... Further more they feel they have first dibs on getting in here and more importantly they pull $28 billion dollars a year out of our economy and send it back in remittances. ...
Why is it; when in some local community, a business owner wants to build a factory to build widgets, etc. The business owner, the local politicians' exposes the virtues that the jobs will bring 3 (three) times the amount of money into said local community, by way of trickle down economics, i.e., said factory worker will now be able to hire say a landscaper, the landscaper will buy new equipment, the equipment seller will now be able {Fill in the Blank,} etc.
So if the above paragraph is a true {business} model, if you will, why or why not should the $28 billion dollars a year out of our economy not count as $84 billion dollars a year out of our economy.
I know that I'm the dumbest person in the room, but to me the math doesn't add up.
O.K. now chew me a new one, i.e., tell me how I've been out in the sun too long without a hat on.
The $28 billion is not being spent here in the US on any other good or service made or provided for here. It isn’t put back into our economy. It is taken out of it and sent out of the country. It’s a net loss for Americans. And this is after this rabble has been given free health care, free education , welfare, food stamps, etc.