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Written by Gary North on July 9, 2016
Except when he offers his views on tariffs, namely, that sales taxes on imports would help America, I like Pat Buchanan’s views. He sees that the West is in a state of moral decline. He sees that Europe is committing suicide demographically. This is visible in the various national birth rates: below replacement rate of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 21, 2015
In 1980, Jimmy Carter got a law through Congress to set up a government-funded refugee resettlement program. You can read about it here. Under this program, our tax dollars have paid to fly 100,000 Somalis and 100,000 Iraqis to the U.S. They then go on local welfare rolls. All the political posturing about the border […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 7, 2015
At the same time, this is only the beginning of the crisis, because the conditions inciting people to flee their homelands will only worsen. And the EU, many of whose members have the world’s largest and best-equipped welfare systems, appears to be overwhelmed by it — politically, morally, and administratively. This paralysis creates a significant […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 3, 2015
Europe is humanistic. “Religion doesn’t divide us any more.” Europe is liberal. “We’re all liberals here.” Europe has a huge welfare state. “Come and get it!” Europe does not reproduce at replacement rate: 2.1 children per woman. “The future is irrelevant.” Here comes the future! To read about the situation in Germany, click the link.
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 22, 2014
Central planning by the federal government is officially opposed by conservatives until you show them a marker that says “United States” on one side, and “Mexico” on the other. Then: “Congress needs to build a fence!” The believers in fences offer many arguments. Some of them say this: “Those people want to get free government […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 22, 2014
The prestigious Financial Times offers an explanation for the West’s pessimism. It blames aging. It does not blame Keynesianism. It does not blame a loss of faith in the idea of progress, a factor that Robert Nisbet warned against in the Epilogue to his great book, History of the Idea of Progress (1980). It does […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 19, 2014
Beginning in 2015 and escalating from then on, skilled workers from all over the world will have the digital equivalent of green cards. They will be legal to hire. They will flood into America’s middle-class job markets. The last major barrier is coming down: the language barrier. Mercantilism is about to get hammered in the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 17, 2014
This is another cliché of protectionism. I keep adding more, here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/department162.cfm The logic of economics applies across borders: county, state, and national. Deny this, and you deny economics. Conservatives deny economics. They promote tariffs and import quotas across national borders, but not state and county borders. Ludwig von Mises had a word for this: […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 12, 2014
This is an official document from the U.S. State Department. We applaud the 25 countries that have agreed to resettle Syrian refugees, including some who will be accepting UNHCR refugee referrals for the first time. The United States accepts the majority of all UNHCR referrals from around the world. Last year, we reached our goal […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 6, 2014
First, he got some bureaucrat to sign an executive action letting illegal aliens remain in the USA. This is not an Executive Order, so Congress cannot pin the tail on Obama. Smart. Second, he lets La Raza encourage them to register. Smart. Third, the IRS issues Social Security cards to them. Fourth, they get into […]
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