printIn October, I blogged Pat Buchanan’s timely call for a moratorium on immigration. Peter Brimelow of VDARE.COM has timed his demand for such a logical move with the clueless Obama’s Job Summit. In an article for WorlNetDaily.com titled “Putting Americans Back To Work,” Peter exhorts:
“Incredibly, despite the recession, about 125,000 legal immigrants and “temporary” workers a month – as many as 1.5 million a year – are still entering the U.S.
And, with some 15 million Americans unemployed, there are still an estimated 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs here.
Indeed, the Obama Administration has repeatedly promised that it will try to amnesty these illegals next year. This would end any hope that they might eventually leave the American job market. In fact, because there’s usually a fair degree of back-and-forth across the border in the illegal-alien population, the administration’s repeated promises of amnesty are probably discouraging departures.
Democrats and Republicans have been bickering about whether the Obama administration’s stimulus package really created the claimed 650,000 jobs.
But during the same period, twice that number of legal immigrants and “temporary” workers entered the U.S. – easily swamping even the most optimistic estimate of jobs created. …
It’s literally a holy cause with them, and they react very nastily if you question it. You even sometimes find economists making easily refuted claims that immigration does not impact U.S. employment and incomes – in other words, that the laws of supply and demand have been repealed, uniquely, in the area of immigration.
In contrast, contrary to stereotype, critics of immigration policy are generally rational. What’s not rational about supply and demand?
But why don’t MSM journalists at least ask policymakers about the option of an immigration moratorium as a way of reducing unemployment?
There’s the usual liberal media bias, needless to say.
But my own theory (which will probably sound weird to anyone who hasn’t spent the years I have in establishment financial journalism!) is that it goes beyond bias. Journalists don’t ask about an immigration moratorium because nobody else has asked about it. The idea would just never occur to them on their own.
Call it intellectual inertia – if you want to be kind.”
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Peter is indeed too kind. I’ve tied this mindless ennui to the “Age of the Idiot.”
The ennui may just be the passive means to the liberals’ end – expand the egalitarian franchise. From George Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” to the liberals’ “Nobody Left Behind” is not much of a philosophical leap. And how can insisting a few million “American dreamers”, whether illegals, felons, and even idiots, have a vested interest in the nation fail to ennoble the impulse. I mean… what’s there to question… or… why take the chance?
Who’s kidding who? We all know why nothing has been done about illegal immigration and why nothing is going to be done. The illegals represent a massive voting block just waiting to fall in with the political party that toadies to them first with the most. Watch for SEIU or some other smart, aggresive union to start getting them lined up. The illegals are perfect. Rat hole native countries who are glad to be rid of so many mouths to feed, usually no education, and a hungry work ethic that brings tears to the eyes of American industrialists who have long grown accustomed to indifferent and mediocre American unionized workers. It’s a real hard-to-handle mess. I’m reminded of the fellow trying to urinate into a strong wind. The wind is blowing northward from the Rio Grande.
OK, 20 million are unemployed or unemployed but not a single American will do XXX type of work even for a zillion chillion gazillion dollars (the free market never works!) so we need skilled workers from Obscuristan.
Perhaps some “trained professionals” like Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
What Americans need are “meaningful” stimulated jobs such as trained Unionized school teachers, health care auditors, transportation security administration boob fondlers, and General Motors assembly line workers.
And in today’s news – there were 5 attacks in Baghdad blowing up over 100 people. This “proves” that WE NEED TROOPS THERE. If there were no attacks in Baghdad, this would “prove” that THE SURGE IS WORKING. The theory is never wrong regardless of the facts.
If the temperature rises, this is GLOBAL WARMING. If the temperature drops, we are facing the NEW ICE AGE. If the temperature remains the same, this is UNPREDICTABLE CLIMATE. No matter what, we need more government control. The theory is never wrong regardless of the facts.
What we need are more immigrants, more surges, more stimulus packages, more credit, more jobs, more health care, more government, MORE HOPE N. CHANGE. Have faith in government – we know what is best.
The president is still listening to dead economists. “http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_jobs” We have to spend our way out of this downturn, though he hasn’t named a number for the new “federal jobs stimulus” the economy is sure to take another massive hit.
Clearly, we have been transported into a parallel universe where anything is possible by wishing it so. This is a wonderous place ruled by everyone and no one simultaneously. The laws – natural or human natural – don’t matter because sometimes they are inconvenient to our view of this universe, so we wish them away, and miraculously they vanish and we are all happy, and start wishing for more. In this universe affirmative action is only applied to sports people, rather than pilots and brain surgeons. And everyone earns the same amount of money, and husbands and wives are faithful to each other, and gravity is what you will it to be so that your weight is a good number.
Oh, and in this world government can create jobs and everyone is fully incentivized to work 24/7 even though the tax rate is 99% on the first dollar and 101% on every dollar thereafter.
It is clearly a magical universe! Alas, we are not in that universe, but, rather, in the universe of full gravity and humans who are neither born equal nor equally productive. And in this universe government must minimize taxes so that jobs can be created by the creative ones.
Alas – it is a cruel universe!!