tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7003224763980521988..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: How to Import Child-PovertyStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85253601772120079972017-11-26T16:24:12.395-08:002017-11-26T16:24:12.395-08:00TW, do I get to be a Leftist? You'll have to t...TW, do I get to be a Leftist? You'll have to tell my friends. I guess neo-Mathusians can be on the left and the right.<br /><br />Anyway if Leftists believe primarily in family planning and the equal access to education for girls and Rightists believe primarily in borders and guns to protect ourselves from the illiterate masses, I'd put at least as much money on the first as the second. And I am glad the new Pope said people no longer need to breed like rabbits, and Latin America is largely Catholic.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48800090349055916142017-11-26T11:32:02.245-08:002017-11-26T11:32:02.245-08:00May be the The New Colossus on the Statue of Liber...May be the The New Colossus on the Statue of Liberty no longer applies like it did 150 years ago "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." We're no longer a largely agrarian society where subsistence farming can raise a family.<br /><br />I also recall that the first effect of the NAFTA agreement was to export cheap agricultural food imports from America, leading to food prices dropping to the point that subsistence farmers of Mexico couldn't make a living, and they were forced to move their families to the cities where their income could be higher, but their cost of living increased more. And I suppose the migration to the U.S., legally and undocumented also was a search for opportunity, and low skill work means cheap labor for food harvesting that can't yet be done by machines, and still again, a land where the cost of living is higher, so people doing "needed work" still can't earn an income to raise children above poverty.<br /><br />So maybe the answer is that we need to keep low-skill laborers out of the country, and then crops will go unpicked until growers are willing to pay enough that domestic workers are willing to do the necessary work. <br /><br />In any case, it seems unlikely that uneducated parents who do such menial work have no aspirations for their children to find better work. The opposite seems more likely.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67857766180120316682017-11-26T07:28:40.298-08:002017-11-26T07:28:40.298-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com