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Here's How the Trump Muslim Ban Will Slam U.S. Economy
Forbes ^ | 2/1/17 | John Wasik

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; muslim
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To: fivecatsandadog

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!!!!!


41 posted on 02/07/2017 11:02:42 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Its for ninety FREAKIN DAYS man,...


42 posted on 02/07/2017 11:05:05 AM PST by Paradox (I think we should start referring to them as the “Alt-Wrong".)
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To: fivecatsandadog
John Wasik
is a complete
BLOW-HARD

43 posted on 02/07/2017 11:07:55 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: Mr. K

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??


44 posted on 02/07/2017 11:08:59 AM PST by Professional
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To: fivecatsandadog

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.


45 posted on 02/07/2017 11:09:14 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: fivecatsandadog

I had no idea Trump signed a muslim ban. I gotta start paying more attention!


46 posted on 02/07/2017 11:10:12 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: TomasUSMC

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....


47 posted on 02/07/2017 11:11:09 AM PST by Professional
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To: fivecatsandadog

Oh no! We’re doomed. Hurry better get more Muslims in here now.


48 posted on 02/07/2017 11:13:59 AM PST by Kudsman (Trump or bust 2016!)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Another ignorant idiot.


49 posted on 02/07/2017 11:15:37 AM PST by mulligan
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To: fivecatsandadog

If John Wasik is against it, I am for it.


50 posted on 02/07/2017 11:17:02 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: miss marmelstein

It’s a fair bet that he plans to be an immigration attorney, creating a pipeline for more ME immigrants to come over.


51 posted on 02/07/2017 11:21:22 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

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.”

red


52 posted on 02/07/2017 11:24:25 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: fivecatsandadog
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

Great! He's probably a bottom feeding immigration lawyer intent on protecting the "rights" of Jihadis.

53 posted on 02/07/2017 11:28:09 AM PST by Gritty (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. - Iowahawk)
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To: TigerClaws

That was kind of what I was thinking...lol


54 posted on 02/07/2017 11:28:16 AM PST by wild74
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To: wild74

I don’t know of any Muslim Ban


55 posted on 02/07/2017 11:36:23 AM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: fivecatsandadog
Promising researchers, engineers, academics and other professionals...

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.

56 posted on 02/07/2017 11:40:24 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: fivecatsandadog

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?).


57 posted on 02/07/2017 11:43:23 AM PST by zek157
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To: Louis Foxwell
Not only is President Trump’s moratorium not a ban on Muislims, it is not a ban on anyone else. It is a short-term stopgap measure intended to be replaced with more effective vetting procedures.

Needs to be constantly repeated so anyone influenced by the FAKE news organizations can explicitly understand what PRESIDENT Trump wants to accomplish.

58 posted on 02/07/2017 11:44:48 AM PST by A message
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To: Hoffer Rand

Exactly what I was thinking.


59 posted on 02/07/2017 11:54:21 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: fivecatsandadog

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 . . .


60 posted on 02/07/2017 11:55:57 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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