{"id":16131,"date":"2021-10-22T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2021-10-21T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:43:18","slug":"paradox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16131","title":{"rendered":"Paradox One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16132\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=16132\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1634294916&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=541%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16132\" width=\"541\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our country has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/briefing\/labor-shortage-us-low-wage-economy.html\">labor shortage<\/a> that is slowing economic growth. At the same time that we are employing more than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security\">240,000 people<\/a> in the Department of Homeland Security to keep out the millions of people who want to come here to fill those jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We should be embarrassed by our stupidity and ashamed of our behavior. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?cat=10\">more of my writing on immigration.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo is of a contemporary petroglyph that is available in the gift shop at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenix.gov\/parks\/arts-culture-history\/pueblo-grande\">Pueblo Grande Museum<\/a>. Where I work as a volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our country has a labor shortage that is slowing economic growth. At the same time that we are employing more than 240,000 people in the Department of Homeland Security to keep out the millions of people who want to come here to fill those jobs. We should be embarrassed by our stupidity and ashamed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[76,433],"class_list":["post-16131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radical-migration","tag-immigration","tag-petroglyphs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/62EB98B6-23C1-4820-8677-5D8E3E989439_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16133,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/16133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}