crusher123,
You’re welcome.
Here’s another article where Schlafly lays out how ‘free trade’ is great among the states of the US but never works among nations.
“Absolute free trade between countries does not exist. While some pay lip service to free trade, all countries (except perhaps the United States) manage their trade to serve their own national interests”
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1996/mar96/psrmar96.html
The so called ‘free trade’ agreements are administered by unelected bureaucrats who are ‘citizens of the word’.
These agreements over ride our national sovereignty and our immigration laws. We are bound by treaty to bring in x number of immigrants and guest workers per year regardless of the situation of the domestic labor market and even security concerns.
The guest workers become illegal by overstaying their visas; it is not unusual for legal immigrants to arrive here and land immediately on the dole.
On the one hand I am against the minimum wage. on the other the labor market has been manipulated for the benefit of the global corporate and financial elite. Many are shocked to learn that those of us in STEM field compete with illegals.
In addition to encouraging a culture of independence, an increase in the minimum wage combined with immigration for benefit of the entire US not just a select few would dramatically shrink the entire inefficient entitlement apparatus.
khelus,
That was an even better article than the first.
“Many are shocked to learn that those of us in STEM field compete with illegals.”
I’m not, that is the whole point of the H1-B visa program. With Tele-medicine they can even do much of that work (Medical) over the internet. Some of it is already done and the rest would just require some legal changes.
As a country we really need to start looking out for our own best interest first. The Margin for error is long gone.