In These Times

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• • 22 Oct 06
  • 10:09 am

  This year is 1928, after Congress repealed, rightly or wrongly, essentially open immigration. The relevancy of the article is dubious. Nice people can be illegal aliens. Of course they can be. That is not why nations regulate borders and immigration. The implication of publication of the article is that this family turned out to be a great addition to america, so all illegal immigrants should be let in. Absurd. A systematic policy is required to allow immigration. we don't have that now. we have the right to decide that some people are wanted and others aren't. nice people will thus be …

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• • 22 Oct 06
  • 10:18 am

  colleges recently have been handing out billions scholarships most of which are not need based. I.e., middle and upper income kids get lots of money. Now I'm not rich, and I would love a college to pay for my kids' education(they are not A students, and they dont' do anything brilliantly!). shouldn't money be doled out by colleges primarily on financial aid? That 's how it used to be, and it allowed some social mobiltiy in America. As I understand it, the gap between the highest earners and the rest of us in America is greater than ever.

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