Send-A-Brick to Congress!!!

[Empath]

I've a feeling it will end up needing to go to the Underground, considering that it's of such an extreme political issue.

Political views notwithstanding, anyone planning to mail bricks to congressmen, might consider that it would likely be viewed as a suspicious package, will cost the taxpayers, and will require nothing more than a rubber stamp reading "Return To Sender", once the congressman figures it out.

 

[LifeNRA]

I see the United States like a fancy restaurant.

At first the restaurant needed patrons and advertised to get them in. Then the restaurant becomes a success and there is a line outside as people wait to get in. Later the restaurant has to take reservations so there is no pushing and shoving to get in. Those that called ahead and got a reservation and followed the rules get to eat in the restaurant. Those that come in without reservations and demand a seat are denied and should be escorted out.

Does that make any sense to anyone else but me?

 

[raggie33]

hiya nra that makes snece to me scary aint it lol.i dont realy agree with it but thats ok.i repect ya views ya are a good person

 

[LifeNRA]

hiya nra that makes snece to me scary aint it lol.i dont realy agree with it but thats ok.i repect ya views ya are a good person

Hi Rags :wave:

 

[greenLED]

I've also seen this promoted against mail marketers who send those postage pre-paid envelopes. I always thought it was an urban legend.

 

[Empath]

It's not an urban legend. Firms using pre-paid envelopes can't refuse delivery.

 

[Cyclops942]

I've also seen this promoted against mail marketers who send those postage pre-paid envelopes. I always thought it was an urban legend.

I like to run the "pre-approved" credit card applications through the shredder, put them into the postage-paid envelope, and put them in the mail. Think the sender gets the point?

 

[zespectre]

I work with the people you want to send bricks to. It won't work.
-Emails don't work (too easily filtered/deleted)
-A crowd of people protesting for one day (or even a weekend) in the street doesn't work (they know you'll go home and go right back to your previous life)
-Mailing a brick? If you are really concerned then move to one of the border states and do something.

sorry to sound so cynical but there is a protest a day here in DC and sometimes multiple ones. The locals here are like "eh, so what".

 

[chevrofreak]

That's one of the most bizarre, un-American ideas I've ever heard.....

- A security wall along the entire southern border
- Better technology for customs and border operations
- More funding and personnel for our Border Patrol
- An overall increased security presence on our southern border.

Just the southern border? Why not the northern border so we can keep out the Canadians? And while we're at it, let's seal off both coasts in case someone tries to sneak in by boat. Yeah, let's put up a big wall like the Russians did in Germany, nobody gets in or out. They should have thought of this a couple of centuries ago when our impoverished ancestors showed up.

That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it!

Are you telling me you actually support 3000 mexicans sneaking across the border each day, illegally, without going through the proper imigration channels? Each one of them costs us money and jobs for those that are legally here.

 

[Sturluson]

I think the analogy to a restaurant is pretty far off target.

It isn't just a question of obeying the rules or not obeying the rules. An obvious point: them that has the gold makes the rules. No one asked the Lakota or the Iroquois or the Creek or a hundred other tribes how they voted - the Native Americans made it abundantly clear, after they got to know them, that the Europeans were seriously ruining the neighborhood.

We consume one sixth of the world's resources. We have more wealth concentrated within our borders than any other country on earth. The vast majority of immigrants, legal or illegal, want jobs, not handouts. I'm reminded of a cartoon I saw recently that showed one effect of stopping all immigration: $200 lettuce...

No, we can't nor shouldn't stop all immigration. The economic consequences would be devastating, the moral consequences even worse. What we can do is create a sensible immigration policy that allows guest workers to enter this country to work and outlines a concrete way to become citizens.

If you want peace, work for justice.

(By the way, some of my ancestors came here after the Irish Potato Famiine in 1848, and some from England in 1634. Two separate waves of unwelcome - to someone - immigraton.)

 

[Alloy Addict]

Are you telling me you actually support 3000 mexicans sneaking across the border each day, illegally, without going through the proper imigration channels? Each one of them costs us money and jobs for those that are legally here.

If Americans don't hire them, they will stop coming illegally.

 

[Beamhead]

I work with the people you want to send bricks to. It won't work.
-Emails don't work (too easily filtered/deleted)
-A crowd of people protesting for one day (or even a weekend) in the street doesn't work (they know you'll go home and go right back to your previous life)
-Mailing a brick? If you are really concerned then move to one of the border states and do something.

sorry to sound so cynical but there is a protest a day here in DC and sometimes multiple ones. The locals here are like "eh, so what".

Thanks for verifying what I have believed for quite some time. Those people you work for are so far removed from reality it is just plain ridiculous.

A wake up call reminding the people you work for that they work for us may be the ticket.

 

[Elite Soldier]

Hi,
I'm Elite Soldier from arfcom.

Thanks for allowing me to join the discussion.
I would be happy to try to answer any questions you might have.

 

[greenLED]

It's not an urban legend. Firms using pre-paid envelopes can't refuse delivery.

Now, that's just too funny, then. I'd still feel bad doing it, though.

 

[270winchester]

That's one of the most bizarre, un-American ideas I've ever heard.....

- A security wall along the entire southern border
- Better technology for customs and border operations
- More funding and personnel for our Border Patrol
- An overall increased security presence on our southern border.

Just the southern border? Why not the northern border so we can keep out the Canadians? And while we're at it, let's seal off both coasts in case someone tries to sneak in by boat. Yeah, let's put up a big wall like the Russians did in Germany, nobody gets in or out. They should have thought of this a couple of centuries ago when our impoverished ancestors showed up.

That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it!

LAst time I checked there aren't tens of millions of illegal Canadians in our country. You don't pay a plastic surgeon big bucks to enhance your eyelids when you have liver cancer, that's just common sense, not discrimination against liver cancer cells or favoritism toward eyelids.

It's easy to be liberal and say it doesn't matter. But it does and it hits home. Unless you are well off then it won't matter to you...

your opinion works well until someone out there realizes: "hey, they took my job".