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So you admit you don’t have the $$$s to pay for it. I guess you will build your own addition to your house? Wait…that sounds like too much money. |
I am definitely lower middle class. Maybe even whatever class is lower than that?
What’s your point, exactly? That we can’t afford to hire “help”? Well duh, Captain Obvious. But even if we could, we still wouldn’t, because it’s illegal and wrong. But it’s telling about you that you think the only difference between you and I is money. We couldn’t be any more different. |
Correct. We don’t have the money, so we do it ourselves. I’m not sure why you think that’s something we should be embarrassed about. I’m a teacher. My H is a county firefighter. What do we have to be ashamed about in your eyes? |
I assume there are plenty of differences…but it seems like your decision not to hire these services is really a financial issue and not a moral one. FWIW, you are one of the few on DCUM highlighting your LMC status…didn’t think they existed. |
You seem to be blaming immigrants for keeping all these services in business (why is that a bad thing?)…yet most of the owners are blue collar white people that you probably admire. |
Yes, let's build the biggest prison in US history right inside the District. Then let's wipe our a55es with the First, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments, for starters, as El Salvador does and commit massive human rights abuses. That'll fly in the US! Great idea! |
What about our human rights not to live in a crime-infested sh!thole? |
I really wonder if there will be a tipping point in the United States if crime keeps getting more and more out of control without any consequences for most criminals. I spoke with some friend that have family in El Salvador. Their family is thrilled with President Bukele. They used to be afraid to walk around at night and even during the day because they were afraid they would be robbed or killed. So many store owners were being extorted, girls were getting kidnapped and raped, carjackings, robberies, etc. Now everyone can walk anywhere in El Salvador and not worry about getting robbed, assaulted or killed. His approval rating is through the roof. The president of El Salvador is really popular in other Latin American countries and there is now a movement called Bukelismo that calls for more countries to be tough on crime for the good of the majority. |
| That pesky US Constitution, what a pain. |
People said the said the same thing about serfs, helots, slaves, peasants, etc... None of those systems worked in the long run, mostly failing in spectacular fashion and at great human cost. There is nothing more costly than cheap labor. |
OP here. I wrote this post as a resident of SE DC out of lament that crime is skyrocketing in our city, but because of progressive criminal justice reform from the last few years and shrill harpy cries from naive idealists who attend our ANC and city council member meetings or lobby them for lenient policies (for example the youth rehab act, second look act, allowing dangerous speeders with tens of thousands to not lose their license for any reason, or simply allowing shoplifting to happen) we are too kneecapped by political correctness and shaming to actually crack down on crime like El Salvador. People become indignant and appalled when someone says “lock them up.” It’s clearly working in El Salvador. I am not saying abandon due process. I am simply saying stop with the permissive bullsht. Implement broken windows policing. Hire more officers. Get an AG that actually prosecutes. Fix the crime lab. Basically, do what it takes. I’m really sorry the statistics of arrests aren’t great. That sucks. You know what else sucks? The city getting boarded up and people smoking crack on the street like they did in 1991. Maybe we should not let the city return to that? Yeah? I’m sick of these weak willed bleeding heart crime apologists. Fking do something. Look at El Salvador. |
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What exactly is this obsession you seem to have with poor-shaming us? I am not the least bit ashamed that we earn less than you, and I would love to hear your reasoning as to why we should. And our decision not to hire illegal immigrants for home services has everything to do with moral grounds, not financial. I can say that with certainty, because even if we earned double our income, we still wouldn’t - because it’s just wrong. We’re a union household, both of us. And hiring illegals hurts union workers by depressing the wage floor in occupations where union labor used to ensure a fair wage for working people. You assume that we are different because you’re wealthy and we’re not. That’s not why. |