As I hear yet another story of arrests of a Wilmington staffing company that hired more than 1,000 undocumented workers. I wonder to myself, when will we realize that free trade and open borders do not work?
As an anti-communist, anti-liberal, I am the last person to knock on economic freedom. However just like personal freedoms, we cannot allow it to destroy us. There is an incumbent self-destruction to free trade, that is exactly the same as illegal immigration.
If you accept immigrants from all the world, you will have a third world country full of uneducated, unskilled workers who demand more welfare than their output in work. The same goes for free trade, if you accept complete free trade with every country, you will have a noble-serf system, the haves and have nots.
As an entrepeneur, I outsource many jobs to other countries. Am I unpatriotic? No, it’s just insanely cheaper. So my dollar goes over to india and the indian spends it on an indian restaurant, then they spend it on indian clothes, etc.
You get the idea. That dollar is really used 100 times in india, as opposed to 100 times in america. See the loss?
I go out of my way sometimes to hire some americans, but I can only be EXPECTED to do so much, without government intervention. I have no problem with letting some other country gain superiority over America economically for a while, so that america can see the error of their ways. I hope Japan’s per capita overtakes ours (GDP never will) so we can atleast see that we aren’t always #1, which might fuel some competition and morality back into the US.
Look at the best growing economies, Japan and Germany. They protect their industries. Granted Japan is coming back from a recession, but I think their per capita will overtake ours relatively soon. Germany too, they are still shaking off the effects of reuniting with their communist half, but the irony is the conservative paries in both those countries advocate, guess what? Protectionism!
So how was it the conservative party in america picked up a liberal issue? The same way we picked up supporting big oil, the same way our leader George Bush, supports illegal immigration. Corporate bribery. Maybe a little pandering to a conservative MORALLY but fiscally communist group on george bush’s part.
I’ll admit the Border Fence Act is a step in the right direction, but it is corporations that are bribing our politicians because it is corporations who need to be arrested for hiring these people. If the government does not intervene most corporations won’t do what is right.
It’s we show this nation that we are a republic and have the house of representatives recall the president as is their right, and replace him with one who understands conservative values, and doesn’t pander to illegal immigrants and “moderate islamo-nazis”. We are a republic, not a democracy, the constitution is being perverted to a popular vote, but that is wrong. The president was supposed to be picked by the house of reps, with the EXCEPTION being if a candidate won 51% because originally the founding fathers thought there would always be six, seven, or eight candidates. They never forsaw the “two party system” abomination that would arise to circumvent the republic. George Washington spoke with outrage against it, as a machination of tyranny.
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