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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (357451)	4/3/2010 1:26:37 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

In a generation there would be no Israel. Bingo

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (357451)	4/3/2010 1:40:38 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

BS. What do you think would be the end result if Israel granted citizenship to "anchor babies" like the US does? In a generation there would be no Israel. I don't know, a previous poster was claiming that many Muslims with the opportunity to become Israeli citizens choose not to do so. I don't know if that's true, but sorta fits the Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity theme. If you think Israel would be gone in a generation if the people born in the specific geography were all allowed to vote, that's a reasonably good argument that it should be gone, if it's really democratic. If most of the people born in the region don't want it to exist, that should carry some weight. Not being a member of the Jewish religion I certainly wouldn't want to live my life in a Jewish homeland. I want to live in my homeland, whatever that means. FWIW, I think we need to abandon the anchor baby route to citizenship. Hard to argue with. However, as a US citizen who lives outside the US, the penalties of citizenship are large. The US will tax me wherever I live, whereas other nationalities pretty much tax you only if you live in country. If you are a big income earner, there are a lot of nationalities that are preferable to American for tax purposes. Fortunately, at the moment I don't have that problem (big income). Still trying to figure out how to get a food stamp or two. I'd be interested to learn if the so called anchor babies are a drain on the US. Methinks longtime US welfare residents are taking more of the welfare pie than kids of immigrants who came here to have a US citizen child. I'd bet the anchor babies are the kind of workers the US wants, not the welfare dependent that suck out of the system while returning little, but what do I know?