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___ Increasing Immigration Triggers extinction via American overpopulation and consumption.
Leon Kolankiewicz 10 , environmental scientist and national natural resources planner; B.S. in forestry and wildlife management from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in environmental planning and natural resources management from the University of British Columbia, From Big to Bigger: How Mass Immigration and Population Growth Have Exacerbated America’s Ecological Footprint, Policy Brief #10-1, March 2010, [] ]

What bearing do these “inconvenient truths” AND civilization as we know it may unravel .[|44]

___ India is pushing reform of its higher education system to improve both the quality and access of its education. Resources will be critical to success.
Global Post 1-17- 11 [Hanna Ingber Win, Higher education: India's own Ivy League? http://www.globalpost.com/print/5610638]

In an effort to boost the country’s presence AND to graduate from elite schools, Wankhede said.

___ The plan results in a reduction in education resources for sending nations
Bertoli, et. al, fellow at the University of Florence,  ‘9 [Simone, PhD in Development Economics from the University of Florence in 2007, Herbert Brücker, Head, Department for International Comparisons and European Integration, Institute for Employment Research, Giovanni Facchini, Ph.D. in economics from Stanford, Anna Maria Mayda, Associate Professor School of Foreign Service and Department of Economics Georgetown University, and Giovanni Peri, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, “The Battle for Brains: How to Attract Talent,” pg 129-130, http://www.frdb.org/upload/file/Conferenza%20fRDB%202009%20-%20Pisa%20/Report%20Bruecker%20et%20al.pdf]

At the present stage, the efforts of  AND from an increased international mobility of talented labour.

___ Impact is Economic Collapse, Democratic stagnation, and War.
The Times of India 12-22-  10 [The economics of education, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/The-economics-of-education/articleshow/7142085.cms]

India is poised on the edge of a   AND lack of development and most importantly, education.

___ Definition - a substantial increase in the number of visas is 50,000
Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director, ‘  98 [Mark, National Review, Sept, http://www.cis.org/GuestWorkerSlaveTrade]

A bill to substantially increase the number of AND new foreign workers two months before an election?"

1 – NEG Ground – 50 is best to generate negative links.
===2 – Limits – Our interpretation is critical to prevent AFFs from running to the corner of the topic and increasing a small class of visas that address a particular occupation without substantially impacting the overall number of visas===

___ SKFTA will pass – momentum is growing
The Hill 2/14 (Pete Kasperowicz, 2/14/11, " Industry confident White House will send pending trade deals to Congress soon ", [], ellipses original)

" There is ... increasingly a sense of AND to approve legislation for all three by July.

___ Expanding work visas ignites a political firestorm
Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  09 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

Regulating the future  flow of employment-based AND resulting tension shapes the politics of immigration policy.

1. Political Capital is key to ratification.
McLarty, chief of staff to President Clinton in 1993,  and Cunningham  , aide to President Clinton and to then-Sen. Joseph Biden, 1-24  -11 [WSJ, Obama's Free Trade Opportunity, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090290103169526.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]

What now? Our experience tells us that AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and sometimes tortuous <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">negotiations with  members of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Congress.

2. SKFTA is key to the economy, US-Korea relations, and Hegemony
Knowledge@Wharton 1-12- 11 [U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/printer_friendly.cfm?articleid=2671]

Now it seems as if the pessimists may <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">President has put his reputation on the line."

___ SKFTA key to Asian stability
Hill, 07 – Assistant Secretary for Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Christopher, 6/13. “The United States-South Korea FTA: The Foreign Policy Implications.” http://seoul.usembassy.gov/413_061407.html)

While the agreement achieves many of our economic AND that we’ve neglected this part of the world.

___ Korean War Goes Nuclear.__
__ Hayes and Green, 10  - *Victoria University AND **Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute (Peter and Michael, “-“The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1/5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf) __

The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">consequences of failing to address __ the proliferation AND that warrants priority consideration from the international community.

___ Asian Instability Causes Nuclear war__
__ Dibb, 01  – emeritus professor of strategic and defence studies at The Australian National University (Paul, Winter. “Strategic Trends: Asia at a Crossroads.” Naval War College Review, Vol. 54, Issue 1. Ebsco.) __

The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">areas of maximum danger and instability in __ AND to be ineffective when confronted with major crises.

Prizes
===Text: The United States Federal Government should establish annual prizes for the best technological innovations in the areas of information, climate, and military technologies. The National Science Foundation and Department of Defense should each be given authority to award up to fifty million dollars in ten million dollar prizes for the most successful research over a five year period. Each prize recipient should be honored at an awards ceremony hosted by the President of the United States. Funding should be reallocated from the NASA space operations budget.===

___ Prizes solve innovation – they get the best and the brightest to act
Charlton, Newcastle University Medical Hypotheses Editor-in-Chief,  and Andras  , Newcastle Editorial Advisory Board Member, ‘  8 [Bruce G. and Peter, Medical Hypotheses - Volume 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 709-713, “Stimulating revolutionary science with mega-cash prizes”, 3-5, []]

In conclusion, we suggest that <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">revolutionary science AND delayed, or they <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">may never be solved.

Accreditation CP
===Text: The United States federal government should exempt workers with advanced degrees from an ABET, inc. accredited university with degrees in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from the employment-based quota===

Plan Triggers Diploma Mills – Accreditation solves
All 5/3/  10 (Ann All covered a variety of business topics as a newspaper reporter before switching to automated teller machines as the editor of online trade publication ATMmarketplace.com [])

I've long supported the idea of easing the AND as <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

Turns case – Degree mills undermine US competitiveness
Atkinson 3 (Education and Qualifications Qualifications BA (Hons) Leeds University - English Dissertation: William Blake and the Romantic Imagination MA Liverpool University - Literature of the Victorian Period Dissertation: William Morris and Walter Pater - the limits of the Romantic Movement in the late Nineteenth Century MBA London University - International Management Dissertation: The Competitive Advantage of British Professional Qualifications on the World Education Market PGCE Leeds University - post-compulsory education Dip Comp (OU) Open University - Diploma in Computing [])

In a later NAFSA document of June, AND its <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">advantages in the provision of further <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">education.

Bandwidth capacity up 553 percent
Gilder, member of the board of directors of Wave Systems Corp, chairman of that company’s executive committee, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle,  2/14 ([])

Well, we sure did. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The irony AND . You could plan these great new technologies.

Bandwidth solved now
E E Herald, 2/14 [[] ]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WLAN Semiconductor's fast <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">growth driven by bandwidth innovation AND Fi automotive shipments will reach nearly 20 million.

SQ solves innovation – multiple reasons
Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Arms Control Analyst, China Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (1999-2001); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2001), ellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1998-99); L.T. Lam Fellowship for South China Research, Cornell University (1996, 1998); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Security (1996-97); C.V. Starr Fellowship, Cornell University (Spring 1996); Mellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1995-96); Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell University (Summer 1995); Sage Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (1993-94); Austin Barclay Fellowship for Academic Excellence, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1992),  11 (Adam, //Advantage: How American Innovation can overcome the Asian challenge//. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 16-7)

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Big companies such as Microsoft, Freescale Semiconductor <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to scientific research and innovation in American <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">history.

U.S. innovation inevitable – international ties
Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Arms Control Analyst, China Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (1999-2001); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2001), ellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1998-99); L.T. Lam Fellowship for South China Research, Cornell University (1996, 1998); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Security (1996-97); C.V. Starr Fellowship, Cornell University (Spring 1996); Mellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1995-96); Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell University (Summer 1995); Sage Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (1993-94); Austin Barclay Fellowship for Academic Excellence, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1992),  11 (Adam, //Advantage: How American Innovation can overcome the Asian challenge//. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 247) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The U <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">nited <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">S  <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">tates <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">spends more on r esearch <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and AND distribution, and use of science and technology.

Stem workers will increase 19% by 2018
Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a  nd Mayo  , founder of Mayo Enterprises,  10 (Robert and Merrilea, “Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to STEM,” [])

Another way to assess whether there is a AND of growth in the biotechnology and environmental industries.

___ No impact - Decline doesn’t translate; we’ll still be competitive
Plastics News 7-5 -10 [Mike Verespej, lexis]

The manufacturing <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">competitiveness of the United States , <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">very formidable and very <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">competitive  ," he said.

___ No solvency – can’t get the jobs and solvency is long-term
Boston Globe ‘9 [Bryan Bender, 6-13, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/06/13/pentagon_fears_technology_edge_may_be_eroding?mode=PF]

"The research is rather unique," said AND engineers could be well into their civilian careers.

___ Immigrants will be employed in jobs that waste their potential.
Castelletti et al, economist at the OECD Development Centre, ‘  10 [Barbara, Jeff Dayton-Johnson, head of the OECD development Centre, and Ángel Melguizo, economist at the OECD Development Centre, “Migration in Latin America: Answering old questions with new data,” 3/19/2010, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4764]

Most research on migration assumes that workers are AND foreign qualifications or excessive requalification requirements for foreigners.

___ Turn --- bubble growth --- plan masks structural economic weakness --- makes collapse inevitable
Chopra 10 (Aneesh, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology – Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, “Innovation in America: Opportunities and Obstacles”, Congressional Documents and Publications, 6-22, Lexis)

Problems with the Bubble-Driven Growth of AND prosperity – were ignored during the last bubble.

___No solvency turn – International labor shortage – Forcing governments and biz to get smart/innovative
Financial Post, 1-24 [Ray Williams is President of [|Ray Williams Associates], Why we need aging workers”, []]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The rapidly aging global workforce — caused mainly <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">valuable human resource in the decades to come.

Innovate America Act coming now – solves case
Echo Press, 2/5 (Bipartisan bill would spur innovation, competitiveness, say authors, [])

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar ( AND --Eliminate bonuses for poor performance by government contractors

___ Plan can’t solve – people will still go home
Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Arms Control Analyst, China Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (1999-2001); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2001), ellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1998-99); L.T. Lam Fellowship for South China Research, Cornell University (1996, 1998); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Security (1996-97); C.V. Starr Fellowship, Cornell University (Spring 1996); Mellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1995-96); Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell University (Summer 1995); Sage Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (1993-94); Austin Barclay Fellowship for Academic Excellence, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1992),  11 (Adam, //Advantage: How American Innovation can overcome the Asian challenge//. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 189)

Similarly, internships and cooperative research will also AND and technology networks of this new global world.

Deemed Export controls prevent visa holders from innovating military tech.
Deemed Export Advisory Committee, ‘07 [“The Deemed Export Rule in the Era of Globalization,” 12/20, http://tac.bis.doc.gov/2007/deacreport.pdf]

In its simplest context, __a “Deemed__ AND understand these deficiencies as threats to national security.”

Data shows no anthropogenic warming, and no impact to warming.
Sally C. __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pipes __, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, National Advisory Board of the Capital Research Center, __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and __ Benjamin __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zycher __ , senior fellow in economics **__<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">at the Pacific Research Institute __** , Cato adjunct scholar, Claremont Institute adjunct fellow, PhD in Economics from UCLA, December <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20__<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">03 __ , Pacific Research Institute Study, “Attorneys General Versus The EPA,” http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/enviro/CO2-Study-12-03.pdf __In 2001, more than <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">17,000 __ __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND __ __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #d3d3d3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the attendant <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">magnitude is obscure __ as well.

U.S. not key – uniploarity dead
Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Arms Control Analyst, China Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (1999-2001); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2001), ellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1998-99); L.T. Lam Fellowship for South China Research, Cornell University (1996, 1998); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Security (1996-97); C.V. Starr Fellowship, Cornell University (Spring 1996); Mellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1995-96); Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell University (Summer 1995); Sage Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (1993-94); Austin Barclay Fellowship for Academic Excellence, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1992),  11 (Adam, //Advantage: How American Innovation can overcome the Asian challenge//. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 14-15)

Still, the United States cannot sit idly <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">all signs of the limits of American influence.

No unipolarity now
Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Arms Control Analyst, China Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (1999-2001); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-2001), ellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1998-99); L.T. Lam Fellowship for South China Research, Cornell University (1996, 1998); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Security (1996-97); C.V. Starr Fellowship, Cornell University (Spring 1996); Mellon Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University (1995-96); Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell University (Summer 1995); Sage Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (1993-94); Austin Barclay Fellowship for Academic Excellence, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1992),  11 (Adam, //Advantage: How American Innovation can overcome the Asian challenge//. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 15-6)

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Limits does not mean, however, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">nited <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">S  <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">tates <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to the rest of the world.

Heg fails – it’s ineffective at maintaining U.S. interests
Layne, 06 [Associate Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and Research Fellow with the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute, (Christopher, Financial Times" America cannot rely on power alone," August 24th, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f7bb5fb2-330c-11db-87ac-0000779e2340.html]

Hegemony, however, is not omnipotence. AND a simplistic Manichean __ struggle between good and evil. __

___ No impact to the transition – international order accommodates rising powers
Ikenberry, 08 [professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University (John, The Rise of China and the Future of the West Can the Liberal System Survive?, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Some observers <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">believe  that <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the American era is    AND -- if managed properly -- will live on.

=Poltiics=

___ SKFTA is at the top of the agenda.
WSJ 1-25 (Tom Barkley & Corey Boles, 1/25/11, "Obama to Urge Congress to Ratify South Korea Trade Pact", [])

President Barack Obama will urge Congress  on Tuesday AND , something he is expected to  do  shortly.

Link – Plan saps capital
RODRIGUEZ in 10 [Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, Henry E. Stimson Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cristina M., ARTICLE: FORTIETH ANNUAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ISSUE: IMMIGRATION LAW AND ADJUDICATION: CONSTRAINT THROUGH DELEGATION: THE CASE OF EXECUTIVE CONTROL OVER IMMIGRATION POLICY, Duke Law Journal, 59 Duke L.J. 1787, May]

Congress, which  consists of hundreds of members AND and not conducive to the formation of consensus.

1. Obama’s Capital is crucial to Fast, Easy KORUS Ratification
Knowledge@Wharton 1-12- 11 [U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/printer_friendly.cfm?articleid=2671]

With Portman now in the Senate and other AND anti-trade Democrats and Tea Party Republicans.

2. SKFTA is key to the economy, trade, US-Korea relations, and hegemony
Knowledge@Wharton 1-12- 11 [U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/printer_friendly.cfm?articleid=2671]

Now it seems as if the pessimists may AND President has put his reputation on the line."

Relations Prevent North Korean aggression.
Pritchard et al, 09 – President of the Korea Economic Institute (Charles L, 6/16. With John H. Tilelli Jr., Chairman and CEO, Cypress International, and Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, CFR. “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea Alliance.” Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html)

While all eyes have been trained on North AND persuade China to put pressure on North Korea.

___ Korean War Goes Nuclear.__
__ Hayes and Green, 10  - *Victoria University AND **Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute (Peter and Michael, “-“The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1/5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf) __

The consequences of failing to address  __ the proliferation AND that warrants priority consideration from the international community.

Hegemony prevents global nuclear war.
Kagan, Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, 07 (Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, 9-07, “End of Dreams, Return of History,” Stanford University Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html)

Were the U nited  S  tates  to diminish its influence AND end conflict but would simply change the equation.

Cap
===___ Capitalism has pushed us to the brink of the apocalypse and will inevitably collapse, We can continue with status quo measures, ala the plan, that try to prop the system up…or…we can reject the system and mechanisms such as the plan.=== Zizek in 10 [Slavoj, Living in the End Times, p. x-xv]

The underlying premise of the present book is  AND we usually  pay   for survival   is our lives.

___ The plan defuses opposition to Capital.
Zizek, ‘8 [Slavoj, In Defense of Lost Causes, p 266-7]

One is used to hearing complaints about the AND … [elipses is original end to paragraph]

Impact – Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly, 04 [Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16]

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut AND a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

Withdrawal destroys the fetish that allows capital to survive.
[Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259, infotrac]
 * Johnston__,__** interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, **‘4**

Perhaps the absence of a detailed political  roadmap AND are convinced that they already have ceased believing).

EMP them Cp

**Text: The USFG should immediately engage in a nuclear EMP attack on China, Iran, and Russia**

 * Solvency and Net Benefits:**

**1.** **Doesn’t link to politics.**

**2.** S**ovles case and avoids H-1b turns**

3. Russian, China and Iran are preparing to EMP the U.S. – only preemption solves Kessler, chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com,  09 (Ronald, Rep. Bartlett: EMP Attack Would Wipe Out U.S. Military, 28 Sep 2009, [])

As for the military, “At each hearing when it was appropriate, I would ask the admiral or the general how much of your war-fighting capability remains after a robust EMP laydown,” Bartlett says. “Invariably they would turn to their aides behind them to see if they could get an answer — we’ll get back to you on the record for that — because they didn’t know.” Yet, says [Representative] Bartlett, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian military war plans envision an EMP attack on the U.S. While the Defense Department agreed with the recommendations of the 2008 EMP commission report that it should take EMP into account, no change has actually occurred in how DOD procures weapons systems and equipment, experts say. “A tramp steamer with a SCUD launcher, which they can buy for $100,000, and any crude nuclear weapon shuts down all of New England or all of California,” Bartlett says. “It could be done by a terrorist. It will not be launched from anybody’s soil. These people are evil, but they aren’t idiots.”

Infrastructure collapse would cascade into complete destruction of the U.S.

Gaffney, Founder and president of the Center for Security Policy,  Representative Weldon, and Representative Bartlett, 06 (Frank J, Curt, and Roscoe, "Counter the Mega-Threat: EMP Attack" From //War Footing,// P. 100-112)

The consequences of an EMP attack would of course be far more significant today, with so much of our infrastructure (civilian as well as military) dependent on electricity and electronics. The EMP Threat Commission estimated that it could take "months to years" to fully restore critical infrastructures after an EMP attack: Depending on the specific characteristics of the attacks, unprecedented cascading failures of our major infrastructures could result. In that event, a regional or national recovery would be long and difficult and would seriously degrade the safety and overall viability of our nation. The primary avenues for catastrophic damage to the nation are through our electric power infrastructure and thence into our telecommunications, energy, and other infrastructures. These, in turn, can seriously impact other important aspects of our nation's life, including the financial system; means of getting food, water, and medical care to the citizenry; trade; and production of goods and services. The recovery of any one of the key national infrastructures is dependent on the recovery of others. The longer the outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery will be. It is possible for the functional outages to become mutually reinforcing until at some point the degradation of infrastructure could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support its population. [Emphasis added.]

=EPA Politics 1nc=

1NC
===_ __Incoming Congress is set on weakening the EPA. Obama’s political capital is critical to staving off a funding collapse.__=== __ Cohen , Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University,  12-28  -10__ __[Steven, Defending EPA Against the Coming Right Wing Attack, []]__

__ I am not alone in my concern about the attack that is coming. On December 24 the New York Times lead editorial was entitled: "A Coming Assault on the EPA." That editorial predicted that: Republicans  in the next Congress  are  obviously  set on limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's authority  under the Clean Air Act  to regulate  a wide range of  air pollutants  -- even if it means  denying  the agency  money to run  its  programs  and chaining its administrator, Lisa Jackson, to the witness stand. I don't see the symbolic posturing or preening Representatives as a threat to the EPA, but the cynical right wing strategy of "starving the beast" by cutting funding could pose a grave threat  to this chronically underfunded agency. EPA is a very decentralized and relatively small federal agency. Throughout the anti-environmental Bush years, EPA was starved financially. When Bush came into office in 2001 EPA's annual budget was about $8 billion and by the time he left it had declined to about $7.5 billion. These data are not presented in constant dollars, and so the purchasing power of EPA's budget declined substantially during the Bush years. EPA had a staff of about 18,000 when Bush arrived at the White House, by the time he left it had declined to about 17,200. Most of EPA's staff is not in Washington but in the ten regional offices around the nation that work closely with state and municipal governments to manage our environment. Under President Obama, the EPA's resource picture has been improving. The agency's budget is finally over $10 billion, and the staff size is gradually approaching 18,000 again. Since funding bills must begin in the now  Republican  controlled  House  of Representatives, the threat to EPA's funding is real. President Obama will need to use his political capital to defend the EPA's budget. Ten billion dollars may be a lot of money, but not when compared to the entire federal budget. In the military budget it would be a rounding error. While defending EPA will be good politics, it is even better public policy. America is learning that sustainable economic development requires  the  protection of our ecosphere. Polluting the planet poisons our water, air and food and impairs human health and well being. We have already spent hundreds of billions of public and private dollars on toxic waste clean up. The Chinese government will soon be learning the same lesson as it pays the costs of its rapid economic expansion. BP learned that lesson last summer in the Gulf of Mexico. A well-funded EPA can help us  manage the environment and ensure  that the  benefits of  our economic  growth outweigh  the  costs. An underfunded EPA is asking for more disasters like the massive oil spill in the Gulf. The cause of that catastrophe was under-regulation. Do we really want to incur similar risks throughout our economy? The President should begin to make clear his support for EPA's work and its need for resources. __

===__H1B Visa legislation drains capital – committees, political controversy and labor union lobbying__=== __ Overby, ‘9  __ __[Stephanie, award-winning reporter and writer with fifteen years of professional journalism experience, CIO.com, 8/18, []]__

__ That old Schoolhouse Rock song was right: It is a long journey to the capital city and a long, long wait, sitting in committee. (Indeed, the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009 is currently in committee .) But unlike the optimistic Saturday morning cartoon jingle, most bills never make it past that point. The last bill solely focused on H-1B and L-1 visas to break through was the L-1 Visa and H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004, which President George W. Bush signed into law. It raised application fees, required employees to pay H-1B workers 100 percent of the prevailing wage, and effectively increased the number of visas awarded annually by exempting from the cap an additional 20,000 H-1B petitions for foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. institutions. Among those bills that didn't survive were the USA Jobs Protection Act of 2003 from former Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.); the Bill to Abolish H-1B, introduced by former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.); the Defend the American Dream Act put forth by Rep. Bill Pascrell (R-N.J.); and Grassley and Durbin's previous attempt at H-1B visa reform, the H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007, which never made it out of committee during the last Congressional session. So what are the chances that this bill will become law? Durbin and Grassley both  sit on the  Senate  Immigration Subcommittee, which means  the bipartisan tag team should have  more influence on how the legislation proceeds than Dodd and Johnson did, says Ron Hira, associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and co-author of the book Outsourcing America. Still, few expect  the  H-1B  and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009 to proceed as a  standalone  bill. It is likely to be incorporated into larger immigration legislation. Like it or not, lobbying works. Representatives from both the supply and demand side of the IT outsourcing community publicly support efforts to reduce fraud in the system. Privately, however, they're pressuring lawmakers to reduce the scope of the legislation. "There is likely to be continued opposition in the business community to some of the provisions of the bill, which add more roadblocks into the H-1B process," says Allen Erenbaum, a partner in the Los Angeles office of law firm Mayer Brown. As a result, says Elizabeth Espin Stern, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of law firm Baker and McKenzie, "we do not expect the bill to proceed separately from overall, comprehensive immigration reform." Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, announced his intention to introduce immigration reform later this year. Onlookers expect Grassley and Durbin to tack the components of the bill (or something like it) to that broader legislation. And don't be surprised if some of the original bill's more hard line measures—like the 50/50 rule—get watered down or edited out entirely, says Shalabh Garg, director of offshore outsourcing consultancy neoIT. There's just one colossal caveat: A legislative agenda packed with such thorny issues as healthcare, climate change, and regulation of the financial system may delay immigration reform efforts. " With the ongoing political controversy about the topic—since that type of reform would have to address the 11 to 18 million undocumented workers in the country— we do not expect to see passage of the bill anytime soon ," says Stern. It isn't the only effort to reduce H-1B and L-1 visa fraud. Most recently, the economic stimulus bill introduced H-1B visa restrictions for companies that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). What's more, some companies that sponsor foreign-born professionals for H-1B and L-1 visas are already reporting more scrutiny in the visa application process. "We have seen an increase, particularly among IT companies, for [information such as] proof of work availability for the full three-year period of the petition and attestations from outside parties (such as clients) that the company employs true workers in professional specialties," says Stern. She notes that such requests are thus far the exception rather than the rule. "Proof of the nature of the job duties is more frequently requested." U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), which administers the H-1B and L-1 visa programs, has beefed up its anti-fraud auditing efforts recently with surprise site visits to companies that employ temporary non-immigrant visa holders. The unannounced audits come on the heels of a study conducted by the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security, which estimates that more than one-fifth of H-1B petitions violate program rules. Offenses range from technical violations to outright fraud. However, unlike the rules set forth by the Grassley-Durbin bill, compliance with USCIS's worksite investigations—while advisable—is not mandatory. It is a sign that the H-1B and L-1 visa programs are here to stay. The H-1B visa program remains a hot button issue with some  very vocal critics , among them  IT labor unions  like Alliance@IBM,  lobbying groups  such as Bright Future Jobs,  and individuals  including RIT's Hira and University of California at Davis computer science professor Norm Matloff. They argue  that the  non-immigrant visa programs injure the U.S.  IT  workforce. Although the reform bill addresses some complaints about visa administration and regulation, it is actually a clear signal that H-1Bs and L-1s will remain an option for U.S. employers for the foreseeable future. The annual limit on H-1Bs awarded has been lowered from a high of 195,000 in 2003 to 65,000 (not counting the 20,000 additional set aside for advanced degree holders), but the reform bill indicates that middle-ground seeking legislators may be willing to raise the  annual  cap  on such visas  if  the proposed  changes  to the visa programs  pass. __

_ Pollution causes extinction

 * Coyne and Hoekstra, 07 -** *professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago AND **Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University (Jerry and Hopi, The New Republic, “The Greatest Dying,” 9/24, [])**


 * Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all of which severely pruned life's diversity. Scientists agree that we're now in the midst of a sixth such episode. This new one, however, is different - and, in many ways, much worse. For, unlike earlier extinctions, this one results from the work of a single species, Homo sapiens.We are relentlessly taking over the planet, laying it to waste and eliminating most of our fellow species. Moreover, we're doing it much faster than the mass extinctions that came before. __ Every year  __, up to __  30,000 species disappear due to human activity  __ alone. At this rate, we could lose half of Earth's species in this century. And, __  unlike with previous extinctions, there's no hope  __ that __  biodiversity will ever recover  ,__ since the cause of the decimation - us - is here to stay. To scientists, this is an unparalleled calamity, far more severe than global warming, which is, after all, only one of many threats to biodiversity. Yet global warming gets far more press. Why? One reason is that, while the increase in temperature is easy to document, the decrease of species is not. Biologists don't know, for example, exactly how many species exist on Earth. Estimates range widely, from three million to more than 50 million, and that doesn't count microbes, critical (albeit invisible) components of ecosystems. We're not certain about the rate of extinction, either; how could we be, since the vast majority of species have yet to be described? We're even less sure how the loss of some species will affect the ecosystems in which they're embedded, since the intricate connection between organisms means that the loss of a single species can ramify unpredictably. But we do know some things. Tropical rainforests are disappearing at a rate of 2 percent per year. Populations of most large fish are down to only 10 percent of what they were in 1950. Many primates and all the great apes - our closest relatives - are nearly gone from the wild. And we know that extinction and global warming act synergistically. Extinction exacerbates global warming: By burning rainforests, we're not only polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas) but destroying the very plants that can remove this gas from the air. Conversely, global warming increases extinction, both directly (killing corals) and indirectly (destroying the habitats of Arctic and Antarctic animals). As extinction increases, then, so does global warming, which in turn causes more extinction - and so on, into a downward spiral of destruction. Why, exactly, should we care? Let's start with the most celebrated case: the rainforests. Their loss will worsen global warming - raising temperatures, melting icecaps, and flooding coastal cities. And, as the forest habitat shrinks, so begins the inevitable contact between organisms that have not evolved together, a scenario played out many times, and one that is never good. Dreadful diseases have successfully jumped species boundaries, with humans as prime recipients. We have gotten aids from apes, sars from civets, and Ebola from fruit bats. Additional worldwide plagues from unknown microbes are a very real possibility. But it isn't just the destruction of the rainforests that should trouble us. Healthy __  ecosystems  __ the world over __  provide  __ hidden services like waste disposal, nutrient cycling, soil formation, __  water purification, and oxygen  __ production. Such services are best rendered by ecosystems that are diverse. Yet, through both intention and accident, humans have introduced exotic species that turn biodiversity into monoculture. Fast-growing zebra mussels, for example, have outcompeted more than 15 species of native mussels in North America's Great Lakes and have damaged harbors and water-treatment plants. Native prairies are becoming dominated by single species (often genetically homogenous) of corn or wheat. Thanks to these developments, soils will erode and become unproductive - which, along with temperature change, will diminish agricultural yields. Meanwhile,  with increased pollution  and runoff, as well as reduced forest cover, ecosystems will no longer be able to purify water; and a shortage of clean water spells disaster. In many ways, oceans are the most vulnerable areas of all. As overfishing eliminates major predators, while polluted and warming waters kill off phytoplankton, the intricate aquatic food web could collapse from both sides. Fish, on which so many humans depend, will be a fond memory. As phytoplankton vanish, so does the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. (Half of the oxygen we breathe is made by phytoplankton, with the rest coming from land plants.) Species extinction is also imperiling coral reefs - a major problem since these reefs have far more than recreational value: They provide tremendous amounts of food for human populations and buffer coastlines against erosion. In fact, the global value of "hidden" services provided by ecosystems - those services, like waste disposal, that aren't bought and sold in the marketplace - has been estimated to be as much as $50 trillion per year, roughly equal to the gross domestic product of all countries combined. And that doesn't include tangible goods like fish and timber.  Life as we know it would be impossible  if ecosystems collapsed. Yet that is where we're heading if species extinction continues at its current pace. Extinction also has a huge impact on medicine. Who really cares if, say, a worm in the remote swamps of French Guiana goes extinct? Well, those who suffer from cardiovascular disease. The recent discovery of a rare South American leech has led to the isolation of a powerful enzyme that, unlike other anticoagulants, not only prevents blood from clotting but also dissolves existing clots. And it's not just this one species of worm: Its wriggly relatives have evolved other biomedically valuable proteins, including antistatin (a potential anticancer agent), decorsin and ornatin (platelet aggregation inhibitors), and hirudin (another anticoagulant). Plants, too, are pharmaceutical gold mines. The bark of trees, for example, has given us quinine (the first cure for malaria), taxol (a drug highly effective against ovarian and breast cancer), and aspirin. More than a quarter of the medicines on our pharmacy shelves were originally derived from plants. The sap of the Madagascar periwinkle contains more than 70 useful alkaloids, including vincristine, a powerful anticancer drug that saved the life of one of our friends. Of the roughly 250,000 plant species on Earth, fewer than 5 percent have been screened for pharmaceutical properties. Who knows what life-saving drugs remain to be discovered? Given current extinction rates, it's estimated that we're losing one valuable drug every two years. Our arguments so far have tacitly assumed that species are worth saving only in proportion to their economic value and their effects on our quality of life, an attitude that is strongly ingrained, especially in Americans. That is why conservationists always base their case on an economic calculus. But we biologists know in our hearts that there are deeper and equally compelling reasons to worry about the loss of biodiversity: namely, simple morality and intellectual values that transcend pecuniary interests. What, for example, gives us the right to destroy other creatures? And what could be more thrilling than looking around us, seeing that we are surrounded by our evolutionary cousins, and realizing that we all got here by the same simple process of natural selection? To biologists, and potentially everyone else, apprehending the genetic kinship and common origin of all species is a spiritual experience - not necessarily religious, but spiritual nonetheless, for it stirs the soul. But, whether or not one is moved by such concerns, it is certain that our future is bleak if we do nothing to stem this sixth extinction __.  We are creating a world in which exotic diseases flourish  __ but natural medicinal cures are lost; a world in which carbon waste accumulates  while food sources dwindle  __ ; __ a world of sweltering heat, failing crops, and impure water. In the end, we must accept the possibility that we ourselves are not immune to extinction. Or, if we survive, perhaps only a few of us will remain, scratching out a grubby existence on a devastated planet. Global warming will seem like a secondary problem when humanity finally faces the consequences of what we have done to nature: not just another Great Dying, but perhaps the greatest dying of them all. **

=**Currency DA**=
 * Uniqueness and Internal – Obama has delayed the currency report which buys the US and China time to resolve the dispute thru diplomacy**


 * AP 10-16-10**


 * [Administration Delays China Currency Report, []]**


 * The Obama administration announced Friday it will delay**


 * AND**


 * elections — without labeling Beijing a currency manipulator.**


 * Link – Increased immigration fuels protectionism**


 * Gokhale, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, ‘10**


 * [Jagadeesh, Globalization: Curse or Cure? Policies to Harness Global Economic Integration to Solve Our Economic Challenge, Feb 1, [], access 5-25]**


 * Intensifying foreign competition and employment uncertainty could provoke**


 * AND**


 * public welfare costs, and reducing social cohesion.**


 * Impact – Currency bashing sparks a global trade war and conflict**


 * Grey, frequent contributor to the Centre for Research on Globalization’s Global Research, 10-1-10**


 * [Barry, US House Passes Anti-China Trade War Billhttp:www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21252]**


 * If passed by the Senate and signed into**


 * AND**


 * tensions that ultimately erupted in World War II.**

=**Cap 1NC**=


 * _ Capitalism has pushed us to the brink of the apocalypse. We can continue with status quo measures, ala the plan, that try to prop the system up…or…we can reject the system and mechanisms such as the plan**


 * Zizek ’10**


 * [Slavoj, Living in the End Times, p. x-xv]**


 * The underlying premise of the present book is**


 * AND**


 * we usually pay for survival is our lives.**


 * _ And, here’s the specific link – the plan is a way of defusing opposition to Capital.**


 * Zizek, ‘8**


 * [Slavoj, In Defense of Lost Causes, p 266-7]**


 * One is used to hearing complaints about the**


 * AND**


 * … [elipses is original end to paragraph]**


 * _ Impact – Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale**


 * Zizek and Daly, 04**


 * [Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16]**


 * For Zizek it is imperative that we cut**


 * AND**


 * a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.**


 * Other alt**


 * The Alt - Completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive**


 * Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, ‘4**


 * [Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259, infotrac]**


 * Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap**


 * AND**


 * fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism’’).**

=**Open Immigration CP**=

**1NC**

 * Counterplan: The United States Federal Government should adopt a policy of open immigration. Immigrants should be excluded from social spending taxation and social spending benefits.**


 * Observation I: Not Topical – The counterplan eliminates visas instead of increasing them.**


 * Observation II: Net-benefits – Solves the AFF harms and avoids the “visas bad” arguments**


 * Observation III: Solvency**


 * _ Eliminating the visa regime solves the immigration need**


 * Tracinski, senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute, ‘99**


 * [Robert, “Opposition to Immigration is Un-American”, []]**


 * Perhaps, as Clinton maintains, domestic workers**


 * AND**


 * . Anything less would be un-American.**


 * _ The counterplan solves.**


 * Reisman, Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘98**


 * [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, []]**


 * We need to make a beginning toward the**


 * AND**


 * group opposed to the welfare state for anyone.**


 * _ The plan stands against capitalism. Eligibility to be here is not rooted in government say-so.**


 * Reisman, Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘98**


 * [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, []]**


 * The philosophy of individual rights and capitalism implies**


 * AND**


 * a gun or club to impose his will.**


 * _ Each invasion of freedom must be rejected**


 * Petro, professor of law at Wake Forest, ‘74**


 * [Sylvester, TOLEDO LAW REVIEW, Spring, p. 480.]**


 * However, one may still insist, echoing**


 * AND**


 * be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.**

=1NC Commission CP=

Text: The United States Congress should establish an independent agency empowered to submit to Congress annual recommendations for adjustments to levels, composition and eligibility requirements for visas. Upon submission of a recommendation, Congress will have 90 days to reject the commission’s recommendations by passing legislation maintaining existing legislative baselines. The Standing Commission should recommend to Congress that

CP provides Flexibility and predictability key to solve the economy and Diffuse Political Opposition

Rodriguez, NYU Law Prof, 10

[Cristina M., isiting Professor of law Harvard Law School, “Constraint Through Delegation: the Case of Executive Control Over Immigration Policy,” Duke Law Journal Vol. 59, www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?59+Duke+L.+J.+1787+pdf]

The regime governing labor migration should be flexible

AND

the mechanisms used to identify changed circumstances.2

=WAGES=

A. Uniqueness – wages are rising now.

Chase 8-22

[Katie Johnston, Boston Globe, “Raises give workers a lift,” 8/22/2010, []]

As the economy sputters back to life,

AND

98 percent expect to do so next year.

B. Link – expanding temporary workers crushes wages – large supply influx.

Beck, executive director, NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation, ‘4

[Roy, ‘Occupation Collapse’ and Poverty Wages: Consequences of Large Guestworker Programs’, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representative, March 24]

Expanded foreign guestworkers programs would just add to

AND

-third their incomes a few years ago.

C. Wage deflation kills the economy – consumer demand and investment.

Belser, principal editor of the ILO Global Wage Report, ‘10

[Patrick, “Why we should care about wages,” 1/18/2010, []]

The second reason why we should care is

AND

achieve more sustainable patterns of consumption and investment.

D. Extinction

Bearden 2k

T.E. Bearden, LTC U.S. Army (Retired), 2000 [“The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly,” [], June 24]

History bears out that desperate nations take desperate

AND

the biosphere__, at least for many decades.