Globalists Care for Gain, Not Countrymen

The battle between the anti-globalizers and the globalization adapters, if you will, is playing out in education, trade, and immigration policy. Unfortunately, too many are playing a cynical game of anti-globalization. . . . Immigration nativists ignore that we need the best and the brightest from around the globe . . . and we still need many more STEM workers to fuel growth and innovation . . . .” – Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, A Race to the Bottom on Trade and Immigration, 4/23/15.

Fact Check: Rubin espouses globalism, an ideology that is anti-national and anti-patriotic. It puts forth the notion that business interests should be able to move goods and people across national boundaries with no concern about what negative effects their profiteering may have on national communities. Globalists promote “free trade,” claiming that the unrestricted movement goods will promote maximum economic efficiency and wealth for parties involved. Currently, the Obama Administration is pushing a major free trade agreement.

They have lots of economic studies supporting their claims, but practical experience in the real world is another matter. A case in point is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect in 1994. It proponents claimed that it would enrich Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. They conceded that it would eliminate many U.S. manufacturing jobs by opening our markets to cheap foreign manufactures. But they said not to worry because American losing those jobs could retrain in high tech fields, and thereby keep earning middle-class salaries. They also promised that NAFTA would end illegal immigration by providing more jobs in Mexico.

What happened? We indeed lost a lot of manufacturing jobs, but well-paying high tech jobs did not replace them—at least not very many for Americans. A few years before NAFTA went into effect, U.S. tech companies began importing foreign workers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, math) because they could pay them less than Americans and make them work harder. Also, NAFTA did nothing to stop illegal immigration. Illegal aliens, continued to pour into the U.S. and take jobs from unskilled Americans. Still, it profited the employers of these lawbreakers.

Companies seeking foreign tech workers maintain, like Rubin, that we need to import STEM workers to get the “best and brightest.” They further maintain that there aren’t enough Americans to fill STEM positions. Neither is true. Foreigners coming in on temporary visa programs are typically people of average ability. Far from there being a shortage of native-born Americans in STEM, the reality is that most citizens with STEM degrees are either unemployed or working in other fields.

The bottom line is that globalists don’t care what happens to Americans because America is not significant to them as a homeland. The following quote by Thomas Jefferson doesn’t apply to all merchants, but it certainly fits those of the globalist persuasion: “Merchants have no country. The mere spot where they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”

 

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