Sad & Disappointed: Immigration - Revisited
Given what has transpired in Syria, Turkey, Hungary, Germany, etc. over the past several weeks, have anyone's views on immigration changed?
My views have only been strengthened by the chaos happening in those countries. The freedom of those people to travel has resulted in the latest easily anticipated "crisis" for a number of countries, each of which is now expected to altruistically allow refugees in.
My views have only been strengthened by the chaos happening in those countries. The freedom of those people to travel has resulted in the latest easily anticipated "crisis" for a number of countries, each of which is now expected to altruistically allow refugees in.
Khalling said that what I wanted was a club, not a nation. I won't disagree with that. Because the concepts of individual rights are neither taught nor expected, the country to which immigrants are traveling must expect to attract moochers, rather than producers.
What I am arguing for is that a country must set standards for what is acceptable behavior, or else its welcome mat will be trampled over. The country must set standards for a value-for-value exchange with the immigrant, or else the country's citizenry will become fodder (pun intended for Hungary) for the invading multitudes.
In the whirling Heraclitean flux which is the pragmatist’s universe, there are no absolutes. There are no facts, no fixed laws of logic, no certainty, no objectivity. -- http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pra...
[The Pragmatists] declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness (between the perceived and the perceiver), there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,” and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, provided it works or makes one feel better. -- http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pra...
In this immigration debate, my absolute is "No moochers allowed." For most of the people I am not in complete agreement with, their absolute is "Everyone has the right to travel unimpeded." Reconciling those competing absolutes is possible, but not easy. I think the US got this balance right prior to 1900 and perhaps a little later than that.
you apparently are evil for fleeing this
Rand was an illegal immigrant and violated both her code and mine to do so. She intentionally deceived.
Regarding the tax issue, I am an owner, and I expect to pay some limited taxes to a limited government.