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To: neolib who wrote (265153)	5/30/2008 8:19:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

For someone writing an academic paper on the incentives and disinentives for skilled people to immegrate to America there would be a very large burden for the author to deal with a wide range of causes. For someone trying to point out that disliked policy X contributes to disliked result Y, in a blog post, not so much. To the extent that your trying to determine how significant of an issue you are dealing with the percentage of the problem is not a very important factor. The severity of the part of the problem it causes is. If IEDs in Iraq killed twice as many Americans as they do today, but total American deaths tripled, that wouldn't mean that IED's where less of a problem than they used to be. Is this the disincentive the blogger talks about a vital national issue? Almost certainly not. But its not like every issue worth talking about has to be a vital national issue. If the policy has a negative effect its worth talking about, even if other policies have a bigger effect in the same area, or if the effect isn't massive enough to be critical to the future of the country.