A Post Worth a Year-Long Wait?

Not really.

Anyway, BBC News Hour said on the radio this morning that there are 30 times the anticipated number of immigrants in Britain from Eastern Europe following their accession in 2004. This has caused some to suggest that perhaps the open borders policy should be reconsidered.

What a rediculous suggestion to make. I am willing to consider arguments that the program didn't work as it was intended to and is causing economic problems, but to scrap this incredibly forward-looking policy all together? When you set up an idealistic goal for yourself, you don't abandon the goal at the first sign of trouble. You fix the trouble within the framework of the goal. Otherwise what is the point of setting up the goal? Why not just make the goal be the path you desired as opposed to the idological end-point?