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Not Enough Doctors
Last week (or maybe longer ago than that), Yahoo! News reported a frightening trend in the United States – that being a shortage of doctors, specifically in rural areas. A shortage of doctors, not in Kenya, Laos, or even the U.K., although I’m sure those countries have their own problems. A large part of the problem in the U.S. is onerous restrictions on immigration: Doctors recruited from places such as India, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa to work in underserved areas like the Mississippi Delta and the lonesome West already face an arduous and expensive gauntlet of agencies, professional tests and background checks to secure work papers and permanent residency.” This is nothing new, and as Aaron Kinney explains, it is not a problem local only to doctors (or … Read entire article »
Filed under: Economic Fallacies, Government is Slavery, immigration
An Exchange
Gustave de Molière wrote some satire back in the day – the quality of which I cannot hope to touch, probably ever. That said, I participated rather actively on a Detroit Free Press discussion forum for the article which inspired my post, “Jobs Americans Won’t Do”. Now, I try to stay away from public forums like this, because they are usually populated by idiots. Anyhow, what follows is a transcription of the discussion I had. For continuity’s sake, I have mildly re-ordered some of the thread, but I believe I have not omit or changed the implication of my opponent’s position. My portion of the debate began with a simple question regarding the nominal (and completely arbitrary) “illegality” of immigration. The response that followed started … Read entire article »
Filed under: immigration, Michigan
On Immigration: The Good Stuff
The video I watched last night says that the 1990s saw the biggest population boom in U.S. History. This is undoubtedly true. What NumbersUSA does not tell us, is that this is in strictly nominal terms. Sure, the country’s population grew by more persons during that decade than in any other decade in history. But is this the relevant metric? I submit that it is not. Furthermore, does NumbersUSA present that information in a useful format? Again, the answer is no. The relevant metric, first and foremost, would be population growth as a percentage of population. To the latter point of contention, the numbers are not readily comparable unless they are measured over standard intervals. The video that razorgator submitted for my … Read entire article »
Filed under: Economic Fallacies, immigration, Seen and Unseen, World Politics