"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Immigration Then and Now
Jeb Bush and Robert Putnam compre today's immigrants to those of previous years and find they stack up pretty well.
"Only with suburbanization, encouraged by government policy in the 1950s and 1960s, did the children and grandchildren of the immigrants of the 1890s and 1900s exit those enclaves."
Off topic, but it makes me wonder what policies they're talking about.
In my world view, the government made urban areas so undesirable that it encouraged suburbanization! :)
One line caught my eye:
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Off topic, but it makes me wonder what policies they're talking about.
In my world view, the government made urban areas so undesirable that it encouraged suburbanization! :)
I would imagine the are referring to the creation of the interstate highway system and the subsidies provided to buy single-family homes.
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