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Originally Posted by AzteK
Who says immigration is to put a dent world poverty? That's just an assumption he makes at the beginning at his demo.
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Yup. Without immigration the USA wouldn't be the wealthy place it is and would have have lost WW2. All of those italian, african, irish, mexican immigrants have made the US prosper.
This kind of simplistic gumball argument is designed to simply validate the existing views of xenophobes who want to cut immigration. It completely ignores the fact that immigrants from poor backgrounds usually send money back to their home countries. So that 1 guy from somalia working in the US is supporting his family of 10 back in somalia with US currency.
Simple arguments only work with simpletons. The 99% white audience would have eaten that simple minded
shit up.
As for free markets being the answer, IF it is a fair trade free market then yes. But in 2010 we have situations like our old computer parts going to china/india for 7 year old kids to disassemble and get mercury or lead poisoning and brain damage. I saw a doco last week in china with a woman burning computer parts plastic with a lighter and smelling it to determine what kind of plastic it is for recycling. No labor laws or education to protect her, imagine burning and smelling 5000 pieces of plastic a day, again brain damage. Or sweatshops in haiti where kids work on clothes instead of getting an education.
Some cities in China have rivers that are so polluted they can no longer be used to irrigate crops, they have cities that are grey because of the pollution of 50 coal fired power plants.
Free markets won't fix those problems, they exacerbate them Abusing labor in third world countries, and destroying the environments of third world countries so the people in western countries can get a new flat screen TV every 3 years for a cheap price. Corporations don't give a shit, they just want big returns for shareholders. Free markets combined with labor laws and environmental regulations can work, but it takes intelligent and informed decisions by consumers, which corporate America doesn't want..
Also don't forget that 10% unemployment in the USA is a bi-product of globalisation of trade. Wealth is flowing out of the US middle and lower class. The US high end benefit from globalisation of trade, for the middle and lower, it means less jobs, and the destruction of many sectors of manufacturing.