Posted on 06/11/2017 3:07:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a column from December of 2015, the Wall Street Journal’s Mary O’Grady unveiled a rather inconvenient fact that poverty warriors on the American left and right would perhaps prefer remain hidden: from 1980 to 2000, when the U.S. economy boomed, the number of Mexican arrivals into the U.S. grew from 2.2 million in 1980 to 9.4 million in 2000. The previous number is a clear market signal that the U.S. is where poverty has always been cured, as opposed to a condition that requires specific U.S. policy fixes. O’Grady’s statistics came to mind while reading a recent New York Times column by Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He writes that a “highly progressive agenda [from Democratic scholars and politicians] has been coming together in recent months, one with the potential to unite both the Hillary and Bernie wings of the party, to go beyond both Clintonomics and Obamanomics.”
The problem is that the agenda that's got Bernstein so giddy has nothing to do with the very economic growth that is always the source of rising economic opportunity for the poor, middle and rich. Up front, Bernstein expresses excitement about a $190 billion (annually) program that he describes as a “universal child allowance.” The allowance would amount to annual federal checks sent to low-income families of $3,000/child. It all sounds so compassionate on its face to those who think it kind for Congress to spend the money of others, but given a second look even the mildly sentient will understand that economic opportunity never springs from a forcible shift of money from one pocket to another.....
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the number of Mexican arrivals into the U.S. grew from 2.2 million in 1980 to 9.4 million in 2000.
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Not only was this a result of American economic prosperity, it was also a result of a bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of laws and borders that ran from 1989-2017 through successively administrations of both parties.
The illegal alien inundation was not accidental.
“...but given a second look even the mildly sentient will understand that economic opportunity never springs from a forcible shift of money from one pocket to another...”
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I hate to be a killjoy on this issue, but the Democrats have successfully ran on wealth redistribution politics for ages (even before the New Deal). To think the platform of wealth-envy is a losing strategy doesn’t quite mesh with U.S. election history.
successive admistrations
You say that, but look at what just happened in the UK.
We’re not Britain.
No kidding. But there are similarities. Just pointing out that they nearly elected Corbyn, who is a raving leftist lunatic.
3 grand to a poor family wouldn’t make even a small dent in their circumstance. It would be Sizzler and Disneyland and be gone in a week.
I grew up poor but my Mom was different that way. But even then, $3K would have helped a little in case of emergency but that is it.
We came nowhere near electing Bernie, no matter what you read in Salon, and besides, Bernie would be a conservative in England.
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I hate to be a killjoy on this issue, but the Democrats have successfully ran on wealth redistribution politics for ages (even before the New Deal). To think the platform of wealth-envy is a losing strategy doesn’t quite mesh with U.S. election history.
I have 4 dogs, 12 chickens, 10 ducks and 5 geese that are like children to me. That’s 93,000 to buy food for the poor children here.
It is good that you understand that cats would not be counted. /S
The mexican government exporting poverty to the US.
It must be nice for a european ran central american country to be able to dump their “unwanted” natives on their neighbors, and then whine when their neighbors want to send them back.
We need another US-mexican war, and this time we keep ALL of the territory and expel all of the socialist trash infesting the region.
$3,000 that they can only use to pay their health insurance deductible I “might” support.
But no way in heck am I giving them $3,000 to go blow on a new TV, fancy tennis shoes, or cool rims for their junk cars.
The big increase was caused by Treas sec Rubin destroying the Mexican peso and the Maquiladoras, sending all those Mexican jobs to Asia. Rubin said it was for Mexico's own good. But some suspect it was mostly for the good of Golman Sachs.
So it wasn't so much American prosperity as it was American cronies extending big government beyond the American border in the Goldman Sachs version of globalism.
But look what Rubin's intervention did in Mexico. It replaced the corrupt Clintonesque PRI with the libertarian leaning pro-captialist PAN Vicente Fox. Some people are upset that Fox (now ex-Presidente) is criticizing Trump. But understand; Fox criticism is like Rand Paul criticism.
Non enforcement of laws and mucho welfaro.
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