Good for Charles—make it a hundred year pause and then we check the results!
We need to limit low IQ immigration. They will most likely be ‘Rat voters.
I believe this is the Charles Murray who co-authored “The Bell Curve.” He has long been aware of the effects of indiscriminate immigration.
Who will do the “jobs Americans won’t do”? I mean, we pay our indigenous low skilled population welfare to NOT work, and then complain there’s nobody to do the job. This isn’t something new. We’ve been paying people to sit on their sorry butts and do nothing but breed more of the same for decades now. Those people don’t want a job. They however, expect EBT cards.
The Cheap Labor Express expressing doubts?
Yes, we should end low skill immigration. But our native low-skills need to do their part by changing their destructive lifestyles of drugs, illegitimate kids, divorce, no education, more tattoos than work ethic, etc.
You can cut off low-skill immigration, but you still have to convince low-skill Americans to work.
There are something like 90 million working-age Americans out of the labor force, who are able to stay there because of government support. There’s a very high “welfare cliff” in this country.
What will it take for these Americans to take jobs picking apples, driving trucks or sweeping floors?
“The thing that has gotten to me over this year … has been the very simple idea that the citizens of a nation owe something to each other that is over and above our general obligation to other human beings” outside the United States, Murray said Sept. 26.
How could it not have occurred to Murray that it is in the vested self-interest of ALL citizens not to nurture an underclass of the permanently unemployed, who at best depend on government, and often descend into crime? Limiting immigration helps citizens who pay the welfare costs for both the new immigrants and the displaced Americans? It is in everyone’s self-interest except large employers who want to keep their own labor costs low but shift the costly effects onto others. The oversupply of unskilled labor drives the price down below a subsistence level. The only solution is to stop flooding the market with supply.
For years, Murray has presented outside-the-box facts and analysis with high intelligence and courage. That he has only just figured this one out show how blinding Ideology can be.
Low skills?
LOL!
How about no skills pertinent to a 21st century culture and production.
Interview with Somali:
So, you know how to stand in line for UN relief supplies, hide weapons for your pirate relatives, gather dung for fires, torture, mutilate, and dismember Christians, ulalate loudly, and scream death to the infidels in large crowds. Oh, and prostrate yourself five times a day and wash your feet. How about washing the rest of yourself with soap? Soap? Well soap is...
Patriotism springing up among libertarians ...
“I have had to undergo a great deal of rethinking on all of this this year… [now] I want to shut down low-skill immigration for a while,” Charles Murray told a D.C. event hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The thing that has gotten to me over this year … has been the very simple idea that the citizens of a nation owe something to each other that is over and above our general obligation to other human beings” outside the United States, Murray said Sept. 26.
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Who said intellectuals were smart? This guy always gets on my nerves.
High skilled H-1B visas should be slashed to zero too.
outside the United States...
OMG! Someone 'gets it'...
Brilliant! /s
The weird thing about such Libertarians is that they seem to believe that Libertarianism will survive unfettered immigration and no enforcement of national borders. What is the typical form of governance in the Third World? Authoritarian dictatorship, which is exactly what they’ll get if they have their way on immigration. It’s naive beyond belief, what they’re pushing. I’ve had my day thinking I was Libertarian for a few years, but this was one of the issues that pushed me away. It’s sheer stupidity.