The High Price of Free Trade
Trade representatives from 34 Western Hemisphere countries (all except Cuba) are now gathering in Miami to take the next step to expand NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) into the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Continue reading →The Great Awakening About China
American businessmen and farmers are finally waking up to how they were sold a bill of goods by those who promised that China would be a profitable billion-mouth market if we just gave that developing country Most Favored Nation trade privileges and assisted its admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Like Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” the Bush Administration is “shocked, shocked” to discover that Communists don’t play by the rules or keep their promises.
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Whose Side are the Politicians On?
In a flip-flop to court the Hispanic vote, California Governor Gray Davis signed a bill (which he had rejected twice before) to allow illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses.
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Iraq Should Pay Its Own Way
At the Senate hearing to consider the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $87 billion to pay for what is going on in Iraq, the sensational news emerged that $20.3 billion of that amount is allocated, not to pay for the war or for the benefit of U.S. troops, but to build Iraq into a modern country with water and sewer systems, power grids, roads, bridges, schools, post offices, prisons, and even 3,000 housing units.
Continue reading →California Candidates Should Face the Big Issue
Over the last decade, one million people have illegally entered California from Mexico, while two million Americans have fled California to a half dozen nearby Western states in search of lower taxes, less regulation of business, better schools, less crowded highways and safer communities.
Continue reading →NEA Gears Up To Elect Democrats
Tropical Storm Bill roared into New Orleans this summer carrying in its tailwind 10,000 convention delegates who purport to represent 2.7 million members of the National Education Association. They call themselves “the world’s largest democratic, deliberative body,” but the NEA’s version of democracy is: majority rules, and the minority have no rights.
Continue reading →Government Discrimination Against U.S. Citizens
Do American jobhunters have to get their up-to-date employment news from The Economic Times of India?
Continue reading →What the Global Economy Costs Americans
The big argument for the tax cut just signed by President Bush is that it will create much-needed jobs. But one big question remains: will those jobs be created for Americans, or will corporations simply hire more job-seekers from India and China?
Continue reading →The Global Economy — It's Wonderful!
The Boston Globe revealed the reason why tens of thousands of information technology (IT) jobs have been outsourced overseas in the last couple of years, and why major American banks, brokerage houses, and insurance companies plan to shift 500,000 more jobs overseas in the next five years.
Continue reading →Where Are The Jobs Going?
The big argument for the tax cut Congress just passed is that it will create much-needed jobs. But one big question remains: will those jobs be created for Americans, or will corporations simply hire more job-seekers from India and China?
Continue reading →H-1B Visas Cost American Jobs
The corporations are lobbying to extend the Clinton Administration law that raised the number of H-1B visas to 195,000 a year, which otherwise is scheduled to expire on September 30 and revert to the 1999 level of 65,000.
Continue reading →In-State College Tuition For Illegal Aliens?
The officials of some state universities and colleges, and even some state legislators, seem to think they can get by with openly disobeying federal law. They are flagrantly violating the law that prohibits giving subsidized college tuition rates to illegal aliens.
Continue reading →Rising Costs of Tolerating Illegal Aliens
While Americans without health insurance struggle with the problem of how to pay for medical care, many Mexicans don’t have that problem.
Continue reading →Why Health Care Is So Costly
While Americans without health insurance struggle with the problem of how to pay for medical care, Mexicans don’t have that problem.
Continue reading →Can More Money Make Schools Better?
President Bush is celebrating the first anniversary of his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Education bill and hopes it will give a significant boost to his re-election in 2004.
Continue reading →U.S. Social Security For Mexicans?
Social Security, the so-called “third rail” of American politics, has just become more incendiary. The Bush Administration is proposing a change that is even more controversial than offering younger workers the opportunity to invest a small percentage of their Social Security taxes.
Continue reading →Congressional Agenda for 2003
The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
Continue reading →America Must Choose: Open Borders Or Civil Liberties
“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. … The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.”
Continue reading →Pretending Immigration Isn’t an Issue
The Republican National Committee’s mail-order fundraisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: border security/immigration.
Continue reading →Dealing With The High Costs Of Health Care
The big health-care debate in Congress this summer was over the wrong issue. Instead of threatening to bankrupt Medicare by forcing the taxpayers to buy prescription drugs for seniors, Congress should relieve the taxpayers and paying-patients of the burden of providing hospital care for illegal aliens.
Continue reading →Is the Era of Big Government Coming Back?
Having had to retreat from legislative attempts to establish a national ID card through Social Security numbers or unique health care identifiers, Congress seems to be trying a new tack to implement this wholly un-American idea.
Continue reading →Fast Track Is Unconstitutional
Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
Continue reading →Why The Democrats Won
“I am ruling out a tax increase,” the new Governor of debt-ridden New Jersey declared the day after his election. He said he is embarking on “an agonizing reappraisal of what government should do, and perhaps more importantly, what government ought not be doing.”
Continue reading →Is President Bush Being Outfoxed?
When demonstrators displayed anti-American signs against our President while traveling to Europe last month, we could brush it off as a bunch of street radicals getting their kicks. But it is an insult when a foreign head of state comes to the heart of the United States and attacks our laws while his audience waves foreign flags.
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