Conservative Promotes Racial Divisions to Undermine Welfare State

[Max Sawicky]

He's right that *in and of itself* ethnic
homogeneity is conducive to social welfare activism.
That doesn't mean that more immigration would make a
difference.
For one thing, more immigration might make California
more homogenous, not less; for two, where a threshold
of social fragmentation is passed, more immigrants
would not make a difference, and their involvement
in labor would favor a progressive result.

The only reason to want to control immigration is
for labor defense reasons.  Lind is wrong about
the public sector effect; immigrants are net
contributors to the public sector, not net
recipients.  People forget the bias in public
expenditures towards the elderly, and most
immigrants are young.

mbs

An interesting little article arguing for conservatives to promote
multicultural divisions and immigration to undermine the welfare state,
since conservatives can count on racism to keep people from identifying with
the poor of other races.  Nice sometimes to see racist strategy so clearly
expressed-- Nathan

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"My Trial Balloon: Immigrants and socialism."
Source: National Review Online
Published: 18 July 2001 Author: Jonah Goldberg