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January 16, 2007
Last night's speaker
Last night I saw Michael Dukakis (1988 presidential candidate) speak at The Institute of the Americas. While the topic veered wildly, it did manage to cover the basic topic of the evening, which was international relations and development of Central and South America. Governor Dukakis was a speaker of great entertainment. He held our attention with great stories and clever turns of phrase. But his basic policy prescriptions were totally uncreative: more aid, more multilateralism, more summits, more international governing bodies, higher minimum wages, and higher labor and environmental standards for our trading partners as solution to the hemisphere's problems. His solution to the immigration problem was something new: greater minimum wages and stricter enforcement of labor laws in general to destroy the demand side of the illegal labor. As a pair that certainly won't work, but he's probably right money spent on checking citizenship information at workplaces is money far better spent than on fences.
All and all, he was good for an evening's entertainment but I'm glad that Bush Senior beat the man.
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 16, 2007 11:39 AM
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