“Decent Human Beings”
Tony Blankley, on “decent human beings”:
I would guess that of the world’s 6 billion or so souls — probably about 75 percent are good and decent folks who only want the best for their children and the world. It’s the same all over — England, Mexico, America, Africa, throughout the world — about a quarter of the population are bums, the rest are pretty good.And most of them would like to live in America. But why stop with 85 million Mexicans. For the open-border crowd — which apparently includes virtually the entire American political, media, academic and business establishment — there is no reason to try to keep out anyone who wants to come in. (The Senate and the president have made it quite clear that they have no plans to actually secure the border. Their border-security proposals are charades and calculated pretenses.)
There are still about 700 million Chinese peasants waiting impatiently for a decent job; probably about an equal number of Indians. And most of the African continent could surely live better in Phoenix than they do being butchered in genocidal wars or starving in man-induced famines.
What is the moral basis for discriminating against that part of suffering humanity unlucky enough to find itself not sharing a border with the good old US of A?
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Perhaps we have a moral obligation to tax ourselves to pay to transport to America all 4 billion or so humans who would prefer to live here, rather than where cruel fate has placed them. Surely there must be a Clinton-appointed federal judge somewhere who can provide the constitutional argument for such a mandated tax.
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Apparently, the American establishment has finally taken to heart the teaching of Karl Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. America should house and feed and educate and provide health care and employ all the world according to our ability. And surely the people of the world will provide the need.
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