Posted on 10/28/2014 10:00:28 AM PDT by xzins
In discussing U.S. immigration policy on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show,” U.S. Senate Tom Cotton (R-AR) cited illegal immigration as a “major issue” in his race in Arkansas, while also pointing out that based upon non-partisan analysis, the so called Gang of Eight bill previously passed by the Senate "would both drive down wages in America and increase unemployment".
"I think we need to get Americans back to work before we worry about increasing the number of guest workers, or temporary visa holders we have in the country," he added.
“In so many ways, this bill is just like Obamacare -- not just the slap-dash manner it ran through the Senate but also in the big, cumbersome, unwieldy, very complicated undertaking that will begin to collapse under its own weight, and [it is] nothing more than amnesty without any enforcement,” Cotton told RCP, echoing what many House Republicans said after their immigration strategy meeting last week.
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Economics 101:
Increase supply of workers and bidding for workers will take a nose dive.
Increase supply of workers for a limited number of jobs and, obviously, the number without jobs will increase.
Paging Captain Obvious!
Labor participation has plummeted under Zero, and anyone who thinks this ISN’T intentional is kidding themselves. Shut down of the private sector, slowly but steadily since 2008.. ‘Cloward & Piven’ in slow motion but accelerated since 2008.
I agree...however, send him to the Democrats and GOPe. They’re the ones who refuse (to admit that they) see this.
If de facto amnesty is adopted, wages will be suppressed for the lower-skill jobs to the point of minimum wage. Individuals who have college degrees will also feel downward wage pressure as the process will also legalize a lot of tech workers. The result is that wages will be held low or driven lower throughout the US economy and the population will be increasingly populated with the “baby bird” Democrats.
We will have drones for people working and a dearth of scientists, accountants, doctors and physicists—due to Common Core.
All with the support of a supposed government that preys on everyone.
Right on. This is absolutely correct.
Every time I hear a Republican, even the most well-intentioned one, mention Commie Care so objectively, I get angry. Because they’re exempt. It’s not a “class warfare” kind of thing, because I don’t envy people who are more wealthy than I am, or think they should have to share their own wealth (crony capitalism is a different animal). But laws that exempt the lawmakers from the onerous burdens they impose on the rest of us are a different thing, and I don’t understand how any patriotic Congressman wouldn’t stay angry at that being done to his fellow Americans.
Don’t explain this to Obama. He’ll make it a priority policy. ...Well, uh, he already has. If it is bad for America, it has a champion in Obama.
“De facto”has already been implemented, with Obola’s recent welcome mat to the hundreds of thousands of illegals who crossed the border in the space of a couple of weeks, and were dispersed around the country to get on the parasite wagon. That was just one, big, obvious cluster of them-a smaller steady stream pours across our unsecured border constantly.
Not necessarily so - nothing that an aspiring civil service bureaucrat runt working for the BLS could not take care of by decreasing the denominator of Americans working.
Democrats want a proletariat. America never had a proletariat before illegal immigration:
Balint Vazsonyi, 10-02-02
Over the past few years, it seems, everybody and his brother speaks about the capitalist system in America. Before, using the word was the hallmark of marxist training or influence. Yet lately, everybody is using the word - regardless of political leaning.
It bothers me because capitalism - the word and the concept - was the brainchild of Karl Marx. As well as offering an “-ism” opposite his own -ism, it describes a rigid class society in which one class possesses the means of production, the other nothing except its labor. The latter class is called “The Proletariat” who, as Lenin declared, can lose nothing but its chains when it rises against the oppressor.
This is not the place to argue whether capitalism was the appropriate way to describe certain European societies. The point is that owning things has always been open to Americans. The moment you buy one share of stock, you part-own “means of production,” not to mention owning your home and arriving at your place of work in your own automobile - a very American image.
America never had a proletariat.
http://balintvazsonyi.org/shns/shns100202.html
Tom Cotton is one of the few bright spots of this election cycle.
I support “clean” capitalism. I don’t support what needs a better defining term than “crony capitalism”-government choosing the winners and losers through bailouts and subsidies with the taxpayer’s money.
Not the government ‘number’ but the reality of people without jobs.
Don’t underestimate the importance of Cotton taking this position.
He is being supported by the likes of Hugh Hewitt and other GOPe stooges, so if Cotton really means it then he is staking out a position on the side of the American people and against the GOPe and the Chamber of Commerce.
It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants and minorities by flooding the labor market with ILLEGAL Immigrants.
The true goal of amnesty is NOT “to drive down wages in America and increase unemployment”.
Amnesty is the final stake in America and our Constitution to grant voter status to 40 MILLION ILLEGAL INVADERS who will ALWAYS vote for more free stuff.
This will guarantee a leftist Federal govt & SCOTUS for the next 100 years at the very least.
Combined with CommieCare, America becomes a leftwing Communist dicktatorship.
FOREVER.
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