On 15-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Your lefty-liberal "open border" and
"political refugee" policies are very scary, and it's been proven several
times that terrorists and other criminals have entered North America via
Canada. The 9-11 terrorists are hardly the only concerns here

The fact that Canada accepts more refugees than the US (but then, most
countries are more open to help others than the US) has nothing to
do with terrorism.

If anyone gets into the US from Canada, the problem is at _your_ border.
We do not check on who leaves our country - people are free to move
around here. If you are paranoid and want to keep people out, then fix
your own damned border.

The vast majority of illegal immigrants enter the US via the Mexican
border. Why would terrorists enter via Canada if the Mexican border
is so porous?

Corporate subsidies prop up ineffective and obsolete companies.

Sometimes. It's true that the programs have to be carefully assessed and
monitored, but the occasional abuse of the programs doesn't impeach the
overall benefits.

If you actually study the effects of government subsidies, you'll find that
_most_ of them prop up inefficient companies. Companies that are completely
viable can be dealt with by loan guarantees (like Chrysler 25 years ago),
not corporate welfare.


Steel [...] It's what caused Japan to go to war with us.

Read your history books, Japan went to war over oil. The US
embargoed it and threatened to intervene if Japan tried anything
in the Pacific. Japan tried to secure oil in Indonesia and took
out Pearl Harbor and the bases in the Philippines to prevent
the Yanks from interfering.

What government should be doing is paying subsidies to US steel companies
for the purposes of upgrading their technology to the current Nucor model.

What they should be doing is underwriting loans to these companies and not
seeing taxpayer's money disappear. If the loans are too risky, the companies
should be allowed to die.

All you're doing is using doublespeak to try to avoid calling subsidies
what they are - corporate welfare.

Mike