[lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration

[Jordan Hayes]

> The keener view IMHO is that this overcrowding is desirable
> to the ruling elite because it will run the programs into the
> ground and it will cleanse the population of the most ill
> i.e., most costly.

This sounds like Yogi Bera's "No one eats there anymore, it's too 
crowded" ... how can encouraging overcrowding cleanse the population of 
the most ill?  This is akin to eating until your stomach bursts to stop 
you from getting fat: along the way, you're going to be pretty big.  And 
probably for quite a while!