tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45576766608130763722008-05-03T09:04:00.000-07:002008-05-03T09:04:00.000-07:00b durbin, you have no clue. You think Chileans are remotely the same thing as Mexicans and Central Americans who make up the great majority of recent Latino immigrants, just because they both speak Spanish? Wrong. Chileans are racially and culturally different from them.<BR/><BR/>If you want assimilation, explain how the 34% of Californian children who are white are supposed to assimilate the 46% who are Hispanic:<BR/><BR/>http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?ind=7&cat=1&rgn=6<BR/><BR/>Steve Wood, it's true that your apartment's landscaping would be more expensive without Hispanic immigrants, but so what? Nobody needs landscaping. Plant something simple like some hardy grasses that can be automated by an automated sprinkling system and mowed twice a month (there are robotic lawnmowers that work pretty well nowadays), and it won't really matter. Or just install a hardscape. This may not be to your aesthetic preference, but I doubt that living in a barrio or a favela would be either. Cheap landscaping isn't worth selling out our country.<BR/><BR/>What's more, Hispanics, like everyone else, stimulate the demand side of the economy too. They make crowded cities more crowded, and they have more mouths and gas tanks to feed. And your landscapers are almost certainly using Medicaid, WIC and other taxpayer funded programs. Whether you're coming out ahead in the end is questionable.c23noreply@blogger.com