Politics
"Carter, 60, spent more than two years as the Defense Department’s No. 2 civilian leader, under former Secretary Leon Panetta and then Hagel. He also served under Obama’s first Pentagon chief, Robert Gates, as the military’s top weapons buyer.
Carter has a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University,
where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as chairman of the
International and Global Affairs faculty at Harvard University’s John F.
Kennedy School of Government."
"Overhauling Education, Immigration, Energy and Tax Code Are Among His Priorities"
Ferguson Shooting
The residents of Ferguson can and should transfer their anger to
Politics.
Half of the
City Council will be
up for election in April.
- Organizing and nominating a set of candidates,
- Registering voters and
- Running election campaigns
would be far more exciting and is surely
the best possible way to bring about lasting change.
[Note: Voter turnout in Ferguson has been only 11 percent to 12 percent. For black residents, the number has been even lower.]
Let there be increased political awareness and constructive political involvement among American youth.
Hispanics / Latino Americans
Immigration Reform
"IMMIGRATION is the quintessential supply-side policy. It expands the
labour force, encourages investment and provides taxpayers to support
America’s growing ranks of the grey-haired.
The reform that passed the Senate last year (but was never taken up
by the House of Representatives), besides legalizing millions of illegal
immigrants, would have created new entry routes for foreign workers,
especially those with skills, experience and education. The
Congressional Budget Office reckoned it would boost the population in a
decade’s time by 10m, the number of workers by 6m, and the level of GDP
by 3.3%.
By contrast, Mr Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers reckons his
order will boost GDP in the next decade by between 0.4% and 0.9%, mostly
because of provisions unrelated to illegal immigration. These give
foreign entrepreneurs more ways to get into America, allow the spouses
of skilled visa-holders to work, and let foreign-born science graduates
spend more time in America doing their training.
In theory, the economy should benefit as illegal immigrants, no
longer fearing they will be deported, switch to jobs better suited to
their skills.
Legal immigration has been around 1m a year for the past decade, and is
edging down as a share of the population. Illegal
immigration more or less came to a halt in 2007. Since then, the number
of illegal immigrants freshly arrived in the country has been roughly
balanced, or exceeded, by the number who have left, died or been
deported. The longer Congress goes without legislating a change, the
costlier it will be for the economy."
