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caught -> RE: May Day March (5/6/2009 3:36:08 PM)
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I see the problem as not one of national interest, but as a test of not only the rights of citizens, but also a measure of the economic opportunity available to each same citizen. The controversy should be described as the illegals squandering opportunity. The distinction between a Mexican and an American owner of a company leveraging illegals are nil in this context: each breaks the law and ruins opportunity by distorting the labor market in, for instance, the trades, in home construction etc. The solution may be in part security: illegals happen because of a pervasively corrupt border area, itself born of the layers and layers of sustained coercion and violence characteristic of the powerful "Drug War." Each of these problems, even the distant ones, contribute in total, to a net loss of opportunity for all.
This is a kinda network-centric way of understanding the problems we face, whch are often dramatized into the varieties of propaganda familiar to us: the tale is the outright criminality of the Mexicans, whove slaughted 10,000s of Americans, or the new one about the guns flowing south. I think the aggressive, rebuild-America-into-the-Supranational-Powerhouse perspective will take note of these propaganda, but understand that our harm and our ruins are not only bad in trial-lawyer-enabling legal context, but are also bad in the economic context where we've lost opportunity because of illegals, or because of their costs to our hospitals etc. You can get exercised over each, even become an activist for one of these causes, but the political strategy needed to win in each is anti-Democratic. You have to hope to hack your way into media exposure and publicity, as well as opportunistic politicians. I think any analysis or measurse that reflects available opportunity, on a wide scale, will achieve the broadest political consensus.
Ultimately, the instabilities inherent in the world may only increase. We need to consider adaptation as a virtue in this coming age, so great are the historical forces joining our own. I think what this means is that we must build an economy where we've an abundance of growing wealth, of growing opportunity. And so that we build in capacity for illegals. We need to be much more clever than our petulant media and politicians make it seem.
Specific policy proscriptions that may truly fix the opportunity issue?
-Education, Education, Education: Keep Americans learning, structure universities to enable broader market for education. Expand the public investment in Education. Push system-engineering understanding of energy. use all our wiz-bang media-rich applications to make learning basics trivial.
-Continually test and pursue local investments in self-sufficiency, building layers of resiliency, sources of income, backup capacities etc. This would include utilizing cheap technologies to expand our productivity. Every citizen a gardener, and/or fabricator etc. We all need to become like Toyota, basically.
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