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Saturday, 01 August 2009 |
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Geraldo Rivera has two great ideas in his new book “The Great Progression” and he writes them in a way that can help to facilitate a larger nation discussion. The book is due out in September 2009 and I recommend it.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
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The healthcare debate is dominating the summer political agenda. Except of course when it is interrupted by the frenzy about Michael Jackson’s death or the Gates-Cambridge Police imbroglio. Immigration has been pushed off the front burner. The Obama administration is making symbolic moves that make people feel better about the plight of immigrants but the real trend continues to be extremely negative and it seems that the political forces are aligning to “solve” the current immigration crisis without addressing the underlying causes.
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
In response to the review we wrote of Aviv Chomsky’s book They Take Our Jobs we received from a reader named "Chaos" a list of what he claims are myths from the pro-immigrant side of the argument. Although we don't agree with each of these myths we have addressed the key part of each of them in green below. In the original the myths are followed by “chaos’s" rebuttal. To improve readability I have put that rebuttal in a link behind each myth.
Chaos writes: Advocates for allowing more aliens to immigrate illegally and legally to the USA have a battery of myths, bad arguments and outright lies -- in a word propaganda -- that they use to further their cause.
Myth #1) Aliens do jobs that Americans won't, therefore there is no harm to Americans.
Radical Immigration: The world economy is very complex. When people move around they do take each other’s jobs. Why is this a problem when people come from Mexico and take jobs in California but not when people come from Ohio and take jobs in Florida?
In classical economic theory and in the reality that we all observe every day wages are lower where there is a labor surplus. But labor supply is not a static situation. When wages rise, in order to compete, an employer can move production, automate or even totally redesign the product. Restricting the flow of goods, capital and labor have long-term bad consequences and yet they remain politically popular. At Radical Immigration we listen to the economic arguments and then we make the case that responsible people should be able to live where they choose. The economics will work themselves out.
The economic arguments for and against immigration are not conclusive the moral arguments clearly favors allowing responsible people to live where they choose.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 25 July 2009 )
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 |
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Fences don't work
California Senators Boxer and Feinstein both voted in favor of spending more money on building the border wall. You can let them know you oppose the wall by signing the petition at this site:
http://www.boxerfeinsteinbetrayal.org/
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 |
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Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows.
The wonderful title of this immigration book is revealing and enticing. Its argument and assumptions are also revealing and to me much less enticing.
The technique of starting with the “myths” about immigration, or any topic, and then exposing that the myths are not grounded in facts is a very good way of writing a persuasive book.
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