The Best And Cheapest Solution To American Unemployment – Stop Illegal Immigration

Stephen Steinlight writes:

What wasn’t broached at the Summit because it’s not just ideologically outré but so heretical as to be unspeakable was a response that could have made a huge, immediate contribution to addressing the problem of joblessness – sans the windy intellection and vast expenditure. The solution is dirt cheap by any standard, and chump change in comparison to each and every Summit idea.

Had the participants employed Occam’s razor and looked for the simplest, most obvious causative factor, the lowest-hanging fruit, they could have acknowledged, faced, and taken on the Hydra-headed, job-stealing, budget-exploding, safety-net-slashing monster: massive immigration by the unskilled, illegal and legal.

In Krugman’s op ed of December 10, he argues we must add no fewer than 100,000 jobs a month to defeat the recession and keep up with our growing population. But his internalized ideological control officer won’t permit him so much as to mention that the Feds are importing 125,000 low-skill foreign workers a month, making nonsense of his proposal. With eyes wide shut, he chooses to worship his fetish while his country founders.

The Summit came and went. Not a single invitee uttered a word about the impact on American jobs and wages of massive immigration by the poor and less-educated. Neither Krugman, nor any other of the Illuminati, could summon the courage to say the self-evident. Why not? Because it would have necessitated toppling an ideological idol and their failure shows why, in the final analysis, they’re all second-raters. The Summit crowd may be smart, but it is surely not wise. Had they removed their ideological blinders, solutions would have come fast and furious. An example of just one set of practical policy recommendations that would make a concrete difference immediately is contained in Roy Beck’s testimony last month before the House at a forum entitled “American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration.”