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Opinion: Lou Dobbs “American Hypocrite” or “Luminary”
Posted on 15 October 2010 by oscar
From: Ponte Al Dia
Horse grooming and landscaping are two service industries that cater to the extremely wealthy and upper-middle class Americans.
Who else can afford prize-winning million dollar purebred horses?
How many in our self-sufficient do-it-yourself American society can afford the luxury of contracting professional landscaping?
Yet being wealthy, even to the extreme, does not mean being willing to foot the cost of decent wages, social security taxes, humane working conditions, or if need be, obtaining the necessary work visas for foreign workers, all these are costs associated with the labor that supports luxurious living.
There is a formula to offset the bothersome cost of decent wages and the time consuming interaction with other human beings. The formula pioneered by the wealthy, by corporations, and now by middleclass Americans, it is called outsourcing.
Beyond a certain threshold of personal income, that is a million dollars plus a year, it becomes no longer a matter of the wealthy being concerned with how to afford luxury. Cutting corners is a matter of accumulating greater wealth because of greed. Outsourcing is the answer.
One such millionaire is Lou Dobbs. During the heyday of his anti-immigrant daily rants at CNN not only did he boast as many as 800,000 spectators, but he also would earn $6 million a year between 2006 and 2009.
Dobbs pharisaic hypocrisy became apparent thanks to an exposé prepared by The Nation and published October 7. The “fearless commentator” who lashed out against “illegal aliens” and those who hire them, was in fact at fault.
A yearlong research made it clear that Dobbs himself contracted companies who hired “illegal aliens” as horse grooms and landscapers. For Dobbs this was cheap, and outsourcing offered an almost bulletproof alibi.
The relentless Dobbs whom we also should refer to as “luminary”, “distinguished American” and “father of the year” –based on his many awards and his senatorial and presidential aspirations- epitomizes the “American Hypocrite” as The Nation’s Isabel Macdonald titled her exposé.
Nevertheless Lou Dobbs is quick to assert his innocence, thanks to the alibi afforded by outsourcing were he can claim someone else did it, and that the 145 year old The Nation is nothing but a leftist pamphlet, in a lame attempt to shoot the messenger.
The case of Lou Dobbs doing just what everyone else does illustrate two things: immigrant labor is distinctly sought after by the very wealthy, and hypocrisy is the effective weapon that enables the greatest scam in American history.
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