I have long found it difficult to believe that Lou Dobbs actually embraces what he utters. It is very difficult to find an economist who embraces his anti-trade, anti-immigrant positions, which have been demolished by mainstream thought from Adam Smith to Lord Keynes.
Really the most amazing thing to me is the impression I get of Dobbs' thinking. It flies in the face of the evidence.
Sonny Grosso (the French Connection cop) once told me that drug enforcement is like stepping on a tube. As soon as you step on it in one place, it pops up somewhere else. As long as Americans want drugs they will enter the country. American drug policy simply adds to the profit margin for outfits such as the Taliban and the FARC.
So far as immigration is concerned, well, if today's laws had been in place a century ago, I would not exist. Until incomes are put up in Latin America, people there will be drawn to the US. If we are to put up their incomes, we have to make it possible to buy their products. (By the way, admitting more working-age immigrants will go a long way to solving the Social Security problem -- working age people pay the tax that supports the seniors.) Yet we still levy a tax on ethanol from Brazil -- even when their product can help us reduce dependence on oil from OPEC.
Mr. Dobbs supports a fence along the Mexican border to keep out terrorists. No terrorist has ever been known to enter the US from Mexico. However, there have been indigenous terrorist plots in Canada, and there are recorded instances of terrorists attempting to enter the US from Canada. Mr. Dobbs, to my knowledge, has never asked that the Canadian border be fenced.
Could it be that Mr. Dobbs ignores the Canadian border because there is no anti-Canadian hysteria in the US?
The problem with Mr. Dobbs and many like him is a refusal to accept reality. That refusal leads to costly, doomed endeavors, not to mention human misery.
It is time to put emotion and pandering aside and address the facts. The Dobbs of the world are merely speedbumps on the road to progress.
I have long found it difficult to believe that Lou Dobbs actually embraces what he utters. It is very difficult to find an economist who embraces his anti-trade, anti-immigrant positions, which have been demolished by mainstream thought from Adam Smith to Lord Keynes.
Really the most amazing thing to me is the impression I get of Dobbs' thinking. It flies in the face of the evidence.
Sonny Grosso (the French Connection cop) once told me that drug enforcement is like stepping on a tube. As soon as you step on it in one place, it pops up somewhere else. As long as Americans want drugs they will enter the country. American drug policy simply adds to the profit margin for outfits such as the Taliban and the FARC.
So far as immigration is concerned, well, if today's laws had been in place a century ago, I would not exist. Until incomes are put up in Latin America, people there will be drawn to the US. If we are to put up their incomes, we have to make it possible to buy their products. (By the way, admitting more working-age immigrants will go a long way to solving the Social Security problem -- working age people pay the tax that supports the seniors.) Yet we still levy a tax on ethanol from Brazil -- even when their product can help us reduce dependence on oil from OPEC.
Mr. Dobbs supports a fence along the Mexican border to keep out terrorists. No terrorist has ever been known to enter the US from Mexico. However, there have been indigenous terrorist plots in Canada, and there are recorded instances of terrorists attempting to enter the US from Canada. Mr. Dobbs, to my knowledge, has never asked that the Canadian border be fenced.
Could it be that Mr. Dobbs ignores the Canadian border because there is no anti-Canadian hysteria in the US?
The problem with Mr. Dobbs and many like him is a refusal to accept reality. That refusal leads to costly, doomed endeavors, not to mention human misery.
It is time to put emotion and pandering aside and address the facts. The Dobbs of the world are merely speedbumps on the road to progress.