limits to liberalism

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Paul Krugman promotes a WPA; why not simply enforce our immigration laws? - 11/06/2009

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman of the New York Times offers "Why not a WPA?" (link) in which he promotes - while maintaining plausible-to-his-followers deniability - the creation of something like FDR's Works Progress Administration: You can make a pretty good case that just employing a lot of people directly would be a lot more cost-effective... So why aren’t we doing...

Dear Center for American Progress: do you support getting jobs for Fresno's homeless? - 3/26/2009

An open letter to the Center for American Progress: Your Matt Yglesias drew my attention (link) to the New York Times article "Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns" (link) about a rise in homeless people living under bridges in Fresno, California. I have an effective way to ease their plight and I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know whether you'll help promote the idea...

San Francisco discovers concept of borders, may restrict homeless benefits to locals - 12/22/2008

... sometimes even they realize there are limits to liberalism ("S.F. blames out-of-towners for endless homeless problem" by CW Nevius, link): City officials are finally admitting what others have been saying for years: San Francisco is attracting huge numbers of homeless people from all over. Thousands of transient people, arriving from other counties, states and even countries, are overw...

"Liberals" support quotas, just not for white men, southerners (Obama cabinet) - 12/22/2008

... it or not. However, there are limits to liberalism. Namely, when the quota involves white men, especially white men from the South. Following are four recent examples involving the selections Barack Obama has made for his cabinet and top administration positions. These are reactions to the article "Southerners are the missing group in Obama's Cabinet" (link), which quotes Larry Sab...

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