1. Your equation of your desire for consumer goods you can't afford with life saving health care others desperately need is morally grotesque.

2. Instead of mocking the idea of hospitality, which you clearly don't understand, you might want to research its distinguished philosophical history. Begin with Kant's great essays "Perpetual Peace" and "Notes for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View." Then move into the current discussions in the field by reading Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, Paul Gilroy, Martha Nussbaum, Kwame Appiah, among others. Then you might have something of value to contribute to a discussion.

3. Your sad and pathetic notion that the US, the richest, most powerful nation ever to exist, is somehow victimized by undocumented immigrants is laughable. Our international financial policies alone have driven more than 2 million Mexican farmers off of their land, but I guess they're not posting facts like that on JihadWatch. But conservatives like you love to play the victim. It gives them a reason to go online.

4. Any knucklehead knows that taxing income is regressive if wealth is untaxed no matter how you in your febrile mind slice and dice it. Read the late Jefferson and Adams letters on the necessity for taxing wealth. They're basic reading, and most conservatives know them backward and forward, so I'm frankly surprised you don't.

5. Rather than do any of the above, you will continue to post your empty rants, your increasingly shrill and repetitive demands for luxuries you can't attain on your own. ("Repeat after me you," posted above. Why? You do nothing but repeat yourself over and over and over.)

Although, in ways you also illustrate what arguing.

You say, "I'm just a guy with a family and a job and some bills."  But that, Pancho, however right it feels to say it, is nevertheless untrue.  You, like me, are likely a guy who shops for the best deals he can get.  And then if you have a small child like I do, you were probably alarmed when the story about Lead in the Toys broke.  Yet we are complicit in the tragedies.  Let the companies make their toys here, tax the bejeezuz out of them if they manufacture abroad.  Pay American workers high wages and charge concordanmtly high prices for the toys.

You write off lettuce as though it were only lettuce.  But Lettuce in the context of what we are arguing here is a figurative word.  Yea, even a poetic word.  Think about it before you go cairicaturing me.  After all, for all you know I might be someone you once did drugs with.  

Often you post here lamenting the illegal immigration issue.  I can only assume you are among those who would favor deportations and closing down the employers who use illegal Mexican labor.  But have you really considered, are you really willing to adopt to the changes that would lie in store?  Pay top dollar for lettuce, for toys, etc?  

And BTW do you really think for a single second that the economic power running this nation would ever permit such a thing to happen?  Good luck with that one.