Posted on 05/05/2016 5:11:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Doesn’t anyone do math anymore? Using the lowest GDP figure from the study, we are to believe the average employed illegal adds almost $60k to GDP. Color me dubious.
by conservative think tank the American Action Forum.
This is a globalist think tank that calls itself conservative. It is not.
I doubt it would cost that much. However, if he enacts it, a 2% initial investment would pay much larger dividends down the road.
I think it would add 2 points to GDP by freeing up all the money taken by government for welfare leeches and leaving it in the private sector.
http://www.americanactionforum.org/about/
LEADERSHIP
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN
President
FRED MALEK
Chairman, American Action Forum
SENATOR NORM COLEMAN
Of Counsel, Hogan Lovells US LLP
ELAINE CHAO (McConnell)
24th Secretary of Labor
JAMES BARKSDALE
Chairman and President, Barksdale Management Corporation
PETER BELL
Former Chairman, Metropolitan Council
WENDY GRUBBS
Former Special Assistant, President George W. Bush
BOBBIE KILBERG
President, Northern Virginia Technology Council
LAUREN MADDOX
Education Expert
GOVERNOR JOHN R. MCKERNAN, JR.
Chairman and CEO, McKernan Enterprises, Inc.
BILLY PITTS
President, Capitol BrainTrust
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL CHERTOFF
Co-Founder and Chairman, The Chertoff Group
AMBASSADOR BOYDEN GRAY
Founding Partner, Boyden Gray & Associates
Oh, you mean MY money???
Again, I know that there is no concept of "my money" when it comes to liberals. It's just the money I'm allowed to hold until they decide what to spend it on (usually themselves or their buddies).
Murder of a family member cannot have a cost put on it.
Get rid of the Mexicans and you prevent lots of murders.
Just that there trumps any economic concern.
The elites try to distract us with money concerns. Some things transcend that - such as the survival and safety of my family.
“Murder of a family member cannot have a cost put on it.”
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Totally agree.
But the economic burden of supporting illegals leaves less funding for national defense as well.
No, it would just redirect 2% of GDP back to Americans’ wages.
If anything it will cleanse the welfare roles of millions of foreign parasites and open up jobs to millions of Americans currently on the welfare roles.
There are no downsides to this except to greedy pockets in the Cheap Labor lobby and the Democrat voter bloc and neither of those are downsides at all.
In this case it aint about money not that I believe them of course!
Norm was frauded out of the 1st election, but he is a jerk now.
I think it would add 2 points to GDP by freeing up all the money taken by government for welfare leeches and leaving it in the private sector.
For one obvious example: Much of the money earned by illegals in America ends up being sent back to Mexican families, in Mexico; and, as a result is spent there. If the employment of the illegals results--as of course it does--on native Americans being out of work, that factor not only reduces the money native Americans have to spend, it may result in tax money going to impoverished native Americans, further costing the native population.
The much harder to evaluate damage to Americans, generally, goes to the erosion of identity; the watering down of pride in heritage; the loss of confidence in our political & legal system, etc..
No, the blog is from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, someone who admires Donald Trump’s persuasion abilities and helps explain them.
I’m intrigued to see how far people on FR are willing to go with Trump. He hasn’t turned left, but he’s put on his turn signal a few times. In a few months, we’ll see if he turns out to be any better than Romney and McCain. And frankly, I don’t think Hillary stands a chance against Trump. He’s got too much going for him and she’s shown herself to have very little firepower left.
It will be our task to hold his feet to the fire.
" Of course if Trump wins in November, it will be immediately followed by a stock market crash “proving” trump will be a disaster for the economy."
Agreed. But that won't "prove" anything, except that government intervention always leads to bad consequences, and how gullible the media informed masses are.
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