0:00.0	Immigrants are good people. I know that's a very broad statement, but studies bear this point out.
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0:25.3	Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast with Cubs today from Economic Update with
0:30.3	Professor Richard Wolff, the Laura Flanders show, on the media, the breach, and off-kilter.
0:38.8	I want to ask you a question about a thought I have. It's all about me now. On immigration.
0:45.2	And we always look at it at the issue in humanitarian terms, but I want to look at it as an economic
0:53.2	term. And I get that there are two people I like talking to, three people I like talking to, most
0:57.0	historians, economists, and demographers. And I find demographers interesting. And this
1:01.5	seed of an idea was given to me by a demographer who I interviewed once. It was telling me, look,
1:06.5	there are issues about the future of our social welfare programs, right, or social safety nets,
1:13.8	social security, Medicare, these are serious issues. You had a baby boom, you didn't have as
1:18.8	many people behind it, these type of things. Yet you actually have 11 million people in this country
1:28.1	right now who are not recognized. You bring them into the fold. You bring them into the system.
1:35.2	So as we have Paul Ryan and all these people talking about we have to cut social security,
1:41.8	we have to cut Medicare, we have to reform these things, not everyone who will keep it in
1:47.7	tact for people are about to get on it, but people before that, it will be means tested, all these
1:51.8	type of things, right, and we have no choice. Well maybe we do have a choice. I mean I'm sure there
1:56.7	are many choices, but one way that we can address this, and it's not based in a humanitarian argument
2:02.4	or a moral argument. It's based in really our own self-interest actually to bring these folks
2:10.8	out of the shadows into society, remove the obstacles for them to be successful,
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