{"id":406,"date":"2007-06-15T07:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2007-06-15T09:59:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T13:59:44","slug":"lets-get-cynical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s get cynical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chi-oped0615hansonjun15,0,3572510.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed\">V.D.Hanson<\/a> sees right through your pro-immigration stance, university perseffers:<\/p>\n<p>>Most cynical of all, however, are the moralistic pundits, academics and journalists who deplore the &#8220;nativism&#8221; of Americans they consider to be less-educated yokels. <strong>Yet their own jobs of writing, commenting, reporting and teaching are rarely threatened by cheaper illegal workers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>>Few of these <strong>well-paid<\/strong> and highly educated people live in communities altered by huge influxes of illegal aliens. In general, such elites don&#8217;t use emergency rooms in the inner cities and rural counties overcrowded by illegal aliens. They don&#8217;t drive on country roads frequented by those without licenses, registration and insurance. And their children don&#8217;t struggle with school curricula altered to the needs of students who speak only Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-senn_jp_head_14jun14,1,7984218.story\">Teaching<\/a>.  Cynical.  <\/p>\n<p>But perhaps Hanson is on to something, not eve the jobs of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/06\/14\/MNG3DQF4U11.DTL\">California Republican Party<\/a> are safe from foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;nativism&#8221; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s get cynical<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,54,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circumstantial","category-things-that-are-false","category-vdhanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}