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NYT Columnist Farhad Manjoo: There's Nothing Wrong With Open Borders

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-18 01:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 NYT Columnist Farhad Manjoo has never heard of David Ricardo.

Here's a suggestion... Maybe he should let anyone who wants to work for the NYTs work there, they can dilute the wages of the current staff for every new person and cram a few more desks in here an' there. I'm sure Farhad wouldn't be opposed.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-18 02:00|| 2019-01-18 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps the author can enlighten us regarding the benefits of 'open borders' in his native South Africa.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-18 02:08|| 2019-01-18 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Show some Charity, Farhad Manjoo! "Adopt A Migrant Family" and pay all of the Federal, State and Local benefits yourself so that taxes are not raised on the uninvolved. Don't be so quick to spend Other Peoples' Money™.

Posted by magpie 2019-01-18 02:52|| 2019-01-18 02:52|| Front Page Top

#4 After six months, 100 million Chinese would have moved here in the greatest human migration in history. They would vote for Chinese candidates and in general be separatist.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-01-18 04:03|| 2019-01-18 04:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Imagine that if you passed a minimal background check, you’d be free to live, work, pay taxes and die in the United States.

So he's not really advocating open borders. He just wants a different entrance exam than the current law allows.

Posted by Bobby 2019-01-18 09:46|| 2019-01-18 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Farhad Manjoo sounds like a real All-American name - maybe we should listen to him.

/sarc

Posted by Raj 2019-01-18 10:47|| 2019-01-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Oddly enough, encountering his name almost always puts me in mind, briefly but vividly, of... an all-American charitable organization. Good to see them hanging in there.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2019-01-18 11:50|| 2019-01-18 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 This is an analogy.

Imagine you're a Disneyland shareholder and you hear them stating that they're going to end the entry fee and you realise that some of the board have a separate company that owns hotels inside and nearby...

Wonder what you'd think?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-18 12:40|| 2019-01-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

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