CNNs Lou Dobbs

I found myself watching Lou Dobbs on CNN and thinking how CNN seems to be becoming its own version of Fox News. Bizarre excuse for logic flowing from this man's mouth.

I do think it interesting that so many American commentators use their so called opinion polls the way they do. I mean, what is an opinion poll, after all? A thousand people (and where do they find them?) are asked a series of questions, and then this "information" is used, supposedly to make people think they're odd if they don't agree with the majority. This is a peculiar logic that's been used for millenia. No logical reason for it at all, except in that it's reliant on the fact that most people are generally too stupid to think for themselves.

Much legislation is passed with the knowledge that most people are poor thinkers. It's a sad thing, and the antithesis of meritocracy, of course.

I emailed dear Lou on the subject of immigration. He's got a stick up his arse about the fact that many people work in America and are "taking the jobs of Americans" because of the low wages they get paid. Presumably General motors, Ford, and all the other car giants currently straining to survive will recover in jubilation that an American workforce will be there, ready to be paid proper American wages for a job that people in other countries do for far less.

Then of course there are the US corporations that take their factories abroad. How that's not taking jobs away from Americans is beyond me. Walmart, for example, uses Chinese labor for all the goods it sells. We all know most of the stuff we buy in the shops nowadays comes from China. Isn't that taking away American jobs?

Then there are the IT and service people at the end of your phone when you need help. How many of them are in India, or Bangladesh, or Jamaica, or somewhere else in some far off, densely populated, poor region of the planet soon,

But no. Mr Dobbs has decided to dupe the public into the belief that immigrants - illegal immigrants, that is - are a bad thing for the country.

But I have to ask: I wonder how much construction would have been done in America in recent years without them? Or pots and pans washed, or tables cleared, or houses painted, or apartments cleaned, or fields worked in, or...

Do stop talking nonsense, Lou Dobbs, and stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

The American way - capitalism - has been sold very well to the rest of the world. And capitalism has spread its effective, but greedy mitts, across the globe. We now live in a global society, and your attempts to stop the natural flow of the forces of nature are in vain.

Personally, I think the whole world is in the process of changing fundamentally. The internet alone is playing a major role in that. Soon, we'll see national boundaries disappear altogether. When Ronald Reagan said "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" it was a cry for the kind of freedom to trade and live and be employed that meant true liberty for all. It was an ideal that Lou Dobbs plainly doesn't agree with.