Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork Orange
You're putting a spin on it.
Don't be ridiculous. You're cut and pasting from a right-wing 'newspaper' with a notorious anti-immigration editorial stance and I'm putting a spin on it!? You'll have to do better than that. And certainly better than this:

Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork Orange
mug old ladies on pension day
emotive hyperbole and melodramatic nonsense. In fact actually only one step up the rung from accusing Asian immigrants for being responsible for the mysterious spate of household pets disappearing.

Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork Orange
Immigrants from New Zealand & don't sit begging in front of cash machines or mug old ladies on pension day. I would also stick my neck out & guess not a penny of that four billion spent on crime, race relations, asylum support, English lessons & security is nothing to do with any Australian.
The point is that they have included 'immigrants' from New Zealand, Australia, and undoubtably other such 'acceptable' nations in the calculations and pointedly haven't included workings as to what immigrants contribute to the economy.