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Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don't you want to get new Americans in who aren't going to be? | |
I'm serious. | |
You can make a case that this is going on too long and this is too crazy probably and I hope this thing isn't being videotaped or ever shown anywhere. | |
Whatever tiny pathetic future I have is going to be totally collapsed. | |
You can make a case that America has been great because every... | |
I think John Adams said this at the beginning, right? | |
Basically, if you're in a free society, a capitalist society, after two, three, four generations of hard work, everyone becomes kind of decadent, lazy, spoiled, whatever. | |
And then luckily, you have these waves of people coming in from Italy and Ireland and Russia and now Mexico who really want to work hard and really want to succeed and really want their kids to live better lives than them and aren't sort of clipping coupons or hoping that they can hang on and meanwhile grew up with spoiled kids and so forth. | |
So in that respect... |