Contradictions on the Right and Left
Many people refuse to make connections. They think of a goal over here that they desire, and a goal over there that they desire, and they do not understand that the more they achieve of the first goal the less they can achieve of the second goal, and vise versa.
Beginning with the Reagan campaign of 1980 Republicans have advocated lower taxes, more military spending, and balanced budgets. The only way they could achieve this would be by cutting or eliminating domestic spending programs most Americans, including many Republicans, want to maintain at current levels of spending, or actually want to receive more spending.
Republicans should have learned this during the Reagan administration. Unfortunately, they have not. When pressed on the delusions underpinning Republican economic policy Republicans sometimes try to change the subject by saying, "If you want to pay higher taxes, go ahead. The government already takes too much of my money."
Elizabeth Warren articulated what is becoming the consensus among Democrat leaders when she said:
"immigration does not make us weaker, immigration makes us stronger. I want to see us expand legal immigration and create a pathway to citizenship for our DREAMers, but also for their grandparents, and for their cousins, for people who have overstayed student visas, and for peopel who came here to work in the fields. I want to have a system that is a path to citizenship that is fair and achievable."
A high amount of immigration interferes with nearly everything else liberals want to achieve in the United States.
Whatever happened to the liberal desire to achieve zero population growth? Native born Americans have come close to achieving zero population growth. By raising the U.S. population immigrants contribute to the further depletion of the U.S. environment.
Whatever happened to the liberal concern about the growing income gap? By competing for jobs immigrants enable employers to hold the line on pay increases. By competing for places to live immigrants enable landlords to raise rents. I read recently that the number of apartments renting for less than $800 a month has declined steadily for years. Try paying $800 a month with one of the low wage jobs that have come to replace well paying union jobs.
A diverse work force is more difficult to organize into labor unions than a homogeneous work force. As more non whites move to the United States, more whites vote Republican.
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