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Say "No" to conference and the Obama-Bush immigration ponzi scheme


Who could have predicted during the run-up to the 2008 election that then-candidate Obama would be appluading President Bush's economic theories during his second term?
This week, the White House and the George W. Bush Presidential Center released videos selling immigration amnesty and expansion as economic stimulus. Now, it is no secret that more immigration means a bigger economy. But the Bush/Obama policy tends to privatize profits and socialize the costs. Neil Munro has the story:
"The CBO report said the bill would lower average wages and education for a decade, but allow long-term increases in productivity. The bill would also shift more of nation's annual income from wage-earners to investors for at least 20 years, according to the CBO report."

The last decade saw record levels of immigration and all of the net employment gains went to immigrant workers, according to analysis by the Center of Immigration Studies.
Wages have been in decline as well. Fred Bauer writes that between 2009 and 2012:
"Jobs in the first quintile (making between $8.78 and $10.60 an hour) saw their wages decline 3 percent. Jobs in the second quintile ($10.61 to $14.21 an hour) saw the biggest collapse, losing 4.1 percent. Jobs in the third quintile of wages ($14.23 to $18.83 an hour) saw a 3.1 percent decline. Jobs in the upper 40 percent of hourly wages saw a smaller decline (a little under 2 percent). Many of the low-wage jobs with the greatest number of workers saw large decreases."

Progressive Leah Durant and conservative Laura Ingraham take the Bush/Obama immigration theory to task on Ingraham's show.
Bauer has a message for conservatives in particular (if you have a GOP Rep., make sure he or she hears this message):
"A small-government vision is strengthened by a dynamic economy where a rising economic tide lifts all boats, so continued -- and perhaps increasing -- downward pressure on wages poses significant troubles for the realization of this vision. Conservatives serious about reviving this small-government vision should also be serious about reviving broad-reaching economic opportunity. And a policy measure that hinders this revival of opportunity could also hamper the project of Republican renewal."

On the political front, Mickey Kaus warns not to be taken in by false debates. The amnesty-and-immigration-increase advocates would love nothing more than for the House to pass anything -- as long as it goes to conference with the Senate bill. It doesn't matter whether the Senate bill is constitutional or not. If S. 744 gets to conference with any kind of House immigration bill, American wage-earners could be stuck with the Bush-Obama immigration ponzi scheme for decades.
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