Border Fence?

Heres a quote by General George Patton:

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity.”

I would include a border fence in this category.

How to save medicare

I am taking a governmental accounting class this semester. Our first project was to come up with a solution for Social Security and Medicare. My first instinct was to make them go extinct. However that was a bit to simple for the required six page paper. After some research I discovered that the biggest problem was we are going to have less and less payers per beneficiary of the system. This leaves two possible solutions. Cut down beneficiaries or increase payers. The first option wont happen because the old farts that vote would never vote to increase the age at which they get benefits. That leaves the second option. The obvious answer to that is to increase the birthrate. The problem with that is that it will take 20 to 30 years for that solution to help. But alas I have the answer. Increase immigration. This way we can import payers to help fund the system. Best of all we don't even have to wait the 30 years for them to be productive.
Now I know someone out there is thinking but what about all the illegals drawing on the health care system etc. Let me explain what really happens. Immigrants with out Uncle Sams permission get a fake social security card and ID when they apply for jobs. Then the employer with holds the same 15.3% that you and I pay. Then occasionally when they are really sick yes they do go to the emergency room for care. Still I've got to believe even then they are net payers into the system.

Lame Elections and Immigration

Is anyone else out there having a hard time being excited about the presidential election? I just cant seem to find any candidate who I really want to get behind. I like some of Ron Paul's economic ideas but cant stand his immigration policy. ALL candidates pretend to be pro market. "Get government out of business" they say. Well according to my memory of economics there are three main factors of production; land, LABOR, and capital. If you are really in favor of a free market you believe in the free flow of labor and that the "invisible hand" will allocate it efficiently. Guess what, if you put up restrictions on immigration you are restricting labor. Therefore if you are anti immigration you are not "pro market" or what ever other buzz word you want to use. So Mitt Ron Rudy quit saying you are what you are not. I'll let John off the hook on this one but just barely.