Posted on 06/12/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I needed an aspirin along with some Tums for the sickening feeling in the bottom of my stomach!
Capitalism.
ping
We have a little something called the Constitution that probably would get in the way of your explanation. This isn't commerce as much as a destruction of our sovereignty.
Bush, Fox and Harper, right? I remember the low-key news stories about the meeting at Cancun.
Globalism? First, the EU and soon, the North American Union.
The frog-in-a-slowly-boiling-pot scenario.
this is absolutely insane
ping for processing through my mind
I am praying that this is a hoax
Like it or not, the free market is larger than it used to be, and capitalism reigns.
Doesn't anyone realize that if more situations like the longshoreman's unions in the USA bypassed in favor of dock workers in Mexico, the following will happen:
(1) More jobs in an improved Mexican economy, causing more Mexicans to stay in Mexico, rather than impatiently risking illegal entry into the USA to seek work? With Mexico's economy improved, people will have less of a desire to leave.
(2) Unions (whose wages basically constitute "price controls" which do not compete in a free market) will be broken, and their powerful lefty bosses will be a lot less powerful...meanwhile, former union workers will find new jobs (with wages more in line with what the free market will sustain) in an American economy which will continue to be robust. Perhaps they will find jobs with companies who will be performing well due to lower operating costs by shipping goods via Mexico. Perhaps, dock workers in the USA will continue to work, just at the wages that the free market determines they should have.
So where exactly is the problem?
Make it more difficult for illegals to enter, and they will stop, you say. I say that it will make them more resourceful than ever in their methods to break in. A wall on the border, on its own, will not work. You must also improve the conditions in Mexico so that there is less of a desire for potential illegals to leave and come here. It is a two way street, believe it or not. Supply and demand. Many of you are forgetting about how strong the demand is. Only lessening the supply will not get the job done.
remember that Reagan signed this too
does anyone remember that
FYI
About a thousand FReepers need to send this to O'Reilly and get this all over the tube.
You know what, you're right. We shouldn't let anyone in or out.
What kind of leader of the free world are we if we don't promote capitalism and free markets to other nations of the world?
Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process.
THE SKY IS FALLING. THE SKY IS FALLING! Oh, how do imports from the far east get to Larado?
I love the "Quietly Plans" part. How sinister.
How can this be bad?
There's always another union to take advantage of the situation- in this case the Teamsters.
20 years ago, and the number was 1 million which actually turned into 3 million. For 20 years we have had laws on the books for what has been taking place, but the Federal Government has turned a blind eye on 10 to 12 million illegals who under the 1986 law shouldn't be here. I'm glad you brought up the 1986 though so that we can be clear. Amnesty doesn't stop the flow, and laws don't matter when you don't enforce them.
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