Word: kinsleys
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...Fighting the Fiscal Fix It's not often that I agree with michael Kinsley, but his Essay opposing a fiscal stimulus was a winner [Feb. 4]. For years we have overspent on oversize homes, flat-screen TVs and gas-guzzling SUVs, with little regard for our ability to pay for them. Now it's time for the people and the government to break the addiction. Kent Nash, HENDERSON...
...school. Which did not stop me from placing my bet. Because real gambling isn't about the odds; it's about the personal narrative you want to project?which, for me, is my need to root for the overeducated élite in everything. Except, of course, when Michael Kinsley's columns beat mine on the Time.com "most e-mailed" list. Don't make me write about the Oscars too, Mike...
...Michael Kinsley's article in immigration is enlightening, but it doesn't address the core problem: What should we do with the millions of illegal immigrants who are already in our country [Dec. 17]? It would be easy to think that we could wipe the slate clean, send everyone home, establish a threshold for the number of immigrants we want and create an orderly process for admission. Obviously, this will never happen. Why not admit that allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. provides cheap labor to fuel our country's economic growth? Illegal immigrants are here because...
...Kinsley's perspective-that the debate is not about illegal immigration but about immigration--might be accurate. But the negative impact of millions of immigrants on our crowded schools, strained social services and insufficient infrastructure is real and shows that we already have too many immigrants in the country. Regarding his assertion that illegal immigrants do our dirty work, there are plenty of legal residents who would take those jobs if not for illegal immigrants who are willing to work for almost nothing, creating unfair competition for U.S. citizens...
...immigrants I know the sacrifices immigrants make and their benefit for this country. Kinsley mentioned the Americans who strongly oppose illegal immigration. How about the Americans who want to prove their open-mindedness by ignoring this problem? If I can understand that immigrants must be processed and checked for disease, then certainly U.S.-born citizens can too. Anyone can flaunt his politically correct chutzpah, but it doesn't change the fact that a country without borders isn't really a country...