Immigrant versus Citizen Employment

American Thinker ^ | 06/30/2014 | Michael Grable

[SeekAndFind]

In Friday's American Thinker, Thomas Lifson drew three valid conclusions from the recent study disclosing that the nation's total net employment gain so far during the 21^st century has gone exclusively to immigrants, "while native-born Americans have suffered a decline in the numbers employed."  Here’s one additional conclusion: we're complementing the American welfare state by recruiting workers from the world's failed nations – and, in the process, setting ourselves up to also become a failed nation.

Why does an America that each year spends over 6% of its entire gross domestic product on welfare transfer payments need to recruit replacement workers from failed nations – particularly when the replacement workers themselves merely increase America's overall welfare burden?  Why does America need to import tens of millions of low-wage and unskilled workers when America has 47 million citizens on food stamps, 11 million citizens on social security disability, a real (and chronic) citizen unemployment rate approaching 15% (contra the official 6.5%), a citizen labor participation rate lower than it was 3.5 decades ago, and an accumulated welfare cost since Lyndon Johnson higher than America's entire national debt (now $17.5 trillion, with no end in sight)?

[G Larry]

It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants and minorities, by flooding the labor market with ILLEGAL Immigrants.

[subterfuge]

Stop ALL immigration, period!

[RWGinger]

One final question
why do so many Dem Pols and media want American citizens kept on welfare and want so many illegals kept in?
I understand the people on welfare wanting to stay on welfare
but the Dem Pols and media must understand this path is not sustainable.

so why are they for it?

[Gaffer]

I’m certainly with you on that point. We simply do not need them if we place the right emphasis on real education in this country. Immigration, legal or otherwise, in this country is just not needed.

[Gaffer]

Because of the power and control obtained through “bread and circuses.” History is replete with it.

[Ouderkirk]

Why does America need to import tens of millions of low-wage and unskilled workers

Because they will vote for democRATS. QED

[RWGinger]

I understand but that power and control will mean nothing when there is NO money
and there will be No money.

[wiggen]

correct. so your question is?
you realize you only have a question if you believe that the liberal politicians pushing an ever larger welfare state onto the nation care one whit about the nation. They don’t. They care about, as it was put, money and power. They cannot see past their own terms.

[pierrem15]

What you said: if you look at America’s economic glory years from 1945 - 1975, one of the main causes was slamming the door shut on virtually all immigration from 1929 - 1965.

[VRW Conspirator]

so why are they for it?

Whatever the answer, that is exactly what many European countries did.

[RWGinger]

You may be correct about Pols
but that doesn’t explain so much of the media supporting and lobbying for more and more welfare.
Many of them are smart enough to understand what is going on with other welfare nations and can see what the enormous expansion of our welfare programs is doing to out deficit and more importantly to our debt.