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To: Ilaine who wrote (19321)	5/21/2006 1:58:29 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541340

And also the boneheadedness What's boneheaded about that? It's true. If waitresses were paid better, girls might aspire to be waitresses. Saying so in not only not boneheaded, it isn't anti-immigration reform. It's just economics. I picked up on the icky nativism/racism right away. Heavy influx of immigrants from one place is destabilizing. That is at least as obvious as your perceptions of racism. It's indisputable. >>Their position is indemnified not only by stupidity and greed but by the fact that it is impossible to make a simple case for sovereign control of the borders without attracting nativists and xenophobes who pollute the argument with racism, protectionism and statist economics.<< And it also attracts those who attribute nativism and xenophobia in everything and everyone to whom the nativists and zenophobics have attached. Basic interest group politics--forget the nuance, just call them all racists. Or moonbats. Or whatever.

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