Re: Cultural preferences inconsistent with fascism?(Re:Psychic TV — worth seeing?
On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
You can start by not sweating the small stuff. The borders of the
US are essentially open at this point anyway….
Not really. The borders are patrolled, and foreigners have to contend
with crap like USA Visit. People here illegally are under constant
threat of deportation, and won’t ever be eligible to collect Social
Security or Medicare benefits, despite often paying into the system.
And if we had a more expansive welfare state - with more generous
income supports, or, heaven forfend, an active labor market policy
like in Sweden - how could you administer that? Make everyone who
shows up eligible? And if we had, heaven forfend, more economic
planning, what would the scope of that be? Who would administer, and
how, infrastructure investment or publicly funded child care in the
countries our immigrants come from, like Mexico or the Dominican
Republic?
Doug