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Elizabeth Warren, Economic Nationalist
By Orion on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 3:57am |On this score, Warren may be a bigger economic nationalist than even Trump himself. She promises that her new federal department will be responsible for drawing up a “national jobs strategy,” with an eye towards revitalizing regions that have been struggling to compete within the global economy. This national strategy will “establish clear goals for American jobs and American industry that will guide how the Department of Economic Development prioritizes its investments and direct its programs.”
The idea that the federal government ought to help “guide” the economy has not been a popular one amongst post-Reagan conservatives, but it appears to be catching on with a growing contingent of right-wing economic nationalists. Matthew J. Peterson of the Claremont Institute, for example, recently argued that conservatives have historically favored not only protectionism, but large-scale government investments. He enthusiastically reminded his readers that President Abraham Lincoln “signed the ‘Western New Deal,’ using the powers of the national government to promote westward expansion: passing The Homestead Act to give away public lands, the Pacific Railway Act for national infrastructure, creating the land grant college system, and the Department of Agriculture.”
The programs praised by Peterson are not substantially different from those proposed by Warren. If suggested by Trump, many of Warren’s policies would undoubtedly be endorsed by populist conservatives. The spirit of central planning beats just as strongly within the breast of the nationalist conservative as it does within the nationalist progressive.
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Liz says "Let em all in!"
We're gonna get creamed.
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/a-fair-and-welcoming-immigration-system-8...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 5:00pm
So I read it, she doesn't actually say that but what she doesn't do is say the words "we want it to be fair" enough times. As in: many times. As in: doing something illegal will not be rewarded. So yes, it is going to be spun as "let em all in".'
I think the main way to defuse the concerns of most who freak out about immigration levels is to push the idea that the system is going to encourage preference to those who will be self-sustaining taxpayers in every way. This is why support for the Dreamers is so high. People just don't want to be supplementing with their taxes the income of more big families living on two minimum wages that are going to remain mired in poverty for several generations. I always hear: there's enough of those right now, take care of what we got first. Yes, their great grandparents were no doubt immigrants very much like that but that was before all the social programs and stuff like free school lunch and bi-lingual education facilitation. ..
I do think that there's not enough sophistication about many readings about polls about immigration. I don't think many Americans are xenophobes, quite the opposite. But many don't really cotton to all the words of Emma Lazarus' poem anymore, as far as taking on the wretched and the poor of the whole world, i.e., no longer believing we have the luxury of having basically an open border at Ellis Island, turning only those away with tuberculosis.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 9:13pm
World population was 1.5 billion in 1880, Emma Lazarus' time, vs 8 billion now. US territory had grown hugely from 1803 to 1870. It hasn't grown since.
This weird hype that Warren's going to use immigrants to grow the economy - like how?
How are we creating productivity from uneducated immigrants in a services-focused highly trained world?? What's our actual worker target? And it's one thing for Spanish-speaking natives, but Central American speaking indigenous languages (formerly called "Indian") - how do we fit those kids into a classroom, those adults in a computer class? A lot of wand-waving non-economic science, induateial policy w/o the analysis. I thought Liz was the wonkish report-bearer.
And when we go back to Lazarus' time, the level of skills and education for European refugees was pretty high compared to the existing population and the work demands of the fairly primitive agricultural-coal-sweatshop economy of the time.
I mean sure, we can use taxi drivers and bedpan changers and a variety of menials, but how many? And how many will rise through our $60k/year college system to the learn the skills of tomorrow? I like fantasy films as much as the next guy, but i've seen this one aon few too many times, and the ending's always a bit too cute and forced.
There's already a huge problem with lack of affordable housing in cities, where the jobs are. It's not like 150 years ago where you give them a lot of land to grow tomatoes and a sheep and they're set. The exburbs have limited ability to absorb more people., which is part of the tension that drives our anxiety. What's the real plan, Stan?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:16am
Anxiety is a good word to bring up on topic.
I haven't listened to this, I just noticed on a menu of "Washington Post reports". But I've read plenty of similar. If people aren't saying this type of thing about themselves, they are at least seeing it reported like I do:
Latest episode:
‘A constant state of drowning’: 40% of Americans say they struggle to pay bills
Listen29:34
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 4:53am
US population in 1880: 50 million
US population in 2020: 335 million, nearly 7 times as big.
Emma's humanitarian sentiments are still glowing.
The actual policies to help these desperate people yearning to be free
as always have to evolve, both in light of the locals "drowning"
inevitable resistance) but as well via
lessons learned on how economies grow and prosper,
how they don't, and what makes & breaks a refugee crisis.
But for the most part the last 30-40 years we've chosen to let in those in the 5 or 6 countries
nearby south of the border, and ignore many of the neediest around the world.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 5:50am
just so we don't get carried away believing every bit of the ancestral folklore about the open door at Ellis Island et. al., here's a contra data point from a Japanese Historian of the US. Specializes in immigration and nativism. Wrote
#ExpellingthePoor (OUP) https://goo.gl/sQ9GQD Writing a book on contract labor migration:by artappraiser on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 1:19am