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Thursday, June 3, 2021

'Social Justice' Means Treating Some People Unjustly

The definition of 'social justice' is imprecise. That's where the rub begins. It has precise meaning only for its user, is what the user wants it to be. So, can it be precisely defined? Perhaps, if we focus upon its application.

In his 1999 book The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote, "In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power."

That explains the ultimate objective of social justice: a never-ending expansion of government power [emphasis mine].

Sowell defines social justice (which he labels 'cosmic justice,' the relief of all misfortune) as an effort which seeks to eliminate undeserved disadvantages for selected groups. He defines 'undeserved disadvantages' by referencing Dr. Thomas Nagle's definition: 'unequal starting points' certain people have through no fault of their own.

What governmental policies (which Sowell universally rejects) can be enacted to reduce or eliminate unequal starting points? To answer that, Sowell references John Rawls, who insisted 'having everyone play by the same rules or be judged by the same standards' was not sufficient. True equality of opportunity meant 'adjusting starting points to provide everyone with equal prospects of success from equal individual efforts,' and 'putting [selected] segments of society in the position that they would have been in but for some undeserved...

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Chamber of Commerce Creates Lobbying Campaign to Lower American Wages

Once again, the United States Chamber of Commerce has proven to the American public that their loyalties lie solely with large corporations, the investor class, and a commitment to infinite GDP growth - no matter the cost.

This time, the Chamber of Commerce has started a lobbying campaign to massively increase legal immigration into the United States, specifically a momentous increase in foreign visa workers to further stagnate and even lower prevailing wages in the American job market.

Disingenuously labeled the “American Works Agenda,” the Chamber of Commerce intends to lobby federal lawmakers and state lawmakers to do what they can to greatly expand the rate of legal immigration.

For context, approximately 1.2 million legal immigrants are given green cards (legal permanent resident status) annually in the U.S. This is in addition to the roughly 1.4 million foreign nationals given visas to take U.S. jobs despite a U6 unemployment rate still over 10%.

The Chamber of Commerce, through their new lobbying effort, is demanding that lawmakers:

At least double employment-based green cards to 280,000 admissions a year
Eliminate per-country caps, allowing India and China to monopolize employment-based green card categories
Double the annual number of H-1B visas awarded to foreign workers
Double the annual number of H-2B visas awarded to foreign workers
Expand the H-2A visa program to allow non-seasonal agricultural businesses to import foreign workers
Allow foreign students to more easily secure employment-based green cards after graduation
Provide amnesty to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program
Provide amnesty to foreign nationals enrolled in Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
Allow local politicians to import foreign workers to take American jobs in their local economy and to drive up population growth

Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark is attempting to peddle the campaign as an effort to address some mythical “worker shortage” threatening "the business community" (America's largest corporations) - again, despite the facts that 16.4 million Americans remain jobless, 5.2 million remain underemployed, and tens of millions more who are marginally attached to the labor force.

Truthfully, the lobbying campaign is nothing more than the usual attempt, this time by the Chamber of Commerce, to create a boon for Big Business by unnaturally inflating the U.S. labor market - allowing unscrupulous employers to cut Americans’ wages, reduce the cost of labor, and increase profit margins. For this reason, American wages have been effectively stagnant for over 40 years.

In what appears to be an emerging pattern, the Chamber of Commerce’s lobbying goals, like most of Washington’s current ideas, are vastly out of step with what a majority of Americans see as a positive direction for the nation.

Just this week, the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey “revealed that 72 percent of likely U.S. voters want to cut legal immigration levels, 62 percent want businesses to recruit jobless Americans for jobs over importing...