Reply to "Interesting discussion on Immigration"

I too was pretty amazed by that video. Clearly something needs to be done. I was also amazed by Al Gore's presentation. I almost went out and bought a Prius after watching An Inconvenient Truth (instead of the big SUV that I did).

Anyhow, I have a question about the immigration stats. Why aren't all those hundreds of millions of immigrants and their offspring paying taxes? Wouldn't all that money help finance the infrastructure we need to support the numbers of immigrants? This isn't Hong Kong. We have lots of room.

Immigration unchecked is a scary picture indeed. But maybe we need to look at what we do (and more importantly what we don't do) with the tax dollars we have. Maybe if we were a little smarter in that regard we could spread the wealth around a bit more, even out the playing field, protect those who need it and help the environment too.

One thing is for sure, Tony Blair's comment that the indicator of a great country is how many want in and how many want out is well proven here. Clearly the people of the world have spoken.

Now we need to have more input in our destiny - a little more "by the people, for the people."