Just to get away from all the health-care nonsense for a little while, here's a very interesting discussion between Peter Robinson and Mark Krikorian on the fiscal considerations relating to immigration.
I was particularly impressed with Krikorian's answer to the following question:
"What is the argument that permits you in good conscience to prefer the well-being of the working poor in El Paso over the poor folks in Ciudad Juarez who want to move to El Paso?"
His answer: "It's called patriotism." That may sound like an inadequate answer, but Krikorian explains how it really is not. He uses the phrase "concentric circles of obligation" to explain a concept that most people, whether they admit it or not, inherently understand: That they are first obligated to their own family, then to their community, then to their country, and then to citizens of foreign countries.
That seems not only reasonable to me, but also an undeniable fact of the human experience.
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