[ExI] Protected Elites
Damien Sullivan
phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sat May 16 08:11:33 UTC 2009
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:30:58PM -0700, spike wrote:
> This I long suspected, for I saw the desperation in the eyes of all
> those pitful boat people and border crossers, struggling to escape
> from the US.
Having less mobility than Nordic countries doesn't mean having less
mobility than where boat people are coming from. And the bottom of the
pyramid here still is doing fairly well by global standards. But, you
know, people try to get into all those other countries as well. And a
bunch of Americans are tempted, if only for the assurance of health
care.
-xx- Damien X-)
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