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Originally Posted by tw
Well MaggieL, if your only response is to insult...
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I didn't insult
you.
(As an aside, I insulted the ignorant who say "begs the question" when they mean "raises the question" rather than "assumes the truth of the proposition at issue", which is what the phrase means. You didn't do that. Did you? Or did you just go off half-cocked again?)
My answer to "Why are there illegal aliens in the US?" was "Because there's poverty in Mexico". My answer to "Why is illegal immigration necessary?" was "It isn't necessary". Sorry if you don't like my answers, or if they don't lead the discourse where you want it to go, but that doesn't entitle you to ignore them and then rant that they're unanswered.
I don't buy the idea that a Big Mac would cost the same everywhere if there werent evil men manipulating markets. There are other factors at work. Jared Diamond explores some of them in "Guns, Germs and Steel", although I certainly don't buy into
all of his explanations