 It's no accident that the 19th century America, at least for the most part, in spite of the instigation of certain people against immigrants, in spite of the attempts of the media and some politicians to drive a wedge between Americans and immigrants, for the most part Americans embraced immigration. They were positive. They were optimistic. And they understood the value of freedom. They understood that one man's success is not another man's failure. That life is not a zero-sum game. That bringing productive people into the country or having them come to the country, choose to come into the country, was a huge net benefit to all who resided in the country. That the country grew not at some people's expense, but that anybody who was willing to work, anybody who was willing to risk, anybody who was willing to be an entrepreneur benefited from the freedoms everybody had. It wasn't one man against the other. We were all in it together, not in a collectivistic sense, but in a sense of traders, in a sense of win-win relationships. And it's the same attitude, well, noticed the attitude today. Today immigrants are taking our jobs, as if there's a finite pool of jobs that only a certain number of people can do. And if an immigrant comes in, an American loses a job forever, in spite of all of history suggesting that that is just untrue. Immigrants is a threat. Immigrants are scary. Immigrants is something we should be afraid of. Now, put aside what you believe in terms of what the immigration laws should be and how many immigrants you want in and how you want to structure it, but the fear, the fear of mongering, but the actual fear, the hatred, the viciousness of the debate illustrates how far we have come. America today, and not all Americans, but America today, so many Americans today, live in fear, in dread, with a sense of hatred towards the other. With a sense of a zero-sum game, they come, we lose. In a sense of dread in the future, oh my God, what will happen if they come? Gone is the optimism, gone is the positiveness, gone is the attitude of win-win. Now, a lot of that is due to the welfare state. The welfare state creates a zero-sum mentality because the welfare state indeed is zero-sum. The welfare state creates a pessimism about the future because the welfare state is not sustainable, not here, not in Sweden, not in Norway, nowhere is it sustainable. It creates a pessimism and a zero-sum mentality, and that is part of the big evil of the welfare state.