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Editorial: Lou Dobbs "American Hypocrite" or "Luminary"

Horse grooming and landscaping are two service industries that cater to the extremely wealthy and upper-middle class Americans.

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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.

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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