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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951107113221.8407B-100000@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu> Neil <neilends@gas.uug.arizona.edu> writes:
>> 
>> You missed my point entirely.  
>> 
>> I was not arguing about whether "my parents deserve a better life" - 
>> where did 
>> you get that from?  I was taking issue with her claim that her immigrant 
>> parents had no assistance from Canadian taxpayers when they arrived in 
>> Canada. 
>> They had considerable benefits from the generations which preceded them.
>> 
>> That was the full extent of my argument, for which I make no apologies - I 
>> don't understand where you get all that other stuff.

>My problem is with your attitude, which is what I was responding to, 
>rather than the specific statements you made. While she may be wrong in 
>saying that her parents received no benefits from the Canadian system in 
>general when they arrived here, your attitude that Canada somehow did 
>them an extra favour by providing them with "running water" and "paved 
>roads" is what bothers me.

That's not what I was saying at all.  I took great pains to say that I was 
glad her parents were welcomed to Canada -- but that I just wanted her to 
acknowledge that they "had a little help from their friends (the Canadian 
taxpayers" -- something she pretends didn't happen when she begrudges 
assistance to today's immigrants.

You cut out the part of my note which said I was glad her grandparents were 
welcomed to this country -- and it is unfair to comment about my "attitude" 
without including that passage.