The Open-Door Bailout
12th February 2009
“All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.”
And I have no problem with that. The problem is that, in actual practice, it would be two million Muslims and Latin Americans, and that is what got us into this mess in the first place.