So these guys are STEM professionals?:
Kudlow is another pollyanna on immigration. And I’ve had it with such morons.
Then the GOP must be destroyed. Reaching out to pro-abortion, anti-gun, and pro-amnesty types will lose them their base.
Bite me, Larry.
/johnny
Larry Kudlow can s@ck it. Don’t confuse immigration reform, meaning what in the heck we need to do with all these dozens of millions of ILLEGALS with actual law abiding, LEGAL immigrants.
Frankly, I don’t give a crap what Larry Kudlow thinks.
Larry Kudlow makes his living spouting establishment Republicanism as the token voice of the not-too-vocal loyal opposition. I’m tired of these ideological traitors.
Secure the border first, then we’ll talk about the ones already in the country.
Now lets target RINO TN Sen lamar alexander..OATH BREAKER OF 2 TERMS AND OUT!
State Rep Joe Carr has a conservative record you can check out.
Free market economics has nothing to do with securing the border.
” However, I still believe that harsh language on illegals turns off legal Hispanic voters. It also turns off Asians, African Americans, young people, and women.”
Oh really? I’m two of those categories and i’m turned off by illegal immigration. he’s the one with “wild-eyed extremist” views.
He's put it in a beer bong and chugging it down!
This is your mind on drugs.
Let's import more uneducated, unskilled workers, while millions of our own uneducated, unskilled workers collect welfare every month.
This is your mind on crack cocaine.
A corporatist who preaches privatized profits and subsidized losses chimes in for cheap labor.
So be it. You either believe in sovereignty or you don't. As I've told black friends who ask me "what is the republican party going to do for me," I answer. Other than fight for your right to be a free man, nothing. You either believe in freedom or you don't. And freedom should not be something that's only pursued by white people. There's no "white man's freedom," and "black man's freedom," there's only freedom.
The same with sovereignty. Try getting into Mexico without a visa. Try immigrating to any European country, or even Canada, by just walking through the gates. And as Milton Friedman used to say, as much as he was for open borders in theory, as long as America is a welfare state, we can't afford to have open borders.
Larry is unfortunately ignorant and close-minded—a terrible combination—the illegal issue.
Milton Friedman: “you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state”. See http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2007/06/look-to-milton-open-borders-and-the-welfare-state
I generally like Larry Kudlow, but he’s so very wrong on this. He’s ignoring the economic concept of externalities. Yes, immigration frees up the labor market! That’s all benefit, right? Wrong! There are costs involved. Massive costs.
1) The drain on the welfare system. Despite what every immigration enthusiast tells me, every Mexican I see at Walmart is paying with an EBT card. Every. Single. One. 100%
2) The drain on the health care system. Now that we are all truly in this together, how can adding more at the bottom possibly help?
3) The drain on the criminal justice system. Facts are racist.
4) The political cost. No matter how much outreach the GOPe does, the vast majority of immigrants from the 3rd world will vote for Democrats. They want free stuff. Their culture has no history of any of the traditions or institutions that have made this country EXCEPTIONAL.
My ancestors didn’t leave the 3rd world to have it follow them here. Dismantle the welfare system and Obamacare, then we can talk about allowing more in. Will they still want to come? I doubt it.
How nice. So Kudlow won’t mind if I break into his house and take up residence ?
That is like saying restricting embezzlement, insider trading, and financial fraud is violating "free-market economic principles". We have immigration laws. Tens of millions of legal immigrants have worked within those laws to strengthen our nation, and assimilate into it. Lawbreaking invaders harm all Americans by decimating wages, refusing to assimilate and bankrupting schools, hospitals and social services across the nation, while contributing little, and sending most of their earnings back home.
So these guys are STEM professionals?:
I don’t understand how anyone can argue that a massive influx of unskilled labor won’t have any effect on wages. I’m in favor of a balanced and consistent immigration policy, I’m not a close the gates type, but an open borders policy favoring unskilled and uneducated workers with 95 million Americans not working is just insane.
Can’t do any immigration reform (or anything else) with a lying dictator in office.
If we ever do get an executive that follows the constitution, immigration reform should be border control, encouraging wealthy and highly skilled immigrants, and a guest worker program in that order.
An influx of 3rd world socialists and welfare cases is not a good economic policy even if it does improve demographic trends.
“A lot of people have the idea there are a fixed number of jobs. But immigrants can boost productivity of the overall economy, because then the pie grows and there are more jobs for other people as well, and there is not a zero-sum tradeoff between natives and immigrants.”
The pie’s not growing though, so this argument is moot. The pie has been shrinking for years, and these idiots want to let foreigners come in and fight with us for the scraps.