BA> Replying to a message of Bob Ackley to DAVE DRUM:

 DD>>> Then do something to help improve the conditions of Mexico
 DD>>> so people would do what they would rather do and that's
 DD>>> stay home with their families. Do you really think they
 DD>>> want to struggle trying to cross the border?

 BA>> Since the problem has been going on for well over half a
 BA>> century, yes.

 BA> Some people go to where they can get the most for the least
 BA> effort.

 Some do, the large migration is because of deprivation where
 they were.

 BA> I remember back in about 1960 my parents griping about
 BA> second and third generations living off the fairly generous
 BA> California welfare system. People were literally moving
 BA> there in order to get those welfare checks, which usually
 BA> were bigger than the ones they were getting where they
 BA> were.

 I remember that also. It was nationwide news. And it wasn't just
 California, but CA was the big destination.

 BA> CA tried to establish residency requirements before
 BA> one could receive welfare benefits, but the federal courts
 BA> shot that idea down - IMO a bad decision.  Of course that
 BA> was in a time before welfare became an 'entitlement' that
 BA> people had a *right* to.

 That was in a time when the South got to set welfare at a point
 where the poor were kept in near starvation. Held down wages
 very well, and hurt the whold country. Had welfare been at a set
 level throughout the country that problem would not have
 happened.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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