Posted on 08/21/2007 12:18:45 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The flood of foreign labor pouring into the U.S., the European Union and other hospitable environs has brought political strains. In the U.S., President George W. Bush and Senator Edward M. Kennedy failed to win passage of an immigration reform bill that the President viewed as legacy legislation. In Europe, France's new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been busy promising to get tough on immigrants and erecting roadblocks to Turkey's bid for European Union membership.
These are only the latest shots in a long and ultimately futile debate about immigration policy. There is little chance of stemming migrant inflows, as long as the countries supplying immigrants embrace policies that effectively mandate labor dumping.
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Today Mexico is the world's largest labor dumper and the source of much of the contentious U.S. immigration reform debate. Surprisingly, the political combatants on both sides of the debate fail to mention the source of the problem: Mexico's statist economy. Like Yugoslavia, Mexico can't produce enough jobs. According to the World Bank's Doing Business 2007 report, Mexico's labor market ranks 108th out of 175 countries in terms of the ease of hiring and firing workers and labor-market flexibility.
Rather than modernize the economy, Mexico's politicians use Tito's broom. Mexico's 47 consulates in the U.S., more than any other country has, facilitate the sweeping by issuing passports and offering assistance when Mexican immigrants run into trouble. Thus 30% of Mexico's labor force is working in the U.S., and in 2006 they sent home $23 billion, 12% of Mexico's exports.
Although, as a percentage of population, it's not that much more as a percentage of population than came here back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for much the same reasons.
Respectfully, has your husband considered the expansion of welfare programs that would entail? As well the loss of control of our own political destiny? A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year. on folks who shouldn't even be here.
These same folks are amassing more political power than the locals. Squeaky wheel and all that. They are becoming our masters.
Regards
I've watched the CATO institute for a long time. In some issues they are useful in taking on the control obsession of the federal government (politicians), and I'm always hoping they would come through with more thoughtful analyses. But they consistently miss the issue. It is like they are SO libertarian, and so reactonarily shotgun, that they totally disregard the essence of responsibility, of individuals, organizations, and in this case, nations (i.e. Mexico).
It seems The Washington DC "think tanks", the Brookings Institution, the CFR, CATO, have become so effete, pandering, and arrogant, they never come close. They are like clones of the United States Senate, or the converse.
Canada, although Mexico does give us a lot. But their reserves are likely to dry up in a decade or so.
The economic and political consequences of the reunification of East and West Germany are probably applicable when one considers the idea of annexing Mexico.
Political theory in latin america is ‘special’. That’s the PC was of putting it.
I’m sort of thankful this was a British ran country (for a while). It seems the philosophy bestowed upon us is fairly good; while spanish conquered land is stuck in the political ‘dumb-dumb zone’.
I don’t disagree with that at all.
I don’t disagree with that at all.
I don’t disagree with that at all.
“Which you are apparently totally unaware of, or you wouldn’t make such a statement.”
I will ask anything I want. I made no statement you hyped up buffoon. I asked a question.
I was just discussing that threat (of the drug cartels and their level of corruption spreading to the US) with a friend here at the office before I read your post.
You need to learn some manners.
Mexico would start out as a territory or protectorate, with no electoral votes (like Puerto Rico). The transformation of the corrupt government would take time. But we could reap huge benefits from the natural resources that Mexico has, not to mention the huge benefits to the Mexicans themselves. They obviously have no clue how to run an honest government.
And, No, not all cultures are equal. Our American culture is unique, special, worth preserving, worth fighting for, and better than ANY other culture on the planet, now and in the past.
I hope you're joking. We are so well off we need to import impoverished, uneducated Mexicans so they can avail themselves of all the giveaway programs that conservatives don't believe that Americans should have? Do you have even the vaguest idea what either "Mexico as a state" or the SPP would cost taxpayers and what it would do to the country? The Mexicans would be so busy importing and selling citizenship to anyone who could get to their "state," it would make the drug business look like a loser!
I have always thought the same thing. All colonizers are not the same. Most of the Spanish colony's are a damn mess and they don't blame Spain, they blame us. Now it is seems it is us that is being colonized.
Regards
“The US has accepted 20-30million economic refugees. More than any country at any time in the history of the world.”
“Although, as a percentage of population, it’s not that much more as a percentage of population than came here back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for much the same reasons.”
The 20-30 million illegal latin American aliens, mostly Mexicans I’m concluding, that have come to this country in the last twenty years are not much more than all of the various northern and southern European immigrants, many educated and skilled, that immigrated here legally in both the 19th and 20th centuries?
Since you put it that way . . . well, that makes me feel a lot better:
See tagline.
A welfare state cannot co-exist with mass immigration. It's something that Europe discovered long ago
We need a President who isn’t OWNED by Mexico and the globalists!!
If it ever happened I think it would happen just like you are saying.
(Of course a sizable chunk of them are already voting her illegally anyway.)
“We need a President who isn’t OWNED by Mexico and the globalists!!”
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That’s been very difficult to do for the last seven (and very possibly the next) Presidential elections.
“Labor Dumping”
A term we need to remember!
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