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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (19297)	5/21/2006 10:26:44 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541344

he lives in an abstract world where all that matters is the logic and moral weight of the choices we make (even though there is not just one actor who can make a single choice about this mess), not the actual feasibility of implementing anything. Gosh, I didn't get that message at all. Just read it again and I still don't see it. Very passionate, very righteous and largely useless to anyone responsible for implementing real policies and programs I thought he did a superb job of capturing and isolating the factors and the factions, an excellent analytic effort. That, in itself, is useful. If there was any passion, it seemed to me to be passion against the muddle-headed quality of the debate. As far as what to do, while he didn't lay it out point by point since that was not the type of piece it was, you could tell what he favored. Shut down the border and grant amnesty came across loud and clear. Re the importation of labor, he suggested a framework for analyzing it but didn't analyze it himself. Hey, it's an op-ed, not a treatise... The only fault I had with it was the absolute--that it was feasible to control the border to the point that not a single illegal could enter. That seemed hyperbolic to me. I would need him to fill in the blanks to persuade me.