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Two things:
(1) The latest Supreme Court ruling. Okay, my idea is that depriving those born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents should be retroactive through the generations, making descendants of those landing on the Mayflower, who were not citizens (there wasn’t even a United States then) also noncitizens. Even Native Americans (since there was no U.S.) would not be U.S. citizens today. The only true “Americans” would be naturalized citizens, i.e., those who had learned enough civics to pass an exam—which would pretty much empty out the White House and many state capitol buildings. Voting lines would be way shorter, too. A friend I floated this idea past asked if naturalization could also be retroactive, and I told her I haven’t worked out all the details. In fact, I am unlikely to bother. This is, after all, in case you haven’t guessed, what philosophers call a ‘reductio,’ short for reductio ad absurdum. How would such a small number of naturalized Americans get along with groups of indigenous Americans, say the People of the Three Fires? Maybe better than the historical track record thus far.
(2) On a completely unrelated topic, the older of my two credit cards recently had its credit limit drastically lowered. The reason given (I could appeal but won’t bother) is that I “have not been using” enough of my credit available. In other words, I am not deep enough in debt to be worthy of as much available credit as they thought for years I should have. In fact, I pay off my balance every month, so I am not building debt and not making the company any money. But in my not-so-humble opinion, the company’s thinking is short-sighted, because if I were ever desperate enough to max out my available credit, there is no way I’d be able to pay it back at the end of the month, and they would have me hooked. Now that hook, should it ever be set (God forbid!) will net them much less than it might have otherwise.
Your thoughts?
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