John Podhoretz, asshole… I used to think that anti-Jewish slurs were in poor taste, however when it comes to John Podhoretz I can start to rethink their merits.

Let me see if I have the logic straight here. If we imported fewer immigrants, we would have to pay those who perform manual labor more money because there would be fewer takers for the jobs. Fine. So when costs at hotels and restaurants rise stratospherically to take account of the increase in labor costs, Mark Krikorian and all his e-mailers will surely be delighted to pay those new prices. For if they don't, you see, then the restaurants and hotels will cut back their staffs, causing Mark and his e-mailers to receive poorer service at still-high prices.

Jesus Christ, you are one cheap Jew, JPod.  A few bucks more per hour for your bellhop is going to cripple the service economy?  Market forces are okay when they reward you and your horrific "friends", but some waiter who has to listen to the words slough out of your throat as you belch your commands?  He'll have to settle for the standard of living of rural Mexico.  Hey, one room apartments aren't that expensive.  When you go out for a night on the town, JPod, do you take a roll of quarters with you for tip money?

To people like JPod, the problems of farm workers don't amount to the price of beans in this crazy world.  They're just fodder for his comfortable lifestyle.  If you have to exploit illegal labor in order to get an affordable nanny (off the books and uninsured it goes without saying), well that's just how it has to be, and anyhow the barrio is a long ways away from your townhouse, and it's going to stay that way, see?

For all the problems with mass immigration from Mexico – a blackmarket economy, forged and stolen document trafficking, assimilation failure, an eroding tax base, greater demand for public services, disruptive effects on manual labor markets, increased crime – all JPod can think about is how cheaply he can get servants to wait on him.

Of course it's obvious to any normal human being that analysis of public policy must extend beyond its impact on the discretionary spending of undeservedly wealthy fat fucks – but then it's also obvious that labor costs are like any other cost, and they get spread out among hundreds or thousands or millions of consumers.  JPod can't even begin to mount an argument on this or any other subject, and it remains a great mystery how anyone can stand to be around him without strangling him to death.