Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Immigration - Some forward-looking truths
This columnist makes a good point...
In the Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson looks to the future:
"President Bush's immigration speech mostly missed the true nature of the problem. We face two interconnected population issues. One is aging; the other is immigration. We aren't dealing sensibly with either, and as a result we face a future of unnecessarily heightened political and economic conflict. On the one side will be older baby boomers demanding all their federal retirement benefits. On the other will be an expanding population of younger and poorer Hispanics -- immigrants, their children and grandchildren -- increasingly resentful of their rising taxes that subsidize often-wealthier and unrelated baby boomers."
"Does this look like a harmonious future?"
