Posted on 07/29/2015 7:57:12 AM PDT by Mariner
If I could add one amendment to the Constitution, it would be the one Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley once proposed: "There shall be open borders." There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people. An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.
So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. "Open borders?" he interjected. "No, that's a Koch brothers proposal." The idea, he argued, is a right-wing scheme meant to flood the US with cheap labor and depress wages for native-born workers. "I think from a moral responsibility, we've got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty," he conceded, "but you don't do that by making people in this country even poorer."
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
You can't solve the Third World's problems by moving them into our living rooms and giving them welfare.
That article is predicated upon, what is probably one of the dumbest, most short sighted opinions I have ever read!
international poverty?????
how about.......Intellectual poverty....bernie?
An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.
If too many people do this, too many come from 3rd world countries to America, then the Nigerian will not be able to increase his income by 15 fold any longer. If we suddenly had hundreds of millions of these people here, they would drag down prevailing wages in American so much, that he might rather stay in Lagos and look for a job there.
From Article: “I’m sure Sanders believes that Nigerian lives and Bangladeshi lives and Haitian lives matter. But if he does, then his views on immigration must change”.
And there are many who agree with that, but few who will actually come out and say it. But they work for open borders with a different vocabulary and various political ruses and deceits.
And the article is correct. Open borders would average down the living standards in affluent nations and bring about some improvements in poor nations. That's already happening to some extent, but sure haven't heard any politicians stating those aims clearly.
Wealthy nations can help, but it's up to poor nations to reform themselves and improve their economic plight. There are too many poor nations and poor people to be made affluent by redistributing the wealth of affluent nations.
Uh, so never mind about the job that Nigerian takes from a legal citizen, never mind about the lack of vetting which allows rapists, violent criminals, pedophiles, chronic and fatal disease carriers, etc, to just come in, never mind the increasing welfare state, supported on the backs of the shrinking legal American middle class, etc. Who appointed every nationality, race, etc, entitled to their “dreams” at the expense of us legal taxpayers who were never asked if we wanted to be pillaged, and have our kid sit next to some kid in the government indoctrination centers, who may be carrying TB? And our kid has to show vaccination records, but the illegal’s kid doesn’t?
And impoverishing us to do it-wait, that is the plan, that’s the goal of the redistributionists, to make us all equally poor-after they skim their cut, of course.
It appears that that’s already happening, considering what’s happening to the producers and the middle class in the US.
With just the one issue of illegal immigration, I can see why this next election could boil down to Sanders and Trump. They are both saying something the majority of American citizens want to hear.
The good news is criminal Hillary and that damn despicable Mexican wannabe two bit worthless hack of a Jeb Bush will be left in their dust.
Answer: Big money crony capitalists are paying people in both parties to carry their water.
Immigration and "Free Trade" are two sides of the same coin.
Wow, what would you do without brilliant Vox writers like Dylan Matthews? Sure, Dylan, let’s flood the country with even more Nigerians and Mexicanos. Throw in millions of Zimbabweans and Central Americans also. Let’s see if we can’t force wages down to 10 cents an hour. Perhaps five cents an hour for Vox writers. (Except in San Fransicko, where $15/hour will be mandated but there will be NO jobs.)
They might even give us Section 8 vouchers for being gracious hosts.
There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people. An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.
Do they not teach basic Econ 101 anymore? My 10 year old can figure this one out in a minute.
PLEASE KNOW I AM NOT SHOUTING. simply CAN READ BETTER IN LARGER PRINT.
NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD CAN LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A QUOTA OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO BE ALLOWED LEGAL ENTRY EVERY YEAR.
CHANGES CAUSES UPHEAVEL. LET PEOPLE COME PROPERLY AND BE PROUD OF BEING IN AMERICA. WHEN THEY COME LET THEM APPRECIATE OUR GOVERNMENT AND FOLLOW THE PROCESS. CHANGES CAN CAUSE MUCH DISTRESS. TIME IS REQUIRED. Teach THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWING THE LAWS AND STATUTES OF America. IT TAKES TIME AND PATIENCE.
If THEY WANT WHAT THEY HAD IN THEIR COUNTRY LET THEM RETURN TO IT. NOT CHANGE AMERICA. WHAT America HAS ... HAS WORKED. LET US NOT LOSE IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Why doesn’t Dylan Matthews give his job to one of these open border beneficiaries and he can live in a cardboard box with his spouse and children?
Why if there were complete open borders and a maximum wage law of $1.50 an hr, everyone could have 2 or 3 jobs and hamburgers would only cost 5 cents. And we could all live in cardboard boxes.
Now you are getting smart. At that point, we achieve One World Nirvana with our betters in complete charge. < / sarcasm >
Bernie angling for a Donald/Bernie third-party run?
The "Racism" charge that will be leveled against Sanders will have far greater impact on him in a Democrat primary than on Trump in a Republican primary.
Except, just maybe, since Sanders is a know "good guy" to the communist left...Trump will find himself inoculated?
Perhaps it's the "Washington Cartel" that will find themselves isolated?
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