I don't understand most anything the government does, except when viewed through the light of political corporate corruption on one side and legions of weak minded voters on the other. Even this weekend I hear insane things, and these come directly from the president. It seems Bush proposes rewarding people that disregard our sovereign borders and immigration laws by proclaiming they fill jobs that "Americans don't want to do".
My question is this: since we are a free-market economy, why care about what jobs Americans are or are not doing? Isn't it up to the invisible hand of free-market economics to decide the results of labor market choices and adjust to them?
I hear arguments that without these illiterate squatters that come to America for a buck (rather than freedom) the fruit would rot on the vine, and motel beds would not be made, etc. But isn't it central to our free-market economy that we let economic rather than political forces contend with these possible events?
Thus, isn't it protectionism, protectionism that Bush himself says America does not need, to provide amnesty to the millions who have overrun our borders based on economics? Isn't it a play for the gullible, to say that without these people our economy would falter when really it would only adjust itself?
Doesn't the free-market economy insist that if business owners cannot attract employees within their profit margin without breaking the law then they need to find another business to be in?
Thanks for any insight.
My question is this: since we are a free-market economy, why care about what jobs Americans are or are not doing? Isn't it up to the invisible hand of free-market economics to decide the results of labor market choices and adjust to them?
I hear arguments that without these illiterate squatters that come to America for a buck (rather than freedom) the fruit would rot on the vine, and motel beds would not be made, etc. But isn't it central to our free-market economy that we let economic rather than political forces contend with these possible events?
Thus, isn't it protectionism, protectionism that Bush himself says America does not need, to provide amnesty to the millions who have overrun our borders based on economics? Isn't it a play for the gullible, to say that without these people our economy would falter when really it would only adjust itself?
Doesn't the free-market economy insist that if business owners cannot attract employees within their profit margin without breaking the law then they need to find another business to be in?
Thanks for any insight.
