Quote Originally Posted by Dalak View Post



E: TIMING!


Well if they can't live up to it, edit it and pretend it's always been otherwise. It's what they do to history all the time.
What was our welfare system in 1883, when the poem was written? When the tired and poor showed up, they were welcomed. And given shovels.

As an Italian immigrant said, when recalling their early days in America, “I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, found out three things: First, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them.”