Further paradoxical hypocrisy of progs on the immigration issue; youll never hear progs say that we should help Mexican family remain intact and stay in their homeland by moving our low-skilled service and factory jobs to Mexico, but that is the effective result of their open-border policy. However, instead of moving the jobs south of the border, we just let the workers cross over and take these jobs here. Capital or labor, which do you prefer cross the border? Sadly, Mexico doesnt have a system where each individual can produce more than he can consume. America is already coming too close to that tipping point ourselves to admit another wave of workers to compete with our currently unemployed. I say some of this with my tongue firmly in cheek because I still believe America is the land of the marginally free and the enterprisingly brave; that there is still much money to be made and that there is still plenty of opportunity for an individual to create a place in our economy where he produces far more than he consumes and thereby positively adds to our nations total wealth. Believing this, I smile upon the waves of immigrants that have come to join our workforce and add to our wealth; its been a win/win. But I frown on their not assimilating but rather supplanting American culture, and I bark at their increasingly coming here to seize upon the massive endowments of our vast welfare state and thereby devour and decrease our nations overall wealth while simultaneously devour and demolish the social capital of our shared culture. Devouring our wealth and supplanting our culture is lose/lose. If we sent Mexico our wealth in foreign aid or our capital investment by moving factories down there, wed be in better shape because at least wed not have our Western ways supplanted. These are largely abstract musings for the real answer is twofold: Firstly, renew our faith in, and remove the encumbrances and obstacles of, the market economy; one based on free enterprise, free prices, property rights, and fair competition for the purposes of combating economic concentration. And secondly, admitting immigrants who aspire to assimilate and produce rather than merely consume and remain unAmerican. By remaining true to market economy and our distinct American culture (a melting pot, not a stew) we can continue to thrive and admit massive waves of immigrants to join us. And our entrepreneurs will export enterprise and enable Mexicans to do jobs Americans wont do and the Mexican wont have to leave home or learn another language to do it. And perhaps then someday, Mexico will reach that point where their market economy enables each of their own people to produce more than they can consume and the wealth of that nation will rise as well.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:42:03 +0000
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