Dear Professor Hanson,<\/p>\n
You are a hypocrite.<\/p>\n
You endlessly, in your writings and talks, decry people who say \u2018if it ain\u2019t perfect it ain\u2019t good\u2019, and yet you constantly moan about Obama just because he \u2018wasn\u2019t perfect\u2019 and did some crooked things. You, sir, are a hypocrite. You could at least admit that both parties stink and that all politicians are liars.<\/p>\n
By the way, you need to stop moaning about how \u2018the elite\u2019 should do more \u2018hands-on\u2019 work (I will soon start calling you Victor \u2018Hands-on\u2019 to reflect your obsession). Have you ever thought that maybe nobody wants to do those grueling back-breaking jobs for a dollar an hour, and that maybe some people want to get away from that life? Do you really think Donald J Trump, your hero, ever did a single day of hard basically unpaid work like that? Who would want that life if they could get a decent wage\u2014or better rich\u2014without breaking their back? Do you really expect kids to aspire to be fruit-pickers when they could be lawyers earning 200k a year working 5 days a week? I call BS.<\/p>\n
Maybe you\u2019re right in principle, but nobody is as principled as you who could or would want to do that. Also, lots of people in inner cities want to do that kind of manual labor or farm-work, but have no access or ability to do it because unlike you they don\u2019t have a farm of their own. How the h*ll can they do what you want them to do when they don\u2019t even have the social mobility to have access to the countryside? Heck, most people struggle just to pay the rent in the inner cities nowadays; most people are slaves to the state. I would rather be a real slave than have the fake urban \u2018freedom\u2019 (i.e. prison) that modern scum politicians have created for us.<\/p>\n
Dan Smith,<\/p>\n
Miami<\/p>\n
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Dear Angry Reader Dan Smith,<\/p>\n
Calm down; your anger clouds all reason. Most politicians, but not all, are liars. While I agree that both parties lie, at this particular juncture in American history, nevertheless the two parties are not morally equivalent.<\/p>\n
nstead they represent vastly different world views: identity politics versus the melting pot; illegal massive immigration vs. legal, measured, diverse, and meritocratic immigration; more taxes and larger government vs. lower taxes and less government; a therapeutic foreign policy vs. deterrence; less defense spending vs. more of it; curbs on expression vs. free speech. The antitheses are really quite endless.<\/p>\n
Obama did not grow the economy (sluggish and always less than 3%). His rhetoric divided the nation. The world abroad fell into chaos. The debt doubled. Taxes rose. Health care deductibles, premiums, and copays skyrocketed. Programs like cash for clunkers, \u201cshovel-ready\u201d jobs, or Solyndra-like subsidies were embarrassing. The border was left open. Eric Holder was cited for contempt by Congress. Corruption\u2014at the IRS, Secret Service, GSA, VA, and EPA\u2014was commonplace. Reporters had their communications tapped. Unmasking and leaking were normative. Need I go on? Obama was an iconic president\u2014fine; but there was no record of accomplishment and a great deal of deliberate polarization.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is not my hero; did I write that? He is a corrective to the Obama years. Few others were willing to take up that role.<\/p>\n
Stopping illegal immigration and pro-growth policies might give entry-level workers clout with their employers, and allow wages to rise. The proponent of open borders is the proponent of low wages. \u201cFruit pickers\u201d could once again be summer job seekers and entry level employment that soon led to higher paying and more skilled work, especially if labor is not cheap and accessible through illegal immigration. I think my writings have supported the idea that muscular labor should be more highly rewarded.<\/p>\n
Do you not see that the opponent of illegal immigration wishes wages to rise and inner-city youth to be in demand as workers?<\/p>\n
In a full-employment economy, employers could not ignore inner city youths, but would work with them to reenter the work force. I don\u2019t see at all the morality of importing a half-million foreign nationals to work when we have millions of Americans who are not employed and have dropped permanently out of the work force.<\/p>\n
Finally, no one is a perpetual victim. We all face constant pressures and personal tragedies. Claiming always of a stacked deck and blaming others or cosmic forces in general guarantee personal failure.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to engage your questions, but there are few coherent inquiries here.<\/p>\n
Victor Hanson<\/p>\n
Selma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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