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Adam Clarke
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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?The Farms would do fine. The production for Wallmart would go to South America and Africa and cost marginally more.Field crops would stay here.We are developing a population of desperate people.
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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/new-farmers-find-their-footing/"But though sustainably produced food is too expensive for some, conventional food doesn’t reflect either the subsidies required to grow it or the huge environmental or health care costs it incurs. Once it does, sustainable food would appear far more competitive."This looks like the the most impoverished are getting "dole bread"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circusesWhat is required is organization of the bottom to force some level of comfort and health. Such is truly an entitlement. It is also "Welfare queens with Cadillacs".
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Sam Barr
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The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
“"The fiscal afterlife": David Stockman's stinging op ed about the budget wars is really well written. http://nyti.ms/h3BW4M”This was toxic when published and it remains toxic.The Tea Party loves it.
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We Need a New Generation of American Farmers - Room for Debate
If our lawmakers decide that American farmers should hire only American workers, then we as a country have a lot more work to do." In fact, many farmers already advertise jobs — with competitive wages, housing and transportation — to U.S. citizens to no avail, as part of the required process for then legally hiring skilled foreign guest workers through the U.S. government’s H-2A program."
The residents of shelters do not see these adds. What does "Competitive wages" mean?I have heard these claims before and they have been exposed as false.This man hires apprentices and has no immigration problems. -
Shloime Perel
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Eye of the Newt - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com#comment203#comment203#comment203#comment203
203.Back before he was Speaker and just a loudmouth Congressman from Georgia's Third District, he would visit our office (trying the peddle his beta version of the "Contract on America," er, "Contract With Ameria" to our campaign). We had to literally hide the women whenever he stopped by (he was also a serial sexual harrasser; I doubt he's changed much in 20 years no matter how much he protests otherwise).
Newt as President? Really? Isn't it a little early for April Fools?The campaign is moribund.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich_presidential_campaign,_2012
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A Chance to Reshape the Economy - Room for Debate
Is this dragged-out downturn an opportunity to make the U.S. economy stronger, or to rethink American work life?We can think.There will be no action while The Republican Partycan block legislation. -
Eduard Dobre
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A Chance to Reshape the Economy - Room for Debate
Is this dragged-out downturn an opportunity to make the U.S. economy stronger, or to rethink American work life?
"Adam S. Posen is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.We need to reshape the U.S. economy to stabilize real estate prices over future cycles. Our patchwork of policies fetishizing home ownership and over-encouraging mortgage debt fed the bubble, deepened its aftermath, and cutback state and local revenue at the wrong time. It makes workers less mobile, increasing unemployment. Our policy bias toward home ownership by debt also feeds inequality, low savings and even global warming (really). The current overhang of bad mortgages limits our recovery, but resolving those problems presents the opportunity for radical reform:" . . .
I see no reason to subsidize the Bank of England. The C.D.O. bonds are defaulted or nearly so. The sooner we clear this mess out of the way the sooner we can build some healthy banks."I'll be gone, you'll be gone" must be made to be the case.
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Adam Nagourney
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General McChrystal’s Twitters
How the American commander might have Twittered his way across Europe, Bud Light Lime in hand.General McChrystal is doing very well in the civilian world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_McChrystal
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Jenna Wortham
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Can New York Rival Silicon Valley for Start-Ups? - Room for Debate
“Can New York Rival Silicon Valley for Start-Ups? - Room for Debate - http://nyti.ms/nVgbJ9”
New York lacks the industrial base to manufacture physical objects on a start up basis. Crafts do ok. I have trouble finding an established hardware store. Home Depot is nearly a dead loss for me. W.W. Grainger exists but is hard to do business with.
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TJM
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N.Y. / Region
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, appeared in court with his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn_sexual_assault_case
She has filled a civil case. Charges have not been dropped.
You figure it out.
I think he is guilty.
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vortex78
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My New York: Fall Favorites
From Barbara Corcoran spilling her annual Thanksgiving secret to Michael Musto gushing about the Radio City Christmas show, notable locals share what they like to do in the city.
I miss the small specialized shops that were and are no more.
That part is now on the internet and browsing is a pain.
I see through my hands as well as my eyes. I want to touch.
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Mike M
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The Terror From Within
“Russell Jacoby: It isn't the foreigners we should fear - http://nyti.ms/oI5UOm”
Our borders are not so tight that determined people could not slip in a few really skilful bomb makers.
The evidence is that they have not.
We grow our own.
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Donald C
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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?
Maybe. What is grown for what price where would change.
We might see robots for stoop labour. Machine vision is very good at size and colour.
There could be money in it and it would be fun.
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Eileen
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Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent
President Obama's proposal for the 2011 budget.
Hide the mandatory spending and find what to cut.
I found nothing.
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Overinvestment in Higher Education - Room for Debate
More applicants.
It used to be that a college degree was a ticket to an upper-middle-class life. No longer.
Whine.
All the businesses I know are judged by their products.
That holds for schools.
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Ginny Hart
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Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says
Here's the logic: We can't force "regime change" in Iran as we did in Iraq because we're out of money, out of troops and out of moxie. We (and Israel) can't bomb Iran's nuclear-enrichment program out of existence because Qom showed that Iranians know how to bury it. But we've "got to do something." So we'll put in place a program of general economic sanctions that Iran's leaders (who are by no means stupid) will use to increase Iran's sense of paranoia and isolation and therefore their own hold on power. Should we do our best to prevent the international banking system from allowing money to flow to or from Iran in support of terror? Of course. Should be do our best to prevent nuclear-weapons parts and plans from reaching Iran's shores? Of course. But GENERAL economic sanctions will only be counterproductive. Ordinary people don't like things that make their own lives poorer. Didn't our own reaction to the bailouts teach us that? To the extent they go beyond interdicting financial support of terror and parts and plans for nuclear weapons, sanctions are a big mistake. The only place they ever worked was South Africa, and there only because a 90% racial majority was about to wage bloody revolt. If we want to encourage the peaceful opposition in Iran, general sanctions are precisely the wrong way to go about it. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are in trouble because they are poor economic managers and work only in their own interest (and even that erratically). General sanctions play right into their hands. It's the economy, stupid!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._sanctions_against_Iran
This page was last modified on 7 August 2011 at 03:22.
http://www.juancole.com/
http://www.juancole.com/?s=iran
Nothing recent.
http://www.juancole.com/?s=Iran+sanctions
This is what you want:
http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/dagan-ofer-and-israels-growing-iran-credibility-gap.html
You will want to confirm the elements.
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Why Gold Came to Be a Currency - Room for Debate
In ancient civilizations, gold was a logical choice for a currency. Now the argument for it is simple: tradition.
It is not now currency.
Gold is in a bubble. There will be a panic soon.
Remember the Hunt brothers attempted corner in silver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
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David Levine
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Fiscal Scare Tactics
These days it’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit. The deficit threatens economic recovery, we’re told; it puts American economic stability at risk; it will u...
Paul Krugman called it pretty close.
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Old Curmudgeon
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Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says
Here's the logic: We can't force "regime change" in Iran as we did in Iraq because we're out of money, out of troops and out of moxie. We (and Israel) can't bomb Iran's nuclear-enrichment program out of existence because Qom showed that Iranians know how to bury it. But we've "got to do something." So we'll put in place a program of general economic sanctions that Iran's leaders (who are by no means stupid) will use to increase Iran's sense of paranoia and isolation and therefore their own hold on power. Should we do our best to prevent the international banking system from allowing money to flow to or from Iran in support of terror? Of course. Should be do our best to prevent nuclear-weapons parts and plans from reaching Iran's shores? Of course. But GENERAL economic sanctions will only be counterproductive. Ordinary people don't like things that make their own lives poorer. Didn't our own reaction to the bailouts teach us that? To the extent they go beyond interdicting financial support of terror and parts and plans for nuclear weapons, sanctions are a big mistake. The only place they ever worked was South Africa, and there only because a 90% racial majority was about to wage bloody revolt. If we want to encourage the peaceful opposition in Iran, general sanctions are precisely the wrong way to go about it. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are in trouble because they are poor economic managers and work only in their own interest (and even that erratically). General sanctions play right into their hands. It's the economy, stupid!
http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/dagan-ofer-and-israels-growing-iran-credibility-gap.html
I hope the state department is doing its homework.
The intelligence services seem to be neglecting their duty.
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