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Entry: Huckabee: The New Huey Long Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/huckabee_the_new_huey_long#12142 Post contents: Andy Capp sez: "Wages are falling because of monetary inflation, not immigrants picking cabbage, hanging drywall, or busing tables." Wages are falling because while jobs are being "outsourced to China and India, the new jobs being created are mainly bartenders and housemaids. YOUR America doesn’t create anything that anyone wants, and what the US does manage to export is subsidized by the government. The wages of the “Mexicans picking cabbage and hanging drywall” of course, are also subsidized by the government in the form of the Unearned Income Tax credit, food stamps, subsidized housing, and the other forms of wealth transfer from the public to the people who hire them. Of course, the hypocrisy of the “libertarian“ position on “free“ trade is plainly not “free”, as the US retains it’s protections for lawyers, doctors, dentists and the other highly paid workers, who don’t have to compete with foreign workers. The average dentist makes $150,000 a year, so if we really had “free” <snicker> trade, and foreign dentists could enter the US to practice medicine, and THEIR wages fell to $100,000, then the savings to the public would be incomparable to the “Mexicans picking cabbage and hanging drywall” that YOU champion. As <snicker> “free trade”. Oh, and none other then Ron Paul is a doctor, and of course, this so-called “libertarian” is also the beneficiary of this form of protectionism. But then again, YOU and the other “Libertarian” ideologues were never very consistent when it comes to their own self interest. Let others bear the burden of YOUR notion of a “free society”. Sent at: 2008 07 24