Immigration, Globalization, and Political Extinction

Politicians should be thinking about their futures, because that future might just depend on how they vote on immigration reform.

Politicians who want to put illegal aliens on a pathway to citizenship may soon find themselves on a pathway of their own – the high road to political extinction previously trod by Federalists, Whigs and others who lacked the courage to confront reality.  (FrontPageMag)

What about the US economy and the global economy?  Americans are concerned about both because it seems WE are footing the bills.  Our politicians don't seem to care about that either.

Keep On Rockin' In The Free Market

But we don’t live in a free market. We live in a state capitalist economy where the state has cartelized most industries: by anti-competitive regulations; by subsidies to operating costs that render corporations artificially profitable at sizes far above maximum economy of scale; and by subsidies to capital- and skill- and R&D-intensiveness that artificially increase the minimum feasible size and otherwise raise entry barriers.

We live in an economy, in short, where the average corporation has all the internal inefficiencies and irrationalities of a planned economy–but is able to survive because the taxpayers foot the bill for so many of the diseconomies of scale. Volunteer Voters

 

What's the problem with American workers?  Planck's Constant offers an explanation AND a cure (complete with photos):

I will never hire illegals, but most of my employees are immigrants because it is almost impossible to find Americans willing to work hard. Read carefully here. The operative word is hard.  Minimum wage is not an issue; no one at my company makes less than $20 an hour, some $80 an hour and more. The real problem is one of attitude. To get Americans to work with the same amount of glee and diligence I would have to pay them three times as much. And no, I'm not in the farm business. Despite popular notions, 98% of immigrants do NOT work on farms.   ...

As a public service to my fellow businessmen, I offer you my employee manual.  Feel free to modify it to suit your business.

Welcome to XXXXXXXXX

This will be brief. Please keep a copy of this in your wallet or purse or under your pillow should you need some late night reading. Please read it often enough so that you have it memorized.

Paydays: Don't obsess about them.

Workday Hours:  Don't look at the clock.

Overtime Compensation: If you need more time to finish your daily work, then by all means work longer. However, you will not be paid more to complete work you should have done in 8 hours. If we ask you to do someone else's job after your daily shift then we will gladly pay you 1.5 times your hourly wage even though you cannot give us the same effort after 8 hours of hard work as you gave in the first 8.  (Go read it all, you will laugh, you will say 'yes!', go read it here)

There is much to consider when talking about the effects of BAD immigration legislation.  Another blog has covered this subject perfectly:

The following is by Allie at Allieblog.  I give all credit to him.  Go visit him for other enlightening articles.  Read it and let me know what you think.

Oil, Globalization, Immigration, and Overpopulation

Globalization: the goal of the global plutocracy, so they can make money everywhere, exploit everyone, sell to everyone in the world. Globalization: One world ruled and exploited by a small class of people. They try to convince us it’s a good thing even for us and sometimes it is but globalization is predicated on an abundance of cheap oil and those days are ending. As it does and globalization become less possible, the plutocracy (a controlling class of the wealthy) pushes for it even harder. They are trying desperately to squeeze every last little bit of profit out of the world before the global collapse that will come with the end of the cheap energy that sustains the world’s huge populations.

Let’s talk a little more about globalization. Dell, for instance, makes computers in China and sells them in the US. The US computer industry is gone, killed off by foreign competition, killed off with government complicity. If the US is cut off from the rest of the world, if it is no longer economically feasible to ship computers from Asia to the US, then we will no have computers (or TVs) because America no longer has the factories to make its own.

The grocery store is filled with celery and onions from Mexico, grapes from Chili, and other produce from even farther away. Where once most food came from local farms, or at most, from California and Florida, now it doesn’t. The US is no longer a net exporter of food. We no longer produce enough food to feed our own. When there is no more cheap gas, how will we feed ourselves?

So globalization makes us dependent on foreign sources of food and manufactured goods. Soon we be unable to import these goods cheaply and our own industry is gone. When we need American industry to make things that we can no longer get globally, it won’t be there. The Bush Junta and the Clinton fools, pushed by the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations, have killed off our industry in their search for cheaper labor and higher profits abroad.

We will be sorry we can’t get our cheap computers and cell phones from China, but we will be very, very sorry that we can’t get the foreign food on which we have come to depend since the deliberate destruction of much of US food production.

Without oil, what? Back to the days of slow and stinking steamships, their smokestacks visibly belching pollution that makes the average car look like a clean alternative? Or maybe we’ll have nuclear powered ships. Instead of oil spills like the Exxon Valdez, we’ll get Chernobyl/Titanic disasters till the oceans are poisoned with radioactivity.

They will try everything, but in the end, without oil, globalization isn’t possible. You can’t depend on foreign imports without cheap transportation. As globalization fails each region will be forced to fall back on its local resources, its locally grown food, and its locally manufactured goods. Will American have anything to fall back on?

With the disappearance of cheap oil, it will become more and more difficult to support our population. Already we have to import food and half our oil. With the collapse of oil as a significant energy source, any country whose population exceeds its carrying capacity, i.e., its ability to feed its population, will have famines and massive population reductions.

With the luring of up to 66 million (the illegal immigrants and their families) additional people to the US we are assuring that we won’t be able to feed or provide for our population in the post-globalization world. It’s like adopting ten kids when you know that in six months you will only be able to feed two of them.

By allowing immigration, by encouraging it, legal or illegal, we are blighting our future and dooming our country and our children. We should be working to reduce US population. Instead the plutocracy works to increase it, first by trying to end abortion and birth control, then by massive immigration. Their ideal is China, China with its surfeit of cheap labor, China with its 1.4 billion, China with its history of famine and overpopulation and environmental degradation and its millennia of political repression. That is where they are trying to lead us. Because they think it is good for them.

We need leaders who will prepare us for the coming oil crunch and not just by trying to steal the oil of Iraq and Iran. We need leaders who will help the US to become self-sufficient, and not just for energy, but for food and manufactured goods.

I think we need Al Gore. He’s the only candidate I see that seems to recognize the finite nature of our planet and its resources.

But with or without him I think we are due for some hard times. I am reminded of Joseph in the Bible counciling the Pharaoh to prepare in the fat years for the coming lean ones. This seems common prudence. Instead we have a leadership whose motto seems to be “Eat, drink, and be merry because tomorrow we don’t care if you die.”

Also posting, Red Hot Cuppa Politics, "Globalization Spurs Illegal Immigration ..."

Morning Coffee, "A Middle Ground On Immigration"

Mike Pence a Republican Congressman from Indiana published an article in the Wall Street Journal which deserves a read. His proposals aimed at bridgeing the gap between the Senate and House bills on Immigration on the surface appear to be logical and based on common sense.

Common Sense America, "The Door Swings Both Ways"

Just as those who claim to see racism as the foundation of every disagreement in our nation are most often the worst offenders, the true hypocrites are usually the people that scream “hypocrisy” the loudest.

Magnum's Conservative Voice is cross posting today.

Take Back Georgia, " *Action Alert for Indiana* (and other Illegal Immigration goodies)"

Since i'm light-years behind on my e-mails, I'm going to multi-task and cross-post some articles from the CAII AND feature some *Action Alert* items that have come to me personally. -- Read and take action where you can. (GO read it)

Magnum's Conservative Voice also has, " The Philadelphia Story"

By now everyone has heard about Joey Vento the owner of Geno's Steaks of South Philadelphia. Mr. Vento placed a sign in his place of business that says "This is America-when ordering, speak English." As you can imagine in today's PC world in which we live this has caused a bit of an outrage from some groups.

Fix4RSO, "Rested and Back In the Saddle"

We just got back from a short trip to “The Happiest Place on Earth”! Now, whoever said that all day, every day, is “happy”? Have you stood in those lines on a hot summer day in Southern California? If you have, and you are a parent, then you know what it must be like to be an illegal alien waiting for a kai-yoh-tee (coyote) to take you across the border, or you make a run for it all on your own!

Valgerd's Hearth, " Basic Pilot Program"

Applaud Dunkin' Donuts for Joining the Basic Pilot Program This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey. You can find this fax by proceeding to http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=5710

bRight&Early, "Stand up for what's right"

**This was a production of The
Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.

Comments

[Mr. E]

If you want to decrease immigration then you have to work to make corporations keep their greedy hands off of the resources of other countries, especially Latin American countries. If you want to decrease immigration then youll be in solidarity with the rebelious people in latin america and elsewhere who struggle daily to remove the corrupt politicians from power, politicians who are supported by the US government because they in turn welcome the corporations with open arms. Oh but God forbid a politician in latin america questions the advance of the corporation, he will be labled a communist, a chavez/castro ally and an enemy of america when in fact that person might be dooing more to help his peole live dignified lives in their country rather than coming here and competeing for the scarce resources that we all have to fight for in this country.

One of the most telling examples of what i am referring to is the coup against president arbenz in guatemala in the 1950s. He was a democratically elected peresident, one of the first in guatemala's history, you would think the us government would be happy, we want to spread democracy right? well they were not happy. you see in guatemala the United fruit company owned much land. some of the land went unused. so arbenz had the idea of redistributing the UNUSED land to the landless peasants so they would help themsleves. He paid for the land however, he paid the price that United Fruit said it was worth. Unfortunatly for the guatemalan people, some politicians in washington had financial interests in united fruit, most notably secretary of state dulles. well he labled arbenz a communist and a coup su[pported by the cia took him out prompltly. What followed was a civil war spanning decades with hundreds of thousands dead.
so like i said earlier. if you dont want these brown people coming into the us, legal or not , then examin the foreign policy of this country and try to figure out what it is that we do that encourages the very same "problems" you are writing about. If you do you might find out that you have more in common with a poor citizen of venezuela who is a chavez supporter than what you might think. well it doesnt hurt to try.

[FrauBudgie]

GMTA - thanks.