Let's Have More Poverty !

The proposed new law on immigration currently under consideration by the U.S. Congress is really throwing up some interesting discussions, so much so that it is difficult to select the best for you.

Economist Arnold Kling - I hope that he will forgive me, but I cannot help thinking of him as a relative of Klinger, the cross-dresser in M.A.S.H. - has a good oneto start you on:

...we ought to try to double the U.S. poverty rate in the next decade.

The way everyone else looks at it, if a Mexican comes here legally and earns $350 a week, poverty has increased, regardless of whether he is earning 10 times as much as he was before.

I think we ought to try to find a humanitarian way to "increase" this type of poverty.

This is just as applicable to, say, Romanians coming to Ireland, so, shall we all say

"Bring 'em in !- Make Romanian Poverty History!"?