Imports, Exports and International Commerce

Today's paper was replete with striking reports of happenings in the world.  An editorial by Thomas Sowell entitled Gingrich and immigration spoke of how the United States is proving it's convictions relative to immigration either by plumping for amnesty for all peoples currently residing in the US whether the have legitimate citizenship documentation or not, or whether we promote a house by house manhunt for all without papers and summarily dump them on the other side of the border.  Mr. Sowell's main point was that an equivocation was being made where people saw the immigration issue the same a importation of goods, namely that there should be open and free trade of goods worldwide so likewise there should be a free coming and going of all people worldwide with no restrictions.  Mr. Sowell described the differences, however, in a good and a person who brings a culture with them and procreates to create a furtherance and increase of that culture.

In another article by the McClatchy News Service entitled Nigeria's Senate votes to criminalize gay marriage had the Senate leader claiming that gay marriage was an import from the West.  He said, "The whole idea is the importation of foreign culture, but this would be one freedom too many.  We cannot allow our traditions and value system to be eroded."  This statement implicitly states that the United States' value system has already been eroded, since we are now freely exporting such as a commodity.  There again are obvious differences as much of Nigeria has not proposed any resistance to the criminal law passage as the country enforces Sharia law to punish same-sex relations by stoning.  Opponents to the law have similar arguments, however, as one spokesperson for rescinding the law said that outlawing gay marriage was a "gross violation of fundamental human rights."

Finally, in an article by the Associated Press entitled World's central banks act to ease market strains it seems that amid a constant parade of national bailouts the world is jumping from crisis to crisis and gaining confidence not from widespread stabilization of worldwide national debts and currency valuation based on a fixed point of reference but rather on how quickly the world community acts to prop up ailing nations so they can limp along until the next crisis.  Most troubling is the fact that the World Bank was only able to provide the bailout after China reduced bank reserve levels to make more money available.

In all three cases there is a common theme, there are people not willing to do what is hard to address problems effecting all mankind.  With regard to immigration it is hard to stand up and acknowledge that although people occupying a nation are in fact people and cannot just be loaded up on a ship and dropped off in a dingy in the ocean en masse, aliens do bring a culture with them and although all are not criminals no nation can accommodate a free border system and reasonably expect to provide security for it's citizens.  Something serious must be done that most people won't like but is right.

With regard to homosexual unions it is hard to stand up and acknowledge that marriage reaches beyond tradition and culture and cannot be addressed satisfactorily in a purely legal process while also being aware of the obvious logical fallacy that celebrating any lifestyle one chooses is equal with being denied food and water or other fundamental human rights.  There must be a standard for the very existence of fundamental human rights on which such "value systems" are based and then determine the legitimacy with which behaviors are celebrated or disavowed.  Making a stand for a standard by which to measure any "value system" and the precipitating statement of illegitimacy for relations outside those that align with the standard won't be liked by most people but it is right.

With regard to worldwide economics it must be acknowledged that many people will suffer if national banking collapses or is rendered functionally impotent while at the same time recognizing the obviousness that a nation cannot spend more than it produces or just print more currency that is not equally valuated against a fixed point of reference and continue to flourish.  For the US in particular either a return to the gold standard or some other fixed point of reference and/or major cuts where spending falls far below production so that legitimate debt obligation can be met the real crisis will hit and suffering on a much larger scale will result.  Something serious must be done that most won't like but is right.

In all cases the right thing must be done or serious consequences will be the result.  The question for all is what is right, and is there even such thing as right that applies to all people in these matters?  What standards are there for a value system that governs immigration, marriage and economics?  It is absolutely critical that those questions be answered with confidence and singularity.  I am confident in the singularity that can successfully address all those issues and all other effecting humanity.  What about you?