Old Weird Ward
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
- - - - - Immigration Taboos - - - - - One of the most emotionally loaded subjects in America is illegal immigration, especially from Mexico. Just mention of the subject in any grouping of four or more will usually generate a heated comment or two about how we "need" illegal aliens to do America's dirty work - the work that "real" Americans won't do. Thomas Sowell's column in my local daily rag grabbed my attention. HERE is the link to the entire column at TownHall.com. (My local newspaper kills off their stuff after a couple of weeks. TownHall keeps theirs active, apparantly forever.) What we "need" depends on what it costs and what we are willing to pay. If I were a billionaire, I might "need" my own private jet. But I can remember a time when my family didn't even "need" electricity.
Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. At current wages for low-level jobs and current levels of welfare, there are indeed many jobs that Americans will not take.
The fact that immigrants -- and especially illegal immigrants -- will take those jobs is the very reason the wage levels will not rise enough to attract Americans.
This is not rocket science. It is elementary supply and demand. Yet we continue to hear about the "need" for immigrants to do jobs that Americans will not do -- even though these are all jobs that Americans have done for generations before mass illegal immigration became a way of life.
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The economic basis for illegal immigration has been glossed over by the MSM (MainStreamMedia) for years. What the MSM says is "they come here for a better life". What the MSM doesn't tell you is that illegal aliens will work for less money, and put up with more abuse, than "real" Americans.
Mr. Sowell makes this point in a reasoned, logical fashion. That alone will get him a ton of hate mail, no doubt.
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