poem - bad taste?

[Dogwatcher]

I received this poem on email and thought it was in pretty bad taste.
Am interested to see what other people think though.




I come for visit, get treated regal, So I stay, who care I illegal?
I cross ocean, poor and broke. Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there. Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, "You come no more. We send cash right to your
door."
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy. Medicaid it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money, Thanks to you, 'Stralian dummy.
Write to friends in motherland. Tell them come as fast as you can.

They come in turbans and Ford trucks. I buy big house with welfare
bucks.
They come here, we live together. More welfare checks, it gets
better!
Fourteen families they moving in. But neighbour's patience wearing
thin.
Finally, white guy moves away. Now I buy his house, and then I say,
"Find more aliens for house to rent." And in the yard I put
a tent.
Send for family (they just trash). But they, too, draw the welfare
cash!
Everything is very good, And soon we own the neighbourhood.

We have hobby - it's called breeding, Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills!
Australian crazy! He pay all year, to keep welfare running here.
We think 'Stralia darn good place! Too darn good for the white man
race.
If they no like us, they can scram. Got lots of room in Pakistan
etc. etc.

SEND THIS TO EVERY AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYER YOU KNOW

 

[BluesBabe666]

Its probably in bad taste, but it doesnt offend me because i agree with alot of it. Not a debate i get into tho, its too sensitive for some people. (not me, others)

 

[PrideofSA]

Originally posted by BluesBabe666
Its probably in bad taste, but it doesnt offend me because i agree with alot of it. Not a debate i get into tho, its too sensitive for some people. (not me, others)

lol, it is risky isn't it, but an element of truth about it!

 

[Stucey]

Just a funny peom if you ask me. This situation would not happen in real life though.

 

[Pessimistic]

Originally posted by Dogwatcher
I received this poem on email and thought it was in pretty bad taste.
Am interested to see what other people think though.

Written by a convict in 1788 ?




I come for visit, get treated regal, So I stay, who care I illegal?
I cross ocean, poor and broke. Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there. Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, "You come no more. We send cash right to your
door."
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy. Medicaid it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money, Thanks to you, 'Stralian dummy.
Write to friends in motherland. Tell them come as fast as you can.

They come in turbans and Ford trucks. I buy big house with welfare
bucks.
They come here, we live together. More welfare checks, it gets
better!
Fourteen families they moving in. But neighbour's patience wearing
thin.
Finally, white guy moves away. Now I buy his house, and then I say,
"Find more aliens for house to rent." And in the yard I put
a tent.
Send for family (they just trash). But they, too, draw the welfare
cash!
Everything is very good, And soon we own the neighbourhood.

We have hobby - it's called breeding, Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills!
Australian crazy! He pay all year, to keep welfare running here.
We think 'Stralia darn good place! Too darn good for the white man
race.
If they no like us, they can scram. Got lots of room in Pakistan
etc. etc.

SEND THIS TO EVERY AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYER YOU KNOW

 

[sussudio]

sounds like a Kevin Bloody Wilson song

 

[SonOfScray]

its pretty funny actually, there is nothing wrong with having a dig at the situation (as long as it is in jest and not borne of racist hatred)

 

[fabulousphil]

Originally posted by BluesBabe666
Its probably in bad taste, but it doesnt offend me because i agree with alot of it.

Agreed.

There is a term they use in America and could possibly be applied to OZ " white flight " which in simple terms means white folk or usually middle class families moving further and further from the cities to the outer suburbs and semi rural areas to be away from migrant ghettoes and crime etc etc etc.

It is not a new thing as it has happened to italian and irish immigrants to both america and australia---there children who are probably better educated seek to get out of the city to the burbs and are replaced by a new wave of immigrants.

The only difference i can see is that these new immigrants are treated with far more suspicion because of there different culture and religion. It is very hard not to but im sure they see us as a soft touch.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by PrideofSA



lol, it is risky isn't it, but an element of truth about it!

Not even close. Stories of people landing on the shores and getting fat off welfare are apocryphal at best, it just doesn't happen.

If anyone comes to this country and makes money, it's beacuse they bloody work hard for it because they aren't likely to waste the chance they've been given, most of the time the so called 'migrants' bludging off the system are the no hoper second generation children who've been spoilt.

I used to get peeved at my parents.. if we were driving along and they'd see an Asian man driving a BMW, they'd make comments like "well we were born here where's our nice car".. FFS, perhaps he went to uni and studied his arse off and is a computer programmer, who knows? Immigrants aren't just 'given fancy cars and flash houses.

The poem isn't even mildly amusing, obviously written by a redneck who is angry at their own life falling apart and looking for a scapegoat.

</rant mode>

 

[fabulousphil]

Originally posted by Docker_Brat


Not even close. Stories of people landing on the shores and getting fat off welfare are apocryphal at best, it just doesn't happen.

If anyone comes to this country and makes money, it's beacuse they bloody work hard for it because they aren't likely to waste the chance they've been given, most of the time the so called 'migrants' bludging off the system are the no hoper second generation children who've been spoilt.

I used to get peeved at my parents.. if we were driving along and they'd see an Asian man driving a BMW, they'd make comments like "well we were born here where's our nice car".. FFS, perhaps he went to uni and studied his arse off and is a computer programmer, who knows? Immigrants aren't just 'given fancy cars and flash houses.

The poem isn't even mildly amusing, obviously written by a redneck who is angry at their own life falling apart and looking for a scapegoat.

</rant mode>

Most european migrants who came here after WW2 were indentured which meant that for a couple of years they had to perform work on such things as the snowy mountains scheme to pay off there passage before they could bring their family out and they worked hard and helped build OZ into a great and lucky country.

That doesnt happen these days and i feel a lot of them (just my perception ) just take OZ for granted and because of their different culture and religion dont intergrate as well as they could, after all they are coming to our country but it is us bending over backwards to help them.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by fabulousphil


Most european migrants who came here after WW2 were indentured which meant that for a couple of years they had to perform work on such things as the snowy mountains scheme to pay off there passage before they could bring their family out and they worked hard and helped build OZ into a great and lucky country.

That doesnt happen these days and i feel a lot of them (just my perception ) just take OZ for granted and because of their different culture and religion dont intergrate as well as they could, after all they are coming to our country but it is us bending over backwards to help them.

I'm just sick of the perception that life is made so easy for immigrants, I would much rather be on this side of the fence than be in the shoes of someone coming to this country.

 

[sandeano]

So, Stan Zemanak is spamming the net these days, is he?