Editor’s Note: In this interview, J.D. Hayworth discusses his primary campaign for U.S. Senate against John McCain, his distaste for  Big Government, the need for border security, his “involvement” with the Birther movement, and more.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: Congressman Hayworth, you have a monumental task ahead of you, namely defeating the 2008 Republican standard bearer in the 2010 primaries.  What is it that has changed in a year and a half that gives you confidence in this race?

J.D. HAYWORTH: What continues to change more than anything is John McCain, who I actually campaigned for way back in 2000.  He continues to abandon core conservative principles and the voters in Arizona have noticed.  There was a poll last year that showed that more than 60% of Arizona Republicans felt that John McCain did not share their conservative values.  After that, there was a Rasmussen poll that showed he and I running neck-and-neck in a hypothetical matchup.  Then you have to add the wonderful reawakening of this country’s patriotic base.  Obama has shown us what the future looks like if we do not get our act together and elect real, consistent conservatives to office.

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ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE:  Senator Santorum, you spearhead what’s called the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Program Protect America’s Freedom.   At this moment what is the biggest threat to America’s freedom, and what action should we take against it?

SENATOR SANTORUM: The biggest threat to our nation’s security is the war against radical Islam.  Since 9/11/01, I have said that we need to accurately identify our enemy so that we can effectively defeat it.  The radical Islamists who are hell bent on destroying our way of life and prosperity aren’t just simply terrorists – terror is a tactic – they are an
ideological enemy who will use their own people as weapons.

I also believe that a nuclear-armed Iran and its rogue president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an enormous threat to our nation’s security.  However, one bright spot is Iran’s Green Revolution. It continues to grow and could lead Iran into a revolution that may end Ahmadinejad’s reign.
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In this exclusive interview, Economics Professor and Rush Limbaugh guest host Walter E. Williams tackles everything from the economy to the Great Depression to “Black Economics” to the perfect gift for the Mrs. this holiday season.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: In your book, Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism, you wrote that American education is “in shambles.”  Simultaneously there is a major push to have more and more people attend college.  These students are the freshmen in your classes, so what’s the most egregious example of miseducation you have seen personally in the classroom?

WALTER E. WILLIAMS: Oh, well.  I’ve seen students who cannot do simple mathematical computations, students who have very poor use of the language.  Let me give you one example.  Some years ago (I haven’t noticed it recently or I haven’t taught the introductory classes where I do get a lot of freshmen.) I’ve come across students writing in their bluebook.  They cite something, and spell it several different ways, site, cite, sight, not being able to differentiate between the various terms.  Then a lot of it is that students are many times just plain lazy.  They don’t want to do the work.  They expect a high grade for a mediocre performance.

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Adam Smith, Father of Modern Economics

An All Right Magazine Exclusive Interview

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE:  Dr. Bulter, you are the director of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading British economic think tank named for the Father of Economics, Adam Smith.  If Adam Smith were here today, observing the current economic situation in Britain and America, what would he say?

DR. EAMONN BUTLER: Probably “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” Or, I guess, republic. In other words, households are doing the right thing by tightening their belts, reducing their costs, looking for new sources of income, and paying down debt. That’s how you get out of trouble when you have overspent and over borrowed. Our governments, by contrast, seem to think they can spend their way out of overspending and borrow their way out of debt. You don’t have to be the father of modern economics to know that.

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ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE:  The stated goal of the Federation for American Immigration Reform is to reduce immigration to around 300,000 per year.  As it stands, the number is about 1,000,000.  What’s the difference?

FAIR: The difference is a higher quality of life for all Americans.  Stopping illegal immigration and reducing legal immigration is critical to every aspect of our well being.  We need a “cooling off” period. The annual level of admissions has been running higher for longer than ever before in our history.  It’s out of control because it’s fueled by the greed for cheap labor by big business, instant votes for the political parties, and the desire to increase membership and political clout by the ethno-centric groups.  The demands of these groups seem to dictate our immigration policy – a policy that is really intended to serve the broad national interest, not the needs of special interests.

The state of our current immigration policy doesn’t reflect our past American heritage, and it’s not in our current or future best interests.  From 1925-1965 we had what is often called the Golden Age of Immigration.  The numbers were controlled and sustainable, about 178,000 a year.  At no time in history were immigrants more welcomed, assimilated as quickly, or done so well.  But from 1965 to 1989 the numbers skyrocketed to about 567,000 annually.  And then from 1990 on, we are seeing more than 1 million arriving every year. The growth is so large that California has to build a school every day just to keep up with new immigrants!

We simply do not have the space, the resources or the capacity to absorb them all.   We are oversupplying our markets with cheap labor, burdening our schools, hospitals, jails, and testing the limits of our natural resources and energy supplies.

Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but we’re principally a nation of laws and sociologically a nation of citizens.  We can still have immigration but just not at the huge level we have now.  Sustainability is the key. And we already have the most generous  immigration policy of all major countries and have nothing to apologize for.

It all comes to this.  There is more immigration demand in the world than the U.S. can possibly satisfy.  Right now there are 6.6 billion people on planet earth and that number grows by 78 million every year and over 50% live on less than $2 per day.  As the world’s population continues to explode, people will want to continue going where the conditions are best, and they’ll want to come to the U.S.  That makes sense for them, but not for us.  We are no longer the emerging industrial nation with wide open spaces for development and growth we used to be.

Immigration policy is in effect, population policy.  It speaks directly to the issue of “carrying capacity.”  Exactly how many more people do we want to squeeze into what is becoming a sardine can of a country?  Based on our present trends of one million legal entries and ½ million illegal alien entries each year…we really have perpetual growth in a finite place and that cannot realistically continue.  Our immigration policy needs to reflect our needs and the realities of the present day.

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An ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE Exclusive Interview

2008-12-26

Make a new year’s resolution to pick up this political thriller.
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