Of course. But the fact remains, 95% of the time, those spaces go unused or go to people that are gaming the system somehow. In New York City, for example, being on a special disability list gives you massively expanded parking rights, almost as much as a cop car. I wonder how many people on that list are actually disabled.

Try $200. I am almost pathologically careful about how I park in New York City, reading the parking signs with the attention to detail of a talmudic scholar, and I still manage to get a 100+ dollar parking ticket every other months.

Or here, interpret this: http://www.newyorkparkingticket.com/Portals/41340/images/NYPT---Parking%20signs__5%20on%20one%20pole1.JPG

The problem is that, at least in the region where I live, parking spaces are artificially limited to generate revenue. Why does THE ENTIRE BLOCK need to be designated a bus stop for a bus that nobody uses? Why are there four fire hydrants on each block, two of which clearly are not even functional? Why does the street sweeper (which doesn't clean a thing) need to come by at some inconvenient time so that everyone sits in their car waiting for it instead of being able to go to work? Why after it comes by do you need to stay in your car or else get a ticket from the meter maid for being parked at a time reserved for street sweeping? Why is there an arbitrary one hour limit on meters so you need to keep coming back out?

No, he was brought here by his parents at age 5. They were all here illegally. 

This is only true if there can be no such thing as a bad law. I disagree.

With respsect to not having English skills, I would challenge you to learn a new language at your age. It's not exactly a trivial undertaking, and English is far and away the world's most difficult language in terms of the sheer size of the vocabulary. Most immigrants have some command of English, but that wouldn't be close to enough in a legal situation. Not that assimilation actually matters that much. Or do we all excoriate the store owners in Chinatown for having all their signs in Chinese?

Will do!

NO! That's exactly what they are. Evil, disgusting little creatures. If I had my way... well, let's just be thankful that I don't.

I feel like I understand your position pretty well, to the point where I could make your arguments in your place. Can you say the same? If not, that might suggest that you haven't given my arguments a tremendous amount of thought. I suspect you're dismissing them as irrelevant because you disagree with me in the main. That's fine when you're talking to a dummy, but I am not one of those. 

Right, but deciding on the qualifications is not the same as verifying that the individual voters ultimately are qualified. The former happens long before the election, and it's just a law on the books. The latter is an act that is part of the election process, i.e. showing up and presenting your ID at the voting booth. That latter one really seems like it falls under "manner" to me. 

I'm actually pretty sympathetic to Thomas' dissent, but it's a tricky case, isn't it?

(obviously I have no legal training)

Titus Andronicus - No Future Pt III: Escape from No Future

I like to think it's about the effects of big government, but that's probably just me.

I was a river, I was a tall tree, I was a volcano

But now I'm asleep on top of a mountain, I've been covered in snow

Yes, I have surrendered what made me human and all that I thought was true
And now there's a robot that lives in my brain and he tells me what to do
And I can do nothing without his permission that wasn't part of the plan

So now in Rock Ridge pharmacy I will be waiting for my man
But there is another down in a dungeon who never gave up the fight
And he'll be forever screaming, sometimes I hear him say, on a quiet night, he says
You will always be a loser
You will always be a loser
You will always be a loser
You will always be a loser
x10
You will always be a loser
You will always be a loser now
And that's okay

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."

Kind of an important consideration...

Yes, luckily I was born here.

But they do get enough to send home to their families?

Whose fault is that?

Same people who pay for food stamps for any American born children -- the foolish taxpayers who haven't tried to get rid of the program.

Same people who pay for education for any American born children, even all those black kids in Chicago that are going to grow up to be gangsters, or the children in Appalachia that are going to grow up to be hillbillies, living off a disability check. 

Yes, and I actually pity people on welfare; liberal do-gooders have sapped them of their industry. Slackers aren't born; they're made. 

Never watched Kudlow before. Man, he's awful.

Between our own "Jimmy P" and technically also our own John Taylor (he does have an account here, ya know), I'd probably go Taylor because he's got that gravitas thing going on, and because his position seems correct in principle. Of course, Jim's argument is as compelling as anything empirical can be in Economics.

In the end, nobody knows anything.

I'm sure there are more than a few sympathetic policemen out there, I would think it especially so in Texas. But when my best friend and his family could not produce their papers after a random bus stop by the ICE last year, mother father and son alike were hauled off to a detention center in El Paso. Mom and Dad, by the way, are small business owners and my friend has been here since the age of 5, top marks in high school, has an aerospace engineering degree, speaks perfect English...

I guess ICE wasn't in a generous mood that day.

Ah yes, the old "the laws of economics no longer apply in this modern and globalized world" routine. I don't buy it when liberals use it, and I don't buy it now.

It looks to me like they have a whole lot of young natives who don't feel like working tough jobs because getting handouts from the state is easier.

Illegal immigrants don't get handouts from the state. They work.

Fact. "A 2008 analysis by the federal Small Business Administration found that, across the country, immigrants are nearly 30 percent more likely to start a business than are nonimmigrants." - NYT

Right. That means Japan is struggling to find young laborers because all they have now are old laborers and young slackers.

You're quite right; it has happened here. What we need are more unskilled laborers, not overeducated baristas. Yet all I hear is how great STEM education is and how we need to get more skilled immigrants.