tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post774104711283438267..comments2024-03-24T20:13:39.387+00:00Comments on demography.matters.blog: A brief note on the problems facing the Canadian guest worker programUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-10709377953297936792009-11-08T19:52:38.403+00:002009-11-08T19:52:38.403+00:00Independent of whether or not it would work in a m...Independent of whether or not it would work <a href="http://www.theamericanscene.com/2007/12/18/guest-workers-in-singapore" rel="nofollow">in a more open society</a>, said Singaporean guest worker program does seem to work <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2007/12/17/guests-in-the-machine" rel="nofollow">fairly effectively</a> in ways compatible with fairly open borders. The main problem with Randy McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-74001967376530982752009-11-08T00:05:29.791+00:002009-11-08T00:05:29.791+00:00Singapore's guest worker programme works fine....Singapore's guest worker programme works fine. Its aims, conditions and enforcement mechanisms do not appear to be compatible with your moraility/political stance, though it's a net benefit over the alternative for both Singapore and the guest workers.<br /><br /><br /><br />"The economist Lawrence Summers, a former president of Harvard, has expressed this objection in somewhat Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com