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Posted on 01/22/2003 10:17:14 AM PST by Norm640
United States leaving first world by Paul Craig Roberts
America has turned its back on Americans. Even illegal aliens count higher with the American government than native-born, taxpaying, loyal U.S. citizens, who are regarded by their government as nothing but resources to be exploited.
American taxpayers now are expected to shoulder the burden of paying for university educations for illegal aliens. When Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said recently that illegal aliens should be deported, not given in-state tuition, Karl Rove, the Power Behind the Bush, told Tancredo never again to darken the steps of the White House.
The U.S. government is replete with hatred of everyone who sticks up for the rights of citizenship. The government steadfastly refuses to defend our borders. It is more important, says the government, to have cheap household help for elites, and an abundance of fast food workers to keep down the minimum wage, than it is to defend our country's borders.
The INS refuses to deport alien criminals and issues visas to terrorists who wish to blow us up. Columnist and author Michele Malkin and the website vdare.com have documented the complete failure of government to protect the meaning of citizenship.
Politicians, including President Bush, pander to illegals even more shamelessly than they pander to monied special interest groups. Campaign finance reform is a joke when illegal aliens vote and money from abroad affects election outcomes.
The government's lack of loyalty to citizens has been noticed not only by illegal immigrants who pour over our borders with rising expectations and demands, but also by U.S. employers.
If it is permissible for illegal aliens to take fast-food jobs away from U.S. teen-agers and construction jobs away from U.S. construction workers, it is all right for H-1B visas to be issued to foreigners to take jobs away from American professionals.
Do you remember the "shortage" of computer software engineers, cooked up by corporations who wanted to replace American engineers by importing Indian and Chinese engineers at a fraction of the salary? This practice has been good for the bonuses of corporate CEOs, but today the young American software engineers who followed Warren Buffet's advice to "invest in yourselves" are unemployed.
Now comes the "shortage" of nurses. Hospitals are under financial pressure from the requirement to provide medical care to immigrants and need to cut costs. Bringing in foreign nurses, who will accept low wages in exchange for U.S. residency, is one way to cut costs.
One can sympathize with the hospitals, which are forced to pay the cost of government's failure to protect our borders. But let's make sure we understand what those declaring a nursing "shortage" mean. They mean that there is a shortage of American-trained nurses willing to work at a "world wage," which is an average of U.S. and Third World wages.
This is a clever way of creating a shortage. There definitely was a shortage of American software engineers at below American wage levels. That's why the supply of computer engineers was expanded to include India and China.
Will your occupation be destroyed next? If software engineers can be imported, so can electrical, chemical, mechanical and civil engineers. If nurses can be imported, so can doctors.
The list of occupations that can be destroyed by "internationalizing" the U.S. job market is long. Let's focus instead on the occupations that will be most difficult for the government to destroy. Only two come readily to mind: school teachers and lawyers.
School teachers are protected because their union, the NEA, is the backbone of the Democratic Party. The teachers will not stand for their wages to be driven down with the argument that there is a teacher shortage that needs to be filled by importing teachers from abroad.
Lawyers are protected because of the obstacles of state bar exams. Moreover, the abundance of lawyers is such that no one would believe in a shortage.
Between the importation of foreign labor and the export of U.S. jobs, the future is not bright for young Americans. U.S. manufacturers, both labor-intensive and high-tech, are rapidly relocating offshore. The offshore flight takes with it design, engineering, and research and development jobs. Back-office and clerical jobs are also being moved offshore.
If Wal-Mart has its way, nothing will be produced in America. The retailing giant wraps itself in the American flag, but it gives its suppliers price targets. Suppliers find that in order to meet the targets, they must move production offshore.
Wall Street and lenders, such as GE Commercial Finance, pressure U.S. companies to outsource production to China in order to improve their margins.
Outsourcing to lower wage countries can be a solution for individual companies. But when all U.S. companies outsource, the implication is a population working for Wal-Mart selling foreign-made goods.
Will America be a Third World country in 20 years?
©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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Consider the usual definition of second world, the Communist bloc (Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations). Now according to the official definition, Cuba, Red China and North Korea should also be considered Second world, but in usual usage are considered Third World.
The usual definition is done by example. First World is the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The Second World was typically listed as Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact (Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, etc.). The Third World was everybody else, "developing" nations.
First is generally kissing. Second is heavy petting, maybe with some...oh heck, you said world. Never mind.
Though I think Wolfie's answer is really funny, I believe that it is not "First" "Second" and "Third" world, but applies to the developed countries in the West, the developed countries in the East and the undeveloped countries being the Third World.
Huh, imagine that. A company trying to increase its profits. That IS startling.
We didn't experience the same anxiety moving from an agricultural to an industrial country. A country like Britain did though. They had to rely on imports to feed themselves -- a problem we didn't have. An unexpected event, like the submarine warfare of the 20th century could have reduced them to starvation. But our own transition to industrialism was frought with other anxieties: the subjugation of independent, self-reliant and self-sufficient small farmers to employers and time clocks, the growing power of money, industrial wealth, and large corporations, and the fear that government or revolutionaries might confiscate private and corporate property in the name of the workers and curtail freedoms.
What troubles many people now is that in spite of all the new technologies, automation, and managerial techniques, production always seems to come down to the brute fact of cheap labor. If you benefit from this, it's a sign that freedom always wins out over barriers, borders, regulations and restrictions. If you are threatened by it, it's a sign that your life is governed by powerful forces that you can't keep under control or at bay.
Really! 'Pod
I’ve no doubt what so ever that remark about Rove is true and it is frightening. One thing mentioned several times is about the cheap labor...do you call $15 –20.00 an hour cheap? That is the going price for border labor these days, legal and illegal.
I will say it again – We The People are the First line of defense and it is being left up to a few living close to both north and southern borders do clean it up while the politicians just sit and do nothing. A moratorium on immigration should be applied immediately and NAFTA put on hold as well until someone (s) with some common sense and leadership can effectively hold the line and straighten this mess out and those someone’s are going to come from the private sector, i.e., civilians not anyone connected to the government. One exception might be Tom Tancredo and his group. Another is Chris Simcox and his Civil Homeland Defense. One more time here is what is being done:
Protect United States Borders, North and South
We will deter and prohibit illegal entry into the United States
We will force the U.S. Government to Protect U.S. Borders
We will be relieved of duty and go home....he means when the government does its job.
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It has been nearly a year and a half since the Twin Towers were hit and still this unwieldy and bloated government can’t get their act together to make the changes that should have been in affect within weeks after that terrorist act. They are running in circles hanging onto their turf and the citizens of this country are being hung out to dry. Get on the phones to your elected, forget e-mail – they do...write or call them and put their feet in the fire. If you think Carl Rove has too much power, let the President and Vice President know, better yet let Laura know!
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