With nearly 1 million illegal immigrants having already self-deported from the U.S. since Donald Trump’s election victory, many affluent Americans are apparently wondering who’ll left be around to mow their lawns. Casie Chalk in The Federalist suggests they start doing the job themselves – and stop looking for cheap labour for innumerable other household chores as well. They’ll not only save money but might, Chalk suggests, find it strengthens their family life to boot.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
