Immigration Now!

The lag in entries was due to the Pride season in the capital: Youth Pride, followed by Black Pride, then Capital Pride. For the local gay press, this is our crunch time. Think of the mall -- consumer, not national -- between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thankfully, that’s all done. Our next guaranteed boom isn’t till One In Ten throws our local LGBT film festival in October, Reel Affirmations. Ahead of that, I can count on a couple of lost weekends screening choppy copies of independent movies for the sake of 200-word blurbs. Meanwhile, it’s just hosting out-of-town guests and keeping cool.

Since writing last, however, that “Too Many People” entry holds ever more firm. It just seems obvious that sharing the wealth by increasing our population through immigration versus reproduction makes sense. For the left, it’s a very PC way to help those who were born with fewer opportunities. For the right, it nearly guarantees that your fewer offspring who share less of their inheritance and are born into the advantages of citizenship from Day 1 will have an advantage over immigrant labor. So everybody wins, right? I don’t see a downside. An added bonus for Neo-cons bent on spreading democracy is the cost-savings of spreading it to foreigners inside our own borders. We don’t have to pay to bring democracy to them, but instead bring them here for lessons. That’s got to offer a substantial savings, especially considering that when we send “democracy teachers” abroad, we often have to pay to arm them heavily and risk losing them to roadside bombs.