Posted on 05/30/2021 7:56:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In her quest to find all those root causes for the current migrant surge into the U.S., Kamala Harris has focused on Central America, where two-thirds of the illegal aliens pouring over our border are coming from.
And not surprisingly, instead of going to the border and asking a border surger about it, or even doing diplomacy, as she claims, she's got big plans to bring in huge corporations and NGOs to the region, kind of like the United Fruit Company, which lefties in the past have complained about.
It's downright laughable.
Here's her press release:
As part of this Call to Action launch, 12 companies and organizations announced commitments to support inclusive economic development in the Northern Triangle, including: Accion, Bancolombia, Chobani, Davivienda, Duolingo, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mastercard, Microsoft, Nespresso, Pro Mujer, the Tent Partnership for Refugees, and the World Economic Forum.Our comprehensive strategy to address the root causes of migration will involve significant commitments of U.S. government resources to support the long-term development of the region—including efforts to foster economic opportunity, strengthen governance, combat corruption, and improve security. This approach will leverage commitments and resources from the governments in the Northern Triangle, as well as partnerships with multilateral development banks and international financial institutions.Supporting the long-term development of the region, and in the Western Hemisphere more broadly, will require more than just the resources of the U.S. government. For this reason, Vice President Harris is calling on the private sector to draw on its unique resources and expertise to make commitments to support inclusive economic growth in the Northern Triangle. Together, we can work to overcome obstacles to investment, promote economic opportunity, and support long-term development in the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Actually, Those “12” who have “answered” her “Call to Action” are actually just four corporations worth noting, plus a startup — Mastercard, Chobani, Microsoft, Nespresso, and DuoLingo (an app startup with 200+ employees).
The rest are just NGO do-gooders, or else large Colombian banks that already had operations in Central America, not actual new entrants.
Our comprehensive strategy to address the root causes of migration.....
Root Cause ..... BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
Getting the flow going again was the entire reason both parties colluded to cheat Trump out.
There is no desire to stop it.
None.
Except from the citizens.
Harris never met an American job she didn’t want outsourced.
Is that a surprise? As Senator, her and the Republican Party, led by MumbaiMike, was all about outsourcing to India (yes you read that correctly)
“significant commitments of US government resources” = money, our tax dollars. And I’m sure (because it has never happened before) not a cent of that money will be diverted to corrupt officials who will guarantee an untraceable kick-back. As always, follow the money.
In 2001, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto wrote a best-selling book called "The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Thrives in the West and Fails Everywhere Else" describing precisely why these Kamala schemes never work.
He laid out the problem in this passage, emphasis mine:
"Imagine a country where nobody can identify who owns what, addresses cannot easily be verified, people cannot be made to pay their debts, resources cannot immediately be turned into money, ownership cannot be divided into shares, descriptions of assets are not standardised and cannot easily be compared, and the rules that govern property vary from neighbourhood to neighbourhood or even from street to street. You have just put yourself into the life of a developing country or former communist nation; more precisely, you have imagined life for 80% of its population, which is marked off as sharply from its Westernised elite as black and white South Africans were once separated by apartheid.
This 80% majority is not, as Westerners often imagine, desperately impoverished. In spite of their obvious poverty, even those who live under the most grossly unequal regimes possess far more than anybody has ever understood. What they possess, however, is not represented in such a way as to produce additional value. When you step out the door of the Nile Hilton, what you are leaving behind is not a high-technology world of fax machines and ice makers, television and antibiotics. The people of Cairo have access to all those things.
What you are really leaving behind is the world of legally enforceable transactions on property rights. Mortgages and accountable addresses to generate additional wealth are unavailable even to those people in Cairo who would probably strike you as quite rich. Outside Cairo, some of the poorest of the poor live in a district of old tombs called 'the city of the dead.' But almost all of Cairo is a city of the dead – of dead capital, of assets that cannot be used to their fullest. The institutions that give life to capital – that allow one to secure the interests of third parties with work and assets – do not exist here."
Kamala Harris has talked a good game about ending corruption in Central America, which is the sort of thing that festers when locals have to jump through 10,000 hoops to start a business, as if telling government minions not to be corrupt is all it takes to get them to stop. She says nothing about property rights, nothing about the invisible architecture of capitalism, which is what enables people to use their money to create capital to create true economic growth. That is the mystery of capital that de Soto described.
All she's offering in her root cause claim is a goodie shower, and corporate favors, with a dollop of greenie goodness thrown in. By Kamala's logic, if Central America could just go greener and get an electrical grid like California's, they'd all gladly stay home.
Sounds like a plan!
I, for one, have total faith in Nespresso to solve this. I mean, seriously, when delicious coffee beverages are available in every home in Central America, why would the peasants ever want to leave??
Seems that she is also not addressing the continuing American addiction to cocaine and other drugs which of course supports the drug cartels that rule through violent intimidation of the citizenry and corrupt governments there. Imagine cleaning up the scourge of drug addiction in the United States and Canada that would in turn bankrupt these cartels.
At least (during the days of the Batista and Somoza regimes) companies like Del Monte and the United Fruit Company gave steady and meaningful employment to people in Nicaragua and elsewhere as opposed to globalist politicians and corporations today who just want to give handouts.
Let me see. How many ways can this go wrong?
Great post!
Private property Rights, Rule of Law equally applied AND a moral citizen are required.
Not only was de Soto correct, but the magnitude and entrenchment of official corruption even he couldn’t communicate: it’s the basic institution of Latin America.
And for that reason, it’s nearly impossible to fix it.
Surprisingly, AMLO in Mexico appears to be trying and worked with Trump to get things going that direction. This led to positive results not just for the US, but for Mexico - businesses HAVE to have solid, safe institutions. But what did the trash of the US do? Destroyed it all with their theft of the election.
Now a half wit like Harris parrots old solutions? What a joke. It’s just like Trump said yesterday: all they had to do was leave his policies in place.
No one wants to pour money into corrupt dumps. The money shows up as mansions on the hillsides of San Salvador, and the populace lives in the same tin shacks.
Trump used a hard line carrot and stick kick butt take no prisoners approach with the corrupticons there, and it started working.
But Spanish culture is based on the Macho, the Caudillo, the strong man who can take, but not make. Ending that won’t happen overnight, if ever, and until it does, money that goes there will just evaporate...into El Caudillo’s pockets.
She never made where she’s gotten to in life based on her brains.
She never made where she’s gotten to in life based on her brains.
Concepts have eluded her, all the days of her life...
Predictably, the press release sounds like one of those internet refresh pages that simply changes the buzzwords in a sentence every time you hit a refresh button.
Yes, I am sure that Kamala Harris will decrease the corruption of local governments in these countries.
What a idiot.
Biden and Harris = Cheech and Chong Style
DuoLIngo? The free language learning app? What are they going to do? Hire an extra Spanish speaker or two?
Trump did that... But of course Heel up Harris means help get every single poor uneducated citizen of those s holes to America as fast as possible. If, as the democrats say, they are sending their best and brightest, why would central American S holes want them to leave?
She understands one of the prime democrat commandments (besides the first: Win. Period.)
Give money to get money. It explains everything they do that involves budgeting anything they propose.
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