--TheWall (Breitbart comment)
How about a moratorium on immigration for a full generation instead. /Not sarc
I know this is Breitbart and Breitbart is a wonderful Source one that I generally trust. However I seriously doubt President Trump wants to do all these things that are said in this article. I tend to look at what he has done which is what? He has created millions of jobs he has built up the middle class he is allowed people who own companies hire more people that stares in the face of what this article says. Therefore once in awhile Breitbart may get it wrong.
Try doing this in New Zealand . They would throw you in a Volcano What did the Koch Bros promise Trump on Jan 9 at their WH dinner ?
Koch Bros hate trump and his base ? The Koches hate Americans .
So you are working on defeating Trump in 2020 and hoping for a democrat to win? Good luck with that. We have already imported 35 million LEGAL immigrants in 30 Years, before Trump was in office. See my tag line.
Trump is trying his best to change immigration based on merit instead of merely have a relative on green card in US to get admitted as legal immigrant.
“Now where does that leave Americans?”
AOC guaranteed income paychecks
Build a comprehensive border wall, curtail illegal immigration, and then a few years later we can look at expanding legal immigration. What is the point in even making a distinction about legal immigration if we condone illegal immigration?
That comment is ignorant.
This article throws around numbers as if they mean what the author says they mean.
Headline writer botches completely
The principle that increases in productivity of labor leads to increased average real wage rates (not money wage rates) and increased standard of living of the average worker, works best in the context of a free, rational, modern capitalistic economy.
When are Americans going to wake up to the fact that we must be able to compete with others? Not only in our products but also in our producers.
Look at the skills and attitudes of our college graduates, let alone their idiot professors & administrators. We moan & complain about “cheap foreign labor” and condemn our manufacturers, yet we willingly flock to Black Friday Sales.
Cheap imported labor was the temporary solution to picking cotton. Then John Daniel Rust invented the first practical spindle cotton picker in the late 1930s. Automation eliminated nearly all of those cotton picking jobs, yet I’ve never heard anyone complain about their loss.
If we Americans aspire to be great, then we must teach more wisely, study more attentively and work more effectively than other nations. Instead, we have become a touchy-feely, “gimme-dat” nation - all of us, from ghetto welfare recipients to WASP college critters to Corporate bigwigs to politicians, Hollywood, and the media.
Textile mills moved from New England to the South in search of less expensive Labor. Later they moved to Developing Countries for the same reason. Now many of those workers in the Developing Countries are assembling sophisticated electronic equipment and consumer goods.
Later, Swiss & German textile machinery manufacturers, looking for less expensive labor, moved their manufacturing plants to the old textile mill areas of the South, like the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC region. South Carolina COMPETED with Switzerland and German for jobs and WON. Now BMW and Michelin manufacture there.
If I want to sell my labor to a prospective employer, I have to demonstrate that his cost for my productivity & quality is less than that of another worker. I can do this by several means:
Charge less wages.
Produce more per unit of time.
Produce higher quality products which command a higher price in the market.
Produce unique things that no one else can.
Or a combination of all of the above.
This is just one of many video clips of this incident that you can find all over the internet.
The symbolism of this jumped out at me, and perfectly captures the essence of what this country has become ... a bunch of white and black knuckleheads blocking a highway, and a crowd of people commuting to work -- including mostly Asian and Latin American immigrants -- telling them to get the hell off the road.
I'd love to hire only American-born workers. But anyone who tells me I should hire an @sshole blocking a highway over an immigrant who just wants to get to work is out of his f#%&ing mind and really ought to think hard about what this country even means anymore.
How is wage suppression maga or America first? This reeks of kushner.
American workers first, then immigrant labor if and as needed.
... a pending automation doomsday that lawmakers have yet to regulate threatens millions of America’s working and middle class workers.
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Marxist economics. We have been automating ever since machines were invented; so, under this theory, we should all be unemployed. The reason why this hasn’t happened is that there will always be work to do and needs to be met, and free markets — if they are allowed to function — will provide work for people. Note: my response is not an argument for open borders — just an answer to Marxist fear of automation.
But I also note that the President has promised to make legal immigration based on merit, among those who "love" us--at least to te extent of accepting our cultural premises--what "naturalization" in the Constitution, was obviously intended to accomplish.
Here is some ammunition for our side: