Getting real
Amid all the nonsense being spouted from all directions about immigration, at long last here is a realistic program for dealing with the immigration crisis.
Consider me on board, Mayor Bloomberg- RINO that you are. As you rightly say, it's time to get real.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Consider me on board, Mayor Bloomberg- RINO that you are. As you rightly say, it's time to get real.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Comments
This applies to all parties. Mostly to us. Being principled doesn't allow racism, and it doesn't allow massive government holdings of property. If 50 million Chinese want to come here and make the deserts bloom, More power to 'em!
Most of the problems I hear people talking about are in our own systems. When you scratch the surface, people who are afraid of a takeover are really afraid of what our handouts will result in. Stop them! The people coming in arent't the problem. We have Robin Hood as our party bouncer. And when he (the government) fails to stop people at the door, he robs the folks already present to give to those who have just arrived. The problem isn't the guests. It's the bouncer who wants to ingratiate himself to the guests.
I'm not sure that government owning property per se is a bad thing; the question is whether that ownership has a legitimate connection to a valid activity of government. And it's not the social benefits which bring illegal immigrants here. Moreover, in our modern society, there may be certain areas- health care, for example- in which the government will have to play Robin Hood more often. Moreover, one of the underlying myths of this whole debate is that "stopping people at the door" is physically possible, at least in the numbers they are coming.
Which is why our efforts to do that have to be supplimented with measures such as the President has proposed, and which Mayor Bloomberg has laid out in more specific and practical ways.
Racism is indeed part of the problem.
More, I think, is an unwillingness on both sides of the argument specifically to "get real-" to recognize what is possible and what is not, and what it will take to make desirable approaches feasible, and then getting together to make it happen.