The intended audience for this drivel are not very bright either. It takes little imagination to spur them into a handclapping frenzy.
The southern states have a much higher standard of living than the northern states actually. GDP per capita is kind of meaningless which not considering cost of living. You can drop 3-400k easy in NYC or cali and live in a shack, while the same amount in Atlanta or Austin would have you living like a king... The salary differences pretty much even out after taxes are taken into account. Most blue states are a ripoff.
It's about culture, not religion. I believe Gillard is open about her atheism. I wouldn't move to Saudi Arabia and begrudge their Islamic culture and customs. They shouldn't move to a western nation and begrudge it's culture and customs. As she clearly specified, her statement was not religious in nature.
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ 65k years ago, we crossed the seas, with the hope to live in love, peace and harmony with the creatures and the creation in the real of the dream. Yet 200 years ago "they" came, to destroy it. "They" wanted to create the "exploitation" on the Land of the Dream. We could have teach them if they wanted... however they didn't listen. Thinking "they" were "smarter"...Smarter than us maybe, than the Dream, Never ! Fine, "they" will exprience the Nightmare. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ At the first hour of the morning all was clear as the sky above my head. When I came to Arabia, I saw Arabs When I came to Africa, I saw Africans When I came to China, I saw Chineses When I came to Australia, I did not saw Australians...
You are entirely missing the point. Gillard did not say this stuff. Asserting that she did is lying. Neither did her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to whom these statements have also been attributed. You may think that lying is just fine in pursuit of of some bizarre ideology but I do not. Repeating lies over and over never makes them true but that is the standard operating procedure of the lunatic US right.
Whether or not she said it doesn't change the validity of the statement, whoever said it. I never lied about this whatsoever, and the point of whether or not the statement is factual is not the basis of the debate. You accusation that I am "lying in pursuit of some bizarre ideology" is absurd, as if *I* am the one who circulated this article. LMAO! Further, I don't think discouraging the immigration of people who are hostile to your culture is a "bizarre ideology". I didn't repeat any of this, I'm debating the merit of it's content. If anyone is operating in the realm of lunacy here, it's you. You are just making things up as you go along. The merit of the statement stands regardless of who said it.
Good for you! You'd never make it as a Democrat/Libturd. They wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass. Of what significance is the "lunatic ANYTHING/ANYBODY"?
Yes , it is, or you wouldn't have produced such a pathetic reply. Specific references to things about a culture and God or Christian or Christians or Moslims or Islam , are about the culture and about religion. Get over it.