Posts from — June 2007

I stumbled upon this “Immigration bill gets reprieve” article earlier today. Basically, $4.4 billion would be available for “border security” if the bill is signed into law.

I don’t really care or pay much attention to the story or the bill itself, but the article just makes me wonder. What if the US. didn’t have any border at all? If foreigners could come and work in the US freely without having to be US citizens or having work permits, what would the USA be like?

Pros: We will have more choices, more resources to choose from.
The foreign workers would be the main force to drive lazy American to try harder to make themselves better.
We could finally be able to hire somebody to do things we don’t want to do easier and safer, maybe even cheaper?

Cons: Under quailfied US workers will be unemployed even more than before.
The USA will have the highest population in the world in a week, if there’s no limit at the border.
Loads of problems will come after that con#2 above, you don’t even want to take a second look at the Pros again.

Well,… having the border wide open all at once without any restriction is not a good idea. But, you know what I’m getting here.

…to be continued

Is your child an extention of yourself?

I heard a lot of real life stories indicate that parents, especially fathers, tend to think about their children as an extention of themselves.

Of course, fathers always want what is best for their children. Sometimes, what is best seems to be what the fathers wanted when they were a child, but they never got it, or they never had a chance to get it.

Wouldn’t it be nice if human can inherit experiences and memories from their parents? We would never made the same mistake twice. We would never have to teach our children anything. And more over, our children can be exactly what we want without us having to tell them what they should do. For example, I had been trying to get in the PGA tour my whole life without any success. I could be sure that my children will be able to get in without much effort since they would have my experiences, abilities and memories.

No…that’s a silly thought. If humankind has that ability, our next generation will have to work even harder to get to where they want because everybody will be even better and harder to beat, won’t they?

The reason I write this message is just for myself really. I don’t want to make my child an extention of myself no matter how much I want him/her to be. I’ll have to come back to read my own thought later on.