Personally I wish we could do away with all of this nonsense. We'd need a lot less restrictions on who enters/exits the country if we could get rid of Social Security (Why is the government paying for lazy people to retire?) and nonsense like the Income Tax (Really. It was unconstitutional to begin with for a reason.) If America could go to being a truly open, truly free, truly mixed society then our bizarre jingoistic mindset we've adopted lately would crumble under the weight of ethnic multiplicity.

It doesn't hurt that this could mean the greatest economic explosion in history, either. Or the fact that if we start with this, other nations could follow suit, meaning if I want to go live in Germany, it's just a plane ride away. Japan? Australia? How nice would it be to be able to actually stay in Japan for two years, work there, learn the language, then come home and not have to worry about this ridiculous paperwork bullshit where our governments try and hold us back and keep us from going places and seeing what it's really like to live somewhere else? Or where the government tries to keep people out who it wouldn't have control over by shoving destructive and crippling taxes on? I'm not preaching anarchy, and I'm sure some of you will respond with a "What about National Security?" response. To those of you, I ask you this: Imagine if all these people who work for the IRS or the immigration people could be repositioned to work on finding people who're actually threats to the safety of people worldwide? If we legalized the narcotics and allowed open borders, the smuggling of people and drugs into our country would be replaced by people with free and open enterprise, allowing those people who currently work for the border patrol to do something that could help us be even greater, perhaps they could help stop people who do things that actually make us less safe. Drunk driving enforcement maybe?

And the coastguard could dedicate it's entire focus to helping those of us who want to spend our time on the sea and protecting our freedom and safety out on the waters. What a world that would be? Too bad all of this is just a minimalist-government utopia. Most people are too scared, and the people who aren't, or could really push for change (For example, the green-card holders in this thread who might agree with some of this) have their voices silenced without having any real freedom. What a country America has become, it's good our founding fathers are all long dead, I think they'd shed a few tears, though be far from surprised, to see what the political machines have dragged us down to.