around here... it's a lumber mill and a couple of dairy farms.Total population, population density or natural resources have absolutely nothing to do with total gdp or per capita gdp.
Let's take the US, Japan, and Canada vs. Russia, South Africa, Madagascar.
This article is crap. Besides, if you follow this argument, after we stop immigration, we should start self extermination to really get the per capita gdp numbers up.
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, let's all start abortion NOW.
Rush had a good segment on this today when he read an E-mail from a subscriber taking him to task for supporting NAFTA and free trade but not open borders. Articles like this help people see the difference between the free exchange of goods and the importation of cheap labor. Open borders don't equal free trade.
One aspect not mentioned by Rush was that there is a treaty regarding the exchange of goods but the exchange of labor is one way only. Its not possible for me or you to go to Mexico and get a job even if they have a crying need for our skills. Mexico has laws which prevent that.
The riposte to those who regurgitate the WSJ dicta of "there shall be open borders".
Privatizing profit, socializing costs.
And then the southern aristoicrats assured themselves of a cheap labor pool by instituting slavery.
Now modern aristocratic plantation owners of both liberal and conservative persuasion are now willing to sow the seeds of discontent which will blossom into a modern civil war, all for access to cheap labor from the historic equivalent of slaves and indentured servants. The black community in AMerica is against the immigration and amnesty of the senate bill. Ask yourself why? They are still trying to get over the last cheap labor assignation of the southern states, and now face a modern version of it.
Damn the senate and their neo-slavery. If immigrants come to this country they must be willing to assimilate and be free men and women. Any thing else just doesn't cut it!
Deport them wholesale and damn the modern aristocratic plantation owners. Enough already!
As someone else on FR once pointed out, watch Fear Factor some time and that proves quite true.
The analysis is largely correct, but the problem is that most Americans are now spoiled on very low retail and service prices and are not willing to pay more in order to provide those higher wages to American workers or legal immigrants. Employers are being squeezed by the global economy to force wages down any way they can, because it's the biggest cost they can actually control. It's pretty hard to blame them for lobbying for cheap labor. They can't pay workers more than what they can charge for their goods and services and make a reasonable profit. This is where free trade does matter, because all those factory jobs left for China, India, Bangladesh, and Mexico well before the current Mexican invasion happened. But what the hell, I can get a shirt for 10 bucks at Wal-Mart!
Hell yes - and not have the stress of corporate America? Hell yes!!!
I don't get it.
This article makes the points that immigrants are less educated, and that Bill Gates supports immigration so that he can get cheap labor.
What kind of cheap labor does Bill Gates get from uneducated immigrants?
This guy is all over the place...nuts.
The more you pay for labor, the more it costs to produce an item, and the higher the price of that item.
What you earns means nothing, is what you can buy with what you earn that matters.
around here... it's a lumber mill and a couple of dairy farms.... Consumers!
But it would be a good essay if he hadn't ignored the obvious. Most consumers are laborers too.
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I used to work for a large Wall Street investment banking firm. When downsizing took place in 2002, there were few American workers left in the IT support group thanks to the H-1B visa program. The majority of workers remaining in IT support are now foreigners on work visas. American workers were forced out in favor of cheap, easy to exploit foreign labor. Of course, a large portion of the savings went towards a huge bonus for the CEO and not back into the company.
Rarely have I seen a woman write with such intelligence about illegal immigration
There are at least two more alternatives if one does not import labor, one can do without or export jobs. Whichever one is more profitable.