Calling All Asswipes Wrote:
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> this is fun Wrote:
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> > Calling all asswipes - ad hominem attacks are
> not
> > persuasive.
>
> They are when they reveal against all rebuttal the
> inherent weakness behind an original claim.
>
> > ...the reality is that you are nowhere, and I
> mean nowhere, as educated as > I happen to be -
> having completed difficult courses of study at two
> of the > best schools in the nation,
>
> Well pat yourself on the back then! Are you
> familiar with the White House Fellows program?
> THat's how I got here.
>
> > You would not last ten minutes with the academic
> crowd
> > I ran with.
>
> Probably right...I am kind of easily bored.
>
> > The problem the Vanessa Pham cases presents is
> that
> > the crime was preventable, and given his
> criminal
> > history and capacity to use scant social
> welfare
> > resources, any country with rational
> immigration
> > policy should had Blanco-Garcia deported as a
> > matter of course.
>
> All crimes are preventable on the level of your
> claim. That level is of course totally
> unrealistic, and it has nothing to do with the
> legality or lack thereof concerning the
> perpetrator's entry into the country. THere are
> after all an estimated 11 million undocumented
> immigrants in the country. In what population of
> 11 million human beings do you NOT expect
> eventually to encounter a violent murderer?
>
> > The challenge I have with thinkers in your vein
> is
> > that it always about the narrative, and never
> > about the facts. Virtually nothing, including
> a
> > pretty ugly murder committed by an undocumented
> > person who frankly should not have been here,
> > interrupts the meme. There are sympathetic
> > immigration cases; this clearly is not one of
> > them.
>
> What have you been reading? I haven't defended
> the guy in any way at all. I have attacked
> various false statements and a whole bunch of just
> plain outright racism. Defend those, if you can.
>
>
> > The unfortunate fall-out of this kind of
> thinking
> > is that connections which are susceptible to
> being
> > made are rarely made, particulary when
> > progressive, morally superior soundbites govern
> > and control over facts and eminently plausible
> > cause and effect relationships. Take economics
> > and immigration. Senator Warren, a darling of
> the
> > left, quite accurately and adroitly points out
> > that given the rise in GDP the last 40 years,
> the
> > minimum wage for people with entry market
> skills
> > should be $14. Of course, she fails to mention
> > that the reason for this is not some Koch
> Brothers
> > conspiracy, but the forceful impact of global
> > competition, particularly China.
>
> So you think busboys in China are driving down the
> wages of busboys in the US? Are you daft? Most
> low- and minimum-wage jobs have no competititon at
> all from workers in other countries. THe workers
> who pick lettuce in California and apples in
> Washington state will always be right here in the
> good old USA as they do that work. These jobs
> cannot be done from China. The same is true for
> landscaping, construction, or home health care
> positions. I suspect you have been sent off the
> tracks here by unfiltered nonsense concerning all
> "our" manufacturing jobs having been shipped off
> to China. That has not happened. Every one of
> the top twelve manufacturing economies in the
> world has lost manufacturing jobs since the
> mid-1990's even as output has soared. China in
> fact has lost more jobs in that time than the US
> presently has. US losses have been about average
> for the group. The simple fact is that like
> agriculture a century or so before it,
> manufacturing has lost any capacity it once may
> have had to provide jobs for the masses. Adapt or
> die.
>
> > These nations have created productivity gains of
> immense
> > magnitude, and as a result, entry level wages
> have
> > collapsed.
>
> Please. Wages here have collapsed because of
> advancing corporatism. Productivity gains have
> been deliberately diverted into corporate profits
> and away from wage increases. The labor share of
> GDP has been persistently declining. The
> destruction of unions has of course been a
> signficant factor in all that. Labor markets in
> which an individual sits on one side and a massive
> corporate enterprise sits on the other do not
> often result in fair and equitable equilibria.
> "THose nations" of yours have not entered into it.
>
>
> > Cast aside for the purposes of discussion
> whether we
> > should have imposed protectionist measures
> (although
> > they rarely work for non-transitory periods).
>
> Huh? We have had and still do have broad-based
> tariff schedules in effect. We also operate major
> subsidy programs.
>
> > The last thing, and the very last thing we would
>
> > want to do in the face of a collapsing entry
> level
> > labor market is to adopt the immigration
> practices
> > that we have adopted.
>
> Hello? The reason people come here illegally is
> that there are still millions of jobs that legal
> people simply don't apply for. These jobs still
> need to be done. You advertise them and the
> people who show up are the pool from which you can
> hire. You can't wave some magic wand and cause
> other people to appear. The immigration policies
> that we should have would ease the path of
> qualified immigrant workers in getting to where
> their work is needed and assuring that they are
> safe and fairly and adequately compensated.
>
> > Permitting millions of low wage and unskilled
> people
> > puts tremendous pressure on the lower end of the
> labor
> > market - people - at least according to my
> progressive
> > friends - who need it most.
>
> We don't permit this at all. Don't the asswipes
> continue to point out that all these people are
> here ILLEGALLY? Do you understand how silly you
> sound in that light?
>
> > Throw in the fact that illegal aliens, like
> > every other group of people, commit crimes -
> > sometimes violent - and there is a whole slew
> of
> > bad policies to legitimately complain about.
>
> You think there is some POLICY somewhere
> encouraging immigrants to massacre native-born
> types? Grow up!
>
> > In fact, there should be discussion over these
> > difficult issues, and certainly without
> > reactionary and emotionally gooey invocations
> of
> > racism.
>
> Tell it to Malkin. Tell it to the racists.
>
> > I understand you may think I may be, what is
> your
> > term, an "asswipe" for disagreeing with you,
>
> Disagreement with me has nothing to do with it,
> but the nature of the claims mase in this post
> does raise certain suspicions. Lousy facts and
> faulty reasoning can often do that.
>
> > But I find that hard to digest from someone who
> has,
> > at least in my perspective (as is evident from
> your
> > posts), a limited education, and one that
> appears to
> > reflect an experience of indoctrination rather
> than
> > that of critical thinking.
>
> Dude, you have no idea.
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