>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>>If the USA were really "the greatest country in the world," we'd have
>>the shortest hours of work and the highest living standard. However,
>>we have yet to win the Gold Medal in the Working-Day Olympics, the
>>Health Care Olympics, the Education Olympics, and so on and so forth.
>
>Well, the nice WHITE (or at least they want to stay that way as much as
>possible) social democracies of Europe are trying to hold onto those
>statistics by pulling up the drawbridges to keep the brown hordes out-- see
>today's announcement from Britain and the shift of governments to the Right
>across Europe. While in the United States, after the failed lurch towards
>anti-immigrant hysteria of Prop 187, a solid consensus towards welcoming
>roughly 1 million new immigrants a year (legal and illegal) has basically
>been reestablished.
The welfare state and open borders are incompatible, both in capitalist and socialist nations, in the capitalist world economy. -- Yoshie
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