GONE IN A DAY: YEAR'S SUPPLY OF 'SKILLED' VISAS

Miami Herald ^ | Oct. 06, 2004 | Herald Staff and Wire Reports

[traviskicks]

Free Trade IS a conservative idea.
Wrong.
----
It is by definition. Conservativism, as defined is complete economic freedom, with social limitations. Libertarianism is complete economic freeedom with no social limitiations. Liberalism is restricted economic freedom with no social limitiations. Popularism is restricted economic and restricted social behavior.


On Reagan:
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-24-04.html


Here is another quote for you:

Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, & a very unexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
-Thomas Jefferson

[traviskicks]

NAFTA has been so successful the "coyotes" who smuggle the poor of Mexico have raised their rates to what the market can now afford. ICE buddies advise the going rate was $500 ten years ago, now runs $2000.
---

I'm not sure what that statistic proves. From china it runs $60,000 / a head.

On NAFTA and its success:

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=2&issue=20051118

Chavez attacked Fox precisely because Mexico is one of the world's leading emblems of free trade. It has signed 27 trade pacts, more than any other country except Chile, and not just with the U.S. and Canada. It's also doing business with heavies like Japan, the European Union, South Korea and rising stars like Chile. It's about to sign another with Central America.

Naysayers warned that Mexico would drag the bigger economies down. At the same time, they claimed free trade would impoverish Mexico as big corporations somehow took over.

Instead, Mexico's gross domestic product has doubled to $1 trillion.In terms of GDP per capita, Mexico's was $6,090 in 1995 while Venezuela's was $5,640. By 2002, Venezuela's under Chavez was $5,380 and Mexico's under Fox was $8,970.

Markets tell an even stronger story: In 1987, the capitalizations of the Mexican and Venezuelan stock markets were roughly the same at $10 billion, according to Venezuelan investment banker Miguel Octavio. Today, Mexico's market cap is close to $164 billion, while Venezuela's is less than $5 billion.

[Alouette]

The unprecedented rush for temporary visas for those skilled foreign workers demonstrates U.S. companies' pent-up demand for candidates in such technical fields as engineering, mathematics and research.

Can't they find any Americans who have these skills, who don't mind working for $6 an hour?

[investigateworld]

Actually, people voting with their feet tells a bigger story, but I don't want to 'jack the thread.

As far as Mexico, I won't even drink their water, why would I trust their gov't statistics?

[Paul Ross]

It is by definition.

Nope. The definition of conservative, is George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and the GOP-defined trade policies from 1860 forward until FDR.

As I have said before, Reagan was an ardent follower of FDR, and had only partially cleansed his mind of the pollution. If you note, Reagan NEVER eliminated MFN status with any enemy nations. He conducted an exquisite technology trade war against the Soviets. And surely would not have done so with a clear enemy such as we have in China.

BTW: Jefferson changed his mind about free trade, after the War of 1812. It will likely take another war with a great power before you ever face reality.

We who see it, have done our part, and warned you. I don't look forward to having to tell you I told you so...because it will mean absolute disaster has in fact resulted from blindly pursued policies of yours.