I recently had a response to a report I posted on Lou Dobbs' ignorant stance on immigration. This excerpt is a classic example of misinformation and rhetoric that the ignorant minded feed off "The testimonial of Robert Rector an outspoken analyst with the Heritage Foundation, that legalizing the lawbreakers will cost $2.5 Trillion dollars in escalating taxes, just to pay for retirement and pensions? Because of the decades of indifference of Washington, we are now stuck with a massive occupation of foreign nationals and their families."
my reply...
A wonderful example of how misinformation can disseminate into the most senile of minds. The use of illegal and legal is the key term here. By villanizeing the small portion of the physical working populous in the United States, that is here under labor conditions, Nativists are able to portray a United States that is teetering on the edge of overpopulation. This empirically fallacious statement falls miles short of the truth. The migrant worker moves to and from Mexico to the U.S. for work that demands their travel. We outsource jobs everyday because we know that the most basic of labor positions can be filled by the migrant be he or she legal or illegal. The ability for the Rhetorician to apply the term legal/illegal is a simple ploy to divert attention from an economy that relies whole hearted on the "physical" man-power of the migrant worker. The truth is that by painting the helpless migrant worker the villain, they are able to draw the attention away from the real evils, business and finance industries that care very little for the quality of life that their actions afford. To borrow a term from Lewis Mumford, we live in "a Pecuniary Economy", the desire for profit is the end and be all of our actions.
I will close with some words of wisdom from the Great Lewis Mumford, perhaps his wisdom may cast a clear picture on the realities of lies and how we villanize unnecessarily ".. for what is true of human beings in the mass is equally true of self-elected rulers and leaders: in any case, the problem is to increase the area of rational judgements and rational political activity, and to divert or sublimate those forces which are inimical to co-operation. To the extent that political power becomes rationally conditioned and successfully diffused by education, the individual citizen will be reluctant to sacrifice his own initiatives and his own judgements to the terroristic monopoly of dictatorship. The impotence of many is the power of the few-- and vice-versa.
my reply...
A wonderful example of how misinformation can disseminate into the most senile of minds. The use of illegal and legal is the key term here. By villanizeing the small portion of the physical working populous in the United States, that is here under labor conditions, Nativists are able to portray a United States that is teetering on the edge of overpopulation. This empirically fallacious statement falls miles short of the truth. The migrant worker moves to and from Mexico to the U.S. for work that demands their travel. We outsource jobs everyday because we know that the most basic of labor positions can be filled by the migrant be he or she legal or illegal. The ability for the Rhetorician to apply the term legal/illegal is a simple ploy to divert attention from an economy that relies whole hearted on the "physical" man-power of the migrant worker. The truth is that by painting the helpless migrant worker the villain, they are able to draw the attention away from the real evils, business and finance industries that care very little for the quality of life that their actions afford. To borrow a term from Lewis Mumford, we live in "a Pecuniary Economy", the desire for profit is the end and be all of our actions.
I will close with some words of wisdom from the Great Lewis Mumford, perhaps his wisdom may cast a clear picture on the realities of lies and how we villanize unnecessarily ".. for what is true of human beings in the mass is equally true of self-elected rulers and leaders: in any case, the problem is to increase the area of rational judgements and rational political activity, and to divert or sublimate those forces which are inimical to co-operation. To the extent that political power becomes rationally conditioned and successfully diffused by education, the individual citizen will be reluctant to sacrifice his own initiatives and his own judgements to the terroristic monopoly of dictatorship. The impotence of many is the power of the few-- and vice-versa.
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