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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


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

Headline is a lie. Thee is no Muslim ban! (There should be, but there isn’t)


61 posted on 02/07/2017 11:57:13 AM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

I call Bull Squat. More globalist scare tactics/agitprop.


62 posted on 02/07/2017 11:58:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Why are you being so nice?


63 posted on 02/07/2017 11:59:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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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 perhaps also set off bombs.


64 posted on 02/07/2017 12:02:54 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: fivecatsandadog
If this scribe favors open borders, let him say so.

If he believes American lives are worth the risk, let him explain why.

65 posted on 02/07/2017 12:10:35 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: fivecatsandadog

STOP ADOPTING THE LANGUAGE OF THE LIEBERALS!!! It is NOT a muslim ban. It is NOT a travel ban.

And really? The US economy CAN’T survive without 6 months without Somali and Sudanese immigrants?


66 posted on 02/07/2017 12:11:28 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: TomasUSMC

Indeed.

All they are doing is paving over original lands, farmland, prairie, crowding the cities, urban sprawl, destroying habitats, causing pollution, traffic, education issues, crime, drugs, overpopulation, welfare, conflicts, terror

We don’t need them. It hardly makes sense to abort a million Americans a year and replace them with unappreciative Third Worlders.

And since we can’t take them all, why take any? Isnt that what the left tells us . .since we can’t kick em all out, why deport any one?


67 posted on 02/07/2017 12:15:15 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: fivecatsandadog

OMG! A trade war with Yemen! Our economy will tank! Where will we get our child sex slaves?


68 posted on 02/07/2017 12:19:23 PM PST by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: fivecatsandadog

OMG! A trade war with Yemen! Our economy will tank! Where will we get our child sex slaves?


69 posted on 02/07/2017 12:19:23 PM PST by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: fivecatsandadog

It’s not a Muslim ban.

Fake news.


70 posted on 02/07/2017 12:21:10 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Rebelrage

Don’t forget the Sudan and Somalia too!


71 posted on 02/07/2017 12:21:17 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: fivecatsandadog

They didnt care about businesses under obama, suffering, because of government edicts by the fairy king.


72 posted on 02/07/2017 12:33:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Regulator

Not because they were big fish in a small pond but rather because pride and arrogance is baked into their culture. It is the reason they find Islam so attractive - it appeals to their toxic pride.


73 posted on 02/07/2017 1:07:58 PM PST by Ford4000
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To: fivecatsandadog
Great facts. Much pie charts

Ed

74 posted on 02/07/2017 1:29:38 PM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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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. The whole prospect of immigration discrimination is un-American.

Saudi Arabia is not on the list....terrorism is un-American as is being beheaded. Tell your friend to stay home, join his country's military and restore order to his own country.

75 posted on 02/07/2017 2:37:22 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: fivecatsandadog

One can always count on Forbes to look stupid several times a day.


76 posted on 02/07/2017 3:02:16 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Its all those IT specialists and coders coming out of those countries - those people are extremely well educated and literate - just look to all those Somalis in MN ... /s


77 posted on 02/07/2017 3:38:26 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: fivecatsandadog

So how much of US business comes from those seven countries? There are some students from those nations, but as far as large amounts of money coming into the US economy, I don’t think a 90 day or 120 day pause or ban or what have you, is going to make a hill of beans difference in our economy.


78 posted on 02/07/2017 5:25:44 PM PST by SuziQ
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