Posted on 02/07/2017 10:29:09 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
The travel curbs on people coming in from selected Muslim countries is going to hurt the U.S. economy. President Trump and his advisers are bamboozling Americans into thinking that it's all about national security.
The ill-conceived, cruel restriction of just a handful of Muslim-dominated countries is a sideshow to some harmful moves that Trump has promised. A potential trade war will cripple the U.S. economy in a number of ways. It starts with restricting people from emigrating to the U.S.
Financial markets on Monday initially reacted negatively to the Trump ban. The value of the dollar relative to other world currencies also declined.
Most of all, any punitive immigration ban discourages people who want to start businesses and prosper in the U.S. from emigrating. I know a young Syrian lawyer who's trying to move here from Saudi Arabia to start a business in America and is stymied in his diligent efforts to start a new life. The whole prospect of immigration discrimination is un-American.
Promising researchers, engineers, academics and other professionals will stay away from the U.S. if the know they're not welcome or will be routinely detained and interrogated at U.S. airports. I know one Iranian scholar who's been arrested and detained in his own country and came to the U.S. for academic and religious freedom.
Of course, leading minds in any field have their choice of countries in which to settle and work. They can go to Canada or Europe, or perhaps China, which is always trying to recruit top intellects.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
With over 300 HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY....WE DON’T NEED MORE PEOPLE.
Train Americans
Employ Americans
Lend to Americans
Help A M E R I C A N S!!!!!
Its for ninety FREAKIN DAYS man,...
Yeah, no kidding. F U Forbes...
If the US is so fragile economically, that we can’t survive 90 days without open borders with terror connected nations, perhaps we should rethink our economy??
Of course, leading minds in any field have their choice of countries in which to settle and work.
And believe me, they want to work in America all day long.
They’ll be fine.
People act like America some “Fast Pass” when it comes to visiting.
If you have ever traveled to other countries and stood in line for hours before detecting the line was even moving, you would know America is the fastest place to go through customs.
I had no idea Trump signed a muslim ban. I gotta start paying more attention!
You’d have to be a liberal econ professor to somehow believe...
that improving the economy here is done by bringing in people that can’t speak the language, have any money, have no job skills, and subscribe to a religion that demands they are to kill us....
Oh no! We’re doomed. Hurry better get more Muslims in here now.
Another ignorant idiot.
If John Wasik is against it, I am for it.
It’s a fair bet that he plans to be an immigration attorney, creating a pipeline for more ME immigrants to come over.
Mr. Wasik, does the two words “imported food” ring a bell? How about 3% of their economy being sent by us used for the “oil for food program?” Or maybe you’d like to discuss the billions of dollars currently being flooded into that region by the US for aide?
My old man said it best, “Don’t defecate where you eat.”
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Great! He's probably a bottom feeding immigration lawyer intent on protecting the "rights" of Jihadis.
That was kind of what I was thinking...lol
I don’t know of any Muslim Ban
Oh please! 90+% of them are illiterates, as even the Merkel regime had to admit some short time ago. Hint: there's a good reason those countries are 3rd world sh!t holes.
This is opinion posing as facts. I’d like to see how many employees are actually impacted by the 90 and 120 day ban.
Besides, even if it were true, there has to be thousands of Indian workers available to take up any slack (can’t employ Americans now can we?).
Needs to be constantly repeated so anyone influenced by the FAKE news organizations can explicitly understand what PRESIDENT Trump wants to accomplish.
Exactly what I was thinking.
what has additional security post 911 cost the economy, huh?
How much time in labor is lost by having to arrive early and go thru TSA checks?
What has been the budgetary cost of TSA and related expenditures?
How much cost is there to having the Syrian lawyer stand in line at his imputed billing rate? How about lawyers in high priced big law firms?
What effect does using FBI resources to chase 1,000+ cases in all 50 states cost us in terms of tax $$$ and opportunity lost to other crimes?
What effect did 911 have on the economy? How’d the economy and markets do in the aftermath? How long did it take to recover? Do you think a Syrian lawyer’s contribution is a drop in the bucket or a drop in the ocean compared thereto?
But wait, there’s more . . .
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