{"id":12622,"date":"2023-08-03T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2023-08-10T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:35:04","slug":"it-is-not-about-grandmothers-romney-it-is-about-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=12622","title":{"rendered":"It is Not about Grandmothers Romney, It Is About Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Alex Gonzalez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What infuriates me is that this is a debate over water that has already fallen over the dam. Romney mimicked immigration restrictionists\u2019 arguments<\/a>\u2026\u00a0 As for Mitt Romney, aside from what I (but perhaps not many Republican primary voters) consider his shameful attempt to demagogue the immigration issue\u2014Michael Barone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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I am not sure how many  Republicans and Conservatives really think that Mitt Romney is anti-Immigrant, he is not.  But his policies are.  His  views  on immigration are un-conservative because they do not reflect the conservative tenets of free market capitalist society.  They lean more toward that of a \u201crestrictionist\u201d nation.  For someone who claims to be a very successful free enterprise capitalist, not knowing basic principles of labor supply-and-demands, and simple mathematics, is pure naivet\u00e9.   Furthermore, playing naive with the intention of stirring resentment between native and foreign workers is not a conservative principle.   Perhaps, Newt Gingrich is right when he stated \u201cout the four candidates\u201d Romney has the most anti-immigrant views.  This is a truth that could hurt the American economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitt Romney claims that there are 11 millions of \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d working in jobs that could go to 11 million of Americans.   This is unlikely.   First, 11 million is now more like 10 million according the US census.   Additionally,  only about 7 million,  or 5%, are able bodies working  in the national labor force.  Also, according to labor statistics and the Congressional Budget Office, 77%<\/a> of the jobs performed by undocumented workers  are jobs native workers don\u2019t want\u2014agriculture, services, meat packing etc\u2026And this has proven to be true in Georgia and Alabama more recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officially, the national unemployment level is at 8.5%, which means that there are about 13.5 million of unemployed Americas.  In a free market economy like the American economy, 5% unemployment is considered full-employment because you have to provide workers with the necessary setting to change jobs if they want, and to retrain for any new jobs created by new technologies, or to acquire new skills. A system of Full-employment with zero unemployment would be considered socialism.  In essence, we only need to create about 6.5 million jobs to go back to a 5% full-employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n