Let’s get cynical

V.D.Hanson sees right through your pro-immigration stance, university perseffers:

>Most cynical of all, however, are the moralistic pundits, academics and journalists who deplore the “nativism” of Americans they consider to be less-educated yokels. Yet their own jobs of writing, commenting, reporting and teaching are rarely threatened by cheaper illegal workers.

>Few of these well-paid and highly educated people live in communities altered by huge influxes of illegal aliens. In general, such elites don’t use emergency rooms in the inner cities and rural counties overcrowded by illegal aliens. They don’t drive on country roads frequented by those without licenses, registration and insurance. And their children don’t struggle with school curricula altered to the needs of students who speak only Spanish.

Teaching. Cynical.

But perhaps Hanson is on to something, not eve the jobs of the California Republican Party are safe from foreigners.

5 thoughts on “Let’s get cynical”

  1. ah, yes. the old “i know you are, but what am i?” ploy. how very courageous and daring of hansen to employ the pee-wee herman defense of nativism.

  2. When did Hansen, in his article, say anything about jobs needing to be safe from foreigners?

    Is this your zinger? It’s not even apt.

    What gives?

  3. “Yet their own jobs of writing, commenting, reporting and teaching are rarely threatened by cheaper illegal workers”

    Right there.

  4. Very funny catch.

    Actually though in my field technical writing we are definitely threatened by English speaking workers in India and even China. And distance education firms are proliferating in India.

    I have seen data that increased immigrant populations rates lower the wages and increases the unemployment rates of high school graduates but not college grads. So there is some truth there.

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