What more pleasant work would unemployed, felonized, non union, broke, part time, Americans be freed up to do in the fast food economy here, were more foreign workers than are already pouring over the border invited in?
He uses construction work as his example. It is one of those areas which cannot be off shored, for labor, although large US based construction firms have foreign operations, using foreign workers.
he discusses contractors raising wages. They usually rely on cheap labor. His example of a wage of $28 in Colorado bears no relation to reality in the real world he likes to refer to.
And why, after all, is construction so cyclical? Think about it.
What now remains of the source of Brooks' river?
His river is becoming a stream, a trickle really, not so much because of legal immigration at all, but the other thing of which he has been such a fan and still is, the ocean of globalization. That is where the stream flows.
Brooks wants to help everyone flow to the job they want to take. Roseate image.
Their dream job is now located on Gilligan's Island, Et In Arcadia Ego, in the globalized ocean we have created, not on the shore of the trickle of jobs here.
His model for America is a swampy, multicultural, cess pool like swampy coastland area, adjacent to the outfall of his trickle down stream, lacking land use regulations, regarding which even he complains about the aesthetic stench, Houston.
Land use regulations should be the least of Brooks' concerns, given his world view.
Most of his desirable illegal immigrants (the great bulk of immigrants) in fact come from areas without decent drinking water, much less good land use regulations. They are grateful even for a place to take a clean crap. If he thinks Houston leaves a little land use something to be desired, he needs to get a load of Bombay, Shanghai, Mexico City, Manaus, Casablanca, or Jakarta, to say nothing of cities in the Middle East.
His last paragraph is sort of a tour de force of sophism, where he rails against the so called Zero Sum, static minded, slow growth liberals of the 70s, such as Lester Thurow. Thurow wanted income redistribution, as the solution, much as Piketty recently has. Thurow ignored, much as Piketty has as well, the huge problem of the movement of production and prosperity elsewhere as a result of globalization.
In this sense, both parties have spent since the 1930s, together, selling out the average American, and the domestic economy, for their both left and right globalist agenda, favoring mainly the elites of both parties.
It is now global income convergence, rather than income disparity only within the West, that has become the 800 pound gorrilla in the room which no economist can safely touch because it is the gorilla which their policies have brought into being.
Brooks was to the right of the vital center, back then, Thurow to the left.
Now he's to the left of what it used to be, but exists no more. It has been disastrous for all Americans, for the past 70 years, either way.
Brooks thinks his views represent freedom, dynamism, and ingenuity.
Incredible, really.
It is hard to be either dynamic or ingenious, after you have been hollowed out by Japan and then squashed flat by China.
Brooks is rolling with the punches now from the right, formerly his own right, and attacking a low hanging centrist fruit, a couple of senators, he imagines as reincarnations of a so called liberal left, but also itself a globalist left, back then, not a nationalist left which unfortunately we never ever had.
In the globalist ocean of average wage convergence, there is almost no where left to swim to reach dry land, except an occasional island. Most of what will pass for land, in the globalist ocean, will be swampy coastal grassland areas, like Houston.
Terms search: Gilligan's Island, offshoring
Brooks wants to help everyone flow to the job they want to take. Roseate image.
Their dream job is now located on Gilligan's Island, Et In Arcadia Ego, in the globalized ocean we have created, not on the shore of the trickle of jobs here.
His model for America is a swampy, multicultural, cess pool like swampy coastland area, adjacent to the outfall of his trickle down stream, lacking land use regulations, regarding which even he complains about the aesthetic stench, Houston.
Land use regulations should be the least of Brooks' concerns, given his world view.
Most of his desirable illegal immigrants (the great bulk of immigrants) in fact come from areas without decent drinking water, much less good land use regulations. They are grateful even for a place to take a clean crap. If he thinks Houston leaves a little land use something to be desired, he needs to get a load of Bombay, Shanghai, Mexico City, Manaus, Casablanca, or Jakarta, to say nothing of cities in the Middle East.
His last paragraph is sort of a tour de force of sophism, where he rails against the so called Zero Sum, static minded, slow growth liberals of the 70s, such as Lester Thurow. Thurow wanted income redistribution, as the solution, much as Piketty recently has. Thurow ignored, much as Piketty has as well, the huge problem of the movement of production and prosperity elsewhere as a result of globalization.
In this sense, both parties have spent since the 1930s, together, selling out the average American, and the domestic economy, for their both left and right globalist agenda, favoring mainly the elites of both parties.
It is now global income convergence, rather than income disparity only within the West, that has become the 800 pound gorrilla in the room which no economist can safely touch because it is the gorilla which their policies have brought into being.
Brooks was to the right of the vital center, back then, Thurow to the left.
Now he's to the left of what it used to be, but exists no more. It has been disastrous for all Americans, for the past 70 years, either way.
Brooks thinks his views represent freedom, dynamism, and ingenuity.
Incredible, really.
It is hard to be either dynamic or ingenious, after you have been hollowed out by Japan and then squashed flat by China.
Brooks is rolling with the punches now from the right, formerly his own right, and attacking a low hanging centrist fruit, a couple of senators, he imagines as reincarnations of a so called liberal left, but also itself a globalist left, back then, not a nationalist left which unfortunately we never ever had.
In the globalist ocean of average wage convergence, there is almost no where left to swim to reach dry land, except an occasional island. Most of what will pass for land, in the globalist ocean, will be swampy coastal grassland areas, like Houston.
Terms search: Gilligan's Island, offshoring
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