Border Security: What We NEED To Do About Immigration - Learn Liberty

                    



The Learn Liberty YouTube provides some effective and very insightful information on issues ranging from freedom of speech to political science realities like agenda setting and voter trends.

On immigration, however, I find that the discussion sparks more outrage than insight. The most ardent and outspoken participants in these videos want open borders. The libertarian speaker talks about moral responsibilities, shame, and guilt trips. How strange, indeed, that his push for open borders has no real economic or numbers-based facts. Prof. Ting, however, references scarcity, natural resource concerns, the true power of free markets, but also recognizes national and ethnic realities as well as cultural conditions.

Ting was spot-on with his arguments about stopping open borders and rampant illegal immigration. Check them out and feel free to share this video.

Public Choice Theory: Why Government Often Fails (Great Video)

               

This video outlines how choices and game theory play out among humans, whether they operate in the public sector or the private sector.

One finds in this comprehensive video why even the most well-intentioned reformers find that little good comes out of giving the government more control over key industries and services in a community.

Human beings are motivated by choices and incentives. The actions and decisions of lawmakers, elected officials, bureaucrats, and voters are many times motivated by a cost-benefits analysis.

Voting is a more costly exercise than most people realize. Working as a bureaucrat will deliver types of service compared to someone in the private sector. Find out what this matters, and what it matters specifically when it comes to politics and government.