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Does Bush believe in free market?

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Posted: May 13, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern


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Maybe I sound like a one-note Johnny beating to death this issue of illegal alien "cheap labor."

But, I believe, when President Bush tells us we need to keep our back door wide open because "there are some jobs Americans will not do," he is acknowledging a profound lack of faith in the free enterprise system and the law of supply and demand.

Putting aside for the moment all of the policies of the federal government designed to artificially inflate wages – such as minimum-wage laws, high taxes and wealth-transfer schemes – why are the wants and needs of agribusinesses for cheap labor any concern of the president of the United States?

I would like to be able to hire award-winning investigative journalists for minimum wage. I can't seem to do it. Should I petition Congress and the president to locate foreigners to come work for WND to meet my needs? Of course not.

It would be ludicrous to expect the government to concern itself with such a matter. It would indeed be un-American.

Legal costs are very expensive in this country. Would the president suggest the answer is importing foreign lawyers to bring the costs down?

Medical costs are high. Should we import foreign doctors to give the American MDs some competition?

No. I don't think any American would suggest such ideas – not even the president.

Yet, Bush has no problem victimizing Americans on the lowest rung of the economic ladder with additional foreign competition. Does this make sense to any one?

Jobs currently being done by millions of illegal aliens were once done almost exclusively by legal immigrants, adult Americans and teenagers getting their first work experience. What was wrong with that?

It seems to me the president not only shows a complete lack of interest in American homeland security by justifying illegal immigration and open borders with the phony need for cheap labor, he also demonstrates no understanding of basic economics.

If there are no workers to perform jobs at a minimal pay level, the wages will increase to attract those workers. This is called the law of supply and demand. It's not a theory. It's not a hypothesis. It's not guesswork. It's a natural law.

What would be wrong with paying higher wages for work considered unattractive to many Americans?

Isn't that the American way?

There are lots of dirty, hard jobs to be performed in America. Those jobs will all be filled when employers make them financially attractive enough to American workers by paying competitive wages.

In some cases, that might mean higher prices to American consumers. But so what? It seems to me that would be a small price to pay for maintaining the American culture, for lower crime rates and for increased national security.

Bush is the first president to acknowledge publicly his soft attitude toward illegal immigration is shaped, at least in part, by his belief – mistaken, I would suggest – that it's good for the American economy.


He's wrong about that, as I have argued before, because he is not factoring the negatives into the equation – billions leaving the U.S. economy for Mexico where that money represents the second biggest contribution to that nation's gross national product, the drain on U.S. taxpayer-supported entitlements, increased crime, higher law enforcement costs and the financial drains on the medical system and the schools.

And, of course, there is the issue that should always be foremost in the mind of a president of the United States – national security.

How are out-of-control illegal immigration and a wide-open border a bargain for America?

I just don't get it.