Quoth Steven Linnaberry: > I am a bit disgusted with the LP's lack of involvement with the recent pro > immigration demonstrations.
I think the LP is in a curious and uncomfortable place with respect to the issue. On the one hand, the current administration is actually trying to move things in the right direction, and opposition parties generally don't like (for good reasons) to give their opponents credit, especially if the move is incremental rather than total. On the other hand, the LP has a fairly vocal anti-immigration minority and immigration is one of those issues where we've "agreed to disagree" for long enough that there's probably a hesitancy to piss that minority off by jumping in on the right side with both feet. And, finally, it's sort of a moot point. Immigrants have been coming to the US for two centuries and they'll keep coming for as long as they feel like coming. As they have since the beginning, immigrants pay more in taxes, consume less in "social benefits," and commit fewer crimes than "natives," effectively subsidizing our pretensions to national greatness and carrying us on their economic backs. There will always be yahoos who want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, but they'll never prevail. The only question is how much taxpayer money will be wasted making the yahoos feel like they're in control and more "special" than the "wetbacks." Tom Knapp ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
