need to both agree to play by the rules. Or play a different game altogether.

Or maybe we will just have to kill off a lot of people if we are ever going to make any headway. Okay, maybe just make them hurt really badly. I mean, Jesus H Christ, whatever happened to the wrath of the oppressed? Imelda and Bongbong and Imee Marcos are all in government. Marcos cronies are also back by the truckload. Despite all the evidence heaped upon him, there are still people that fervently believe Erap has done no wrong. Military rabble rousers stage a military coup and they get spanked on the wrists? Why are there so many guns in Philippine society?

Hey, maybe democracy is a bit of a fucking joke if too many people are ill-informed and willing to whore out their votes. Yes, I know, poverty and all. Sack of rice more important than measly ballot paper. Yada yada.

But see what I mean, it's a sad state of affairs when you think, ah, maybe we need more democracy but that just means people are free to willingly vote for criminals that are to blame for their poverty!"

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