Foreign applications for post-secondary education are also down by a chunk. Without them we don't function well because our schools are so incredibly shitty, and getting more and more shittier. Of course, our kids are making wonderful McDonalds and Wal-Mart employees, they just aren't at the level of foreign educated kids.
America is not a friendly place for foreigners to be right now. You've got the vocal neo-con fascists out there preaching intolerance and hatred. They strut around, blustering about how great we are, without realizing we look like a pack of loons to the rest of the world. And our domestic policies...don't get me started on an entire government -neocons and liberals included- devoted to making the wealthy more wealthy. Stunning! Absolutely stunning!
I was mighty disgusted when I heard this story on the radio this morning. Thanks Bush, for destroying even the fantasy that we're a great nation, welcoming to immigrants as the statue of liberty symbolizes.
Posted by Sharon at March 2, 2005 08:38 AMHell, I don't want to be here anymore.
Posted by Judith at March 2, 2005 12:17 PMMuch as I love to visit the usa, NOTHING will induce me to set foot over that border now.
and I'm not the only one.
nobody wants to go near the evil empire.
do you guys realize many, many people feel this way?
sad but true. wonder if you care, sincerely hope you do..
Posted by canuck at March 2, 2005 01:19 PMAsylum seekers are going to France? Doesn't France have the highest unemployment rate in Europe and the French relatively don't have to worry about work because the French government can take care of them. Can I be an asylum seeker?
Posted by Enigma America at March 2, 2005 03:19 PMAmerica is not a friendly place for foreigners to be right now. Posted by phidipides
The Bushista sturmabteilungen make American an unfriendly place for Americans as well.
Can I be an asylum seeker? Posted by Enigma America
If you are an American in Bush's Amerika, yes. Just as some people left Germany in the early 30's, some are emigrating from the U.S. now. The problem for them is the decline of the dollar against the euro.
Well, my Sister and her husband travel to Taxco every year to do business and then vacation for a week or more in a small fishing village unheard of by tourists. Depending on what happens in the next four years or sooner, I may be headed for Mexico.
Posted by Judith at March 2, 2005 04:42 PM