If Spokane had a statue of liberty its plaque might read: "Give me your tired of commuting, your rich, your businesspeople yearning to break free of taxes and the refuse of the shores.
Your plaintive, yearning creature, your nymph or naiad, is turning into some horrible, saliva-dripping alien".
He recasts the West's message to Russian oligarchs wanting to immigrate: "give me your rich, your sated, yearning to breathe safe".
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Give me your tired, your bored, Your bookworm masses, yearning to read free, The wretched refuse of your teeming blog.
By Eric Lach October 29, 2009 Give me your tired, your bored, Your bookworm masses, yearning to read free, The wretched refuse of your teeming blog.
America was once the land of Lady Liberty, beckoning the world: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
THE inscription on the Statue of Liberty is quietly being rewritten: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; I'll also take your skilled employees under the temporary visa program, H-1B".
