This week something is likely to be done about immigration reform...perhaps not.
But the President last week in Mexico declaring once again that 'there are jobs that Americans are unwilling to do' just makes my head explode. It simply isn't true. Yes, at certain pay there are always going to be jobs that some people are unwilling to do. That's even true for illegals. Price a job low enough and even illegals would refuse to do it.
At the heart of this is money...and cheap labor for business.
If sending jobs overseas for businesses to benefit from cheap labor (exporting jobs) is wrong and harmful then why is it not wrong and harmful to bring the cheap labor here (importing cheap labor).
Actually the latter is more harmful that is the former. When we have the workers here, our society is responsible for benefits and healthcare in a way we are not when Dell has computer order-takers in India.
Whether you agree with the President or not, let's stop using the phrase (especially when it's on foreign soil) that these are jobs Americans are not willing to do. It's not true.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Why do we go to war?
we're in it...so we have to win in...i believe that.
but...
with all the defending of the war in iraq, it seems like a good time to ask this question: why should we ever go to war?
i believe it is not to be used to feed starving people...not for freeing slaves...not for assisting in civil wars within other countries. i believe we can work to solve those problems in other ways...but not with war.
i believe war should be reserved for imminent threat to the US and/or our allies...that's it.
but...
with all the defending of the war in iraq, it seems like a good time to ask this question: why should we ever go to war?
i believe it is not to be used to feed starving people...not for freeing slaves...not for assisting in civil wars within other countries. i believe we can work to solve those problems in other ways...but not with war.
i believe war should be reserved for imminent threat to the US and/or our allies...that's it.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
If you oppose me, you're a racist
That's the logic of the administration arguing for the port deal. That should be a red flag right there.
No reasonable conversation takes place once that charge is made.
Reasonable people of good will can disagree on this issue, but it is a disservice to the reasoned arguments of those opposing the port deal to suggest that if you don't agree with the administration, then you must be a racist.
Disagree on the port deal? You must hate arabs. Disagree on the president's amnesty program for illegals? You must be racist against Mexicans. Disagree on Harriet Miers? You must be against women.
It's an insult to those who believe differently from the administration and it speaks to the apparent weakness of their argument that these charges are leveled.
In truth there is a HUGE difference between a publicly traded company based in London (P&O) which held this contract and Dubai Ports World which is owned by the government in Dubai...a part of the UAE which the 9-11 report singled out as the country that housed the banks financing the 9-11 plot.
You don't hear that difference from the administration. You hear charges of racism and you hear name calling.
It's shameful and if these are the talking points for the president, he'd better get some new ones because this won't work.
No reasonable conversation takes place once that charge is made.
Reasonable people of good will can disagree on this issue, but it is a disservice to the reasoned arguments of those opposing the port deal to suggest that if you don't agree with the administration, then you must be a racist.
Disagree on the port deal? You must hate arabs. Disagree on the president's amnesty program for illegals? You must be racist against Mexicans. Disagree on Harriet Miers? You must be against women.
It's an insult to those who believe differently from the administration and it speaks to the apparent weakness of their argument that these charges are leveled.
In truth there is a HUGE difference between a publicly traded company based in London (P&O) which held this contract and Dubai Ports World which is owned by the government in Dubai...a part of the UAE which the 9-11 report singled out as the country that housed the banks financing the 9-11 plot.
You don't hear that difference from the administration. You hear charges of racism and you hear name calling.
It's shameful and if these are the talking points for the president, he'd better get some new ones because this won't work.
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