Continuing the discussion at Cato Unbound on Mexicans In America, Stephen J. Trejo responded to Victor Davis Hanson article on August 27th. Here is a teaser of what he wrote,
Border enforcement cannot be the primary answer. In recent years, we have dramatically increased expenditures on manpower and technology aimed at stopping illegal border crossing, with […]
Archive for September, 2006
Sep20th2006
How Do We Control Illegal Immigration? by Stephen J. Trejo
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 7 CommentsSep20th2006
“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale”. –Thomas Sowell
Sep19th2006
What Does Any of this Have to Do With Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 CommentsVictor Davis Hanson continues to contribute his part in the discussion over at Cato Unbound on the topic of Mexicans in America, here is a teaser of what he wrote:
I think anyone who has grown up in largely Mexican communities composed of illegal aliens realizes that when immigrants are assimilated, not found in non-integrated enclaves, […]
Sep19th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, Minimum Wage and Wal-Mart. 17 Comments“The nonsense we hear from liberals about “living wages” at Walmart is just another example of liberals trying to babysit everybody with their dumb economic ideas. Ideas which can be tested very easily, by the way. If Walmart isn’t paying enough, they should have a hard time filling openings, but if people are willing to […]
Sep18th2006
Getting Emotional About Mexicans By Douglas S. Massey
Published by in Communism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 2 CommentsDouglas S. Massey continues the discussion over at Cato Unbound on the topic of Mexicans in America, here is a teaser of what he wrote:
Emotional displacement, ethnic scare-mongering, and the scapegoating of immigrants are nothing new in American history. But they don’t solve our problems, and in the case of Mexican immigration […]
Sep18th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, ModernPolitics and Wal-Mart. 0 Comments“Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America’s political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans […]
Sep16th2006
“The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every vestige of patriarchy in America, but they have said almost nothing about the complete dismissal of women’s rights by radical Islam. To do so would be to attack Islamic culture, and according to multiculturalism, every culture is equal and none is evil. They forsake women in societies […]
Sep15th2006
George F. Will, writing in the Washington Post, gives the difference Wal-Mart makes:
The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel. A McKinsey company study […]
Sep15th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Foreign Policy and General. 4 Comments“Harvard has just welcomed the former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to give a little talk. Harvard thinks this is free speech, but in fact the university has allowed itself to be used as a platform for sweet-talk in the service of a regime that hates, and wants to bamboozle, America. Note, too, that Harvard professor […]
Sep14th2006
Inequality By Presidency
Published by in Economics, General, Inequality and ModernPolitics. 4 Comments The Wall Street Journal’s editorial compares inequality under Clinton and Bush and finds that Clinton had it worse:
First, the new data show that the bottom 50% of Americans in income–U.S. households with an income below the median of $44,389–paid a smaller share of total income taxes in 2004 (3.3%) than in Bill Clinton’s last […]
Sep14th2006
“Again, I do not see the need to conceptualize illegal immigration in terms of the Iraqi war, or the purported unfairness of the American system—not so apparent to much of the world, since the United States accepts more legal immigrants than almost all other nations combined. Most students of the issue accept that the present […]
Sep13th2006
Reactionary Democrats Attack Wal-Mart
Published by in Economics, General, ModernPolitics and Wal-Mart. 2 CommentsPankaj Ghemawat of Harvard Business School writes that the attack on Wal-Mart is nothing new:
History also provides perspective on the current clamor around Wal-Mart. When catalog pioneers Sears and Montgomery Ward seemingly threatened small-town retailers with extinction in the nineteenth century, those retailers mounted an energetic counterattack. The rise of chain stores in the 1920s […]
Sep13th2006
“His potential to cause trouble was on display last Friday, as members of his Revolutionary Democratic Party blocked Mexican President Vicente Fox from delivering his final state of the union address before the national congress. They mobbed the speaker’s platform and refused to move. Rather than engage in a shoving match, or worse, Mr. Fox […]
Sep12th2006
Economist Don Boudreaux reports on changes in American living standards over the 20th century tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
(1) It’s surprising that the percentage of the average household’s income spent on non-essential items was significantly higher in the mid-1930s than in the late 19-teens (about 28 percent compared to about 22 percent […]
Sep12th2006
“In this context, it is encouraging to note that intermarriage is widespread among Mexican Americans. More than a third of married, U.S.-born Mexicans have non-Mexican spouses, with the overwhelming majority of these non-Mexican spouses being U.S.-born, non-Hispanic whites. Because it takes two Mexican-origin spouses to create an endogamous Mexican marriage, whereas a Mexican intermarriage requires […]
Sep8th2006
Economics Debate: Why Are We Getting Fatter?
Published by in Capitalism, Debates, Economics, General and StdOfLiving. 1 CommentThe Wall Street Journal has posted another economics debate. This time it is between Darius Lakdawalla and Carol Graham, on the topic of American obesity (No subscription needed for 10 days).
The debate can be found here.
My favorite parts:
It’s no secret that Americans have been getting fatter over the last several decades. But in fact, weight […]
