My, my, the economic theory hits just keep rolling from John McCain. First he said that Americans couldn’t pick lettuce for $50/hr. Of course he thinks more bad trade deals are great for the nation. That’s right, damn the evidence and the statistics as our US dollar tanks and the nation is hollowed out of manufacturing and service jobs. Now he believes by denying US citizens jobs and opportunity, displacing them with foreign guest workers, one creates jobs! Must one wonder if McCain is living in some sort of economic fantasy world! Or could it be he will only listen to corporate lobbyists and present their public relations teams talking points?
Ars Technica reports Chuck Fish, former conglomerate Time-Warner executive and lawyer, representing McCain, claims:
For each H1-B visa hire, 20 domestic jobs are created
Ars Technica notes there is only one study that claims firing Americans and denying opportunity to Americans creates jobs. When Ars Technica requested the source of John McCain’s claim that guest worker Visas is a massive job creation engine, there was no reply from the McCain campaign.
Even worse, Ars Technica is quoting a corporate lobbyist paper that has been heavily debunked. Of course it is debunked, does anyone in their right…
Immigration is the 3rd rail of politics, especially for Democrats. One is guaranteed to be name called and attacked if any attempts to have a controlled immigration policy are made. In the Oregon Senate Democratic Primary, not surprisingly, finding out where the candidates stand is a hard, long dig. Like stepping through a mine field, one false move is guaranteed to be targeted by some special interest group. Let’s go past the name calling hype and try to find out where they really stand and why these positions are vital to US workers.
Steve Novick on Immigration:
First, Novick talks about the small business owner getting wiped out by the competition through use of cheap illegal labor. Yet in the very next sentence, he endorses the failed Comprehensive Immigration Bills!
The comprehensive immigration bills were opposed by the AFL-CIO because they were loaded with guest worker Visas and were anti-labor.
Jeff Merkley on Immigration:
Now Merkley is mentioning something very real, labor supply and demand. It is well known among labor economists (and corporations) to lower wages, one dramatically increases the domestic labor supply. These are fundamental economic laws and apply to to any worker in any labor market,…
Hope, change, or is it false hope? This is must see TV, straight from CTV, a major Canadian network, who checks their sources and it’s damning. They catch Obama in a bold faced lie on NAFTA.
Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama’s campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources.
The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value
There are two must see video reports. The first is the original story, the second is the Clinton campaign not only denying they did anything similar but encouraging CTV to investigate and out anyone even remotely affiliated with them who could be found to make such promises to not renegotiate NAFTA.
So far, it sure appears that CTV is dead on, which leads to another question, why is it that Canadian broadcast television can break this so important story while US TV goes on and on about identity politics. Maybe when they renegotiate NAFTA we can import some real journalism to boot.
My, my, the economic theory hits just keep rolling from John McCain. First he said that Americans couldn’t pick lettuce for $50/hr. Of course he thinks more bad trade deals are great for the nation. That’s right, damn the evidence and the statistics as our US dollar tanks and the nation is hollowed out of manufacturing and service jobs. Now he believes by denying US citizens jobs and opportunity, displacing them with foreign guest workers, one creates jobs! Must one wonder if McCain is living in some sort of economic fantasy world! Or could it be he will only listen to corporate lobbyists and present their public relations teams talking points?
In the Oregon Senate Democratic Primary, not surprisingly, finding out where the candidates stand is a hard, long dig. Like stepping through a mine field, one false move is guaranteed to be 