You work under the misguided assumption that gov't bureaucracies can manage human complexity and get a useful product out at the end of the process.
Not 100% of the time, no. I'm just after 'better than what we have now'.
All your ideas founder on the rocks of reality.
How specific of you. Nice to see you point out the specific ways my ideas are worse than current reality.
Oh, and screw "The unique needs of the Somalis." It is not our responsibility to re-arrange our society to suit them.
Making them work on *something* useful while shoving them into school to learn English is 're-arranging our society'? Keep in mind that I'm giving a response to a specific scenario. You could have substituted 'sixth generation welfare recepient' and you would have gotten the same response. Now yes, I didn't consider 'just send them back' because I don't know why they're here, so I didn't want to address that issue. I looked at it as 'They're here, we're not getting rid of them, what can we do to minimize what they'll cost us?'. They're unlikely to have actual brain damage, so my thought is 'teach them enough that they can survive without government assistance anymore'. Teach them how to fish, rather than just giving them a fish. Even if it means that, as a first generation immigrant they're lucky to be janitors.
And yes, I'm something of a Technocrat. I even tend Evil Overlord sometimes.
The way to increase the average/median quality of life in the USA is to increase productivity. There are two ways to do this - increase the productivity of the individual worker, or get more of our population working. We've gone a long, long ways on the former, we need to do a bit on the latter.
Ultimately I think things will settle down quite well as costs rise in China to the point that producing here is cheaper again; it's happening in select industries, but I predict an explosion of this within the next 20 or so years. Basically, as soon as the Chinese start giving as much of a *expletive deleted*it about pollution as we did back in the '60s I figure that production costs in China will soar to the point it's cheaper to do it here, on average. The return of oodles of manufacturing, though on average each factory will only employ a couple hundred people, will reduce a lot of our employment problems.
Heck, some other policies might do us some good, employment wise:
1. Work to elimintate legislative differences between 'full time' and 'part time' workers that make part timers significantly cheaper than full timers, to the point that you have quite a few businesses that deliberately hire as many people part time as they can, forcing their workers to work two jobs - often between the same 2-3 companies! This creates scheduling issues and time waste.
2. Seperate health care benefits and employment(will help with #1).
3. Make our prisons/justice system more about reform than warehousing or punishment. When criminals come out of prison worse(crime wise) than when they went in, there's a serious problem.
I'm a practical minarchist. That means that if more government in area A will reduce government even more in area B, and benefit society in the meantime, we should do it.