We have to do whatever we must do for the short term as we are where we are but I never suggested that working harder in order to earn more money was a solution to anything! In fact, that is part of the problem rather than the solution! We DO need to work harder at properly supervising our employees in government. MUCH harder!
It has been said by others long before now much better than I can say it. Read the following and point out to me where these folks were wrong.
"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed upon your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, 'just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make the administer the laws." Noah Webster, 1832
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. …They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs."--Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations [1776]
And then there is this:
"A people may want a free government, but if, from insolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by monetary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions; in all of these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty; and though it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely to long enjoy it." - John Stuart Mill - Essay on Representative Government
2) Was Ted Kennedy's "Immigration Reform Act of 1986" the answer? (IRCA)
3) Now that we have Kennedy's disgraceful Act—which discouraged English-speakers—is our national IQ soaring?
Hardly. While we need to instill a proper educational psyche in our children, we also need to encourage a "brainy" immigration policy to keep up with our "Darwin-deficit". (Drugs, sex, rock&roll, and who-knows-what about Illegals).
3) Illegal immigration isn't just "running across the border"—it's also overstaying visas. No fence will cure that.
Look, we're not going to reclaim our lost manufacturing base anytime soon. This country remains the best marketing environment for goods and services in the world. To maintain or exceed our present excellent—and very low—jobless environment, we need to "seed" our high-tech with brains.
Who knows, some may marry Americans, and give Darwin a boost: And the US a new citizen—and a smart one at that!
All these complaints to JasonC are sounding like neo-isolationism.
What happens if this country "unionizes" its entire job market?