The Corner

Comparative Advantage

According to Obama yesterday (and others on the left on other days) it’s a bad thing when American jobs are lost to foreign workers. So why do they not think it’s not a bad thing when those foreign workers come here and take American jobs?

I mean, if you’re an American worker who has lost his job, is it really worse if that job goes to a guy living in Mexico City than if that job goes to a guy who is from Mexico City?

Wouldn’t a better outcome all around be for foreign workers to stay home with their friends and families, get jobs, earn livings– and then buy products made by American workers?

Clifford D. MayClifford D. May is an American journalist and editor. He is the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative policy institute created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, ...
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