Lionel No. 394 Rotating Beacon Light Tower Red Postwar Accessory (A-1)
Posted on 03/20/2025 12:29:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance argues that importing cheap foreign labor through mass immigration has led to declining productivity and economic stagnation in the West. Speaking at a summit of venture capitalists hosted by Andreesen Horowitz on Tuesday, the Vice President stated the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are “addicted to cheap labor,” which has fueled over 40 years of economic policy failures.
“I’d say that if you look in nearly every country, from Canada to the UK, that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you’ve seen productivity stagnate,” Vance told technology industry investors attending the summit. He continued: “That’s not a total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct.”
Vance contends that high levels of immigration in Britain and the United States have caused both countries’ workforces and innovators to become lazy, leading to plummeting productivity.
Is British productivity low? Yes. Output per hour is lower than comparable countries & it’s practically flatlined since the financial crisis. pic.twitter.com/1uR40tnWKN
— Sarah O’Connor (@sarahoconnor_) September 20, 2022
The Vice President also defended President Donald J. Trump’s tariff policies, stating that the trade measures are a “necessary tool to protect our jobs and our industries from other countries.”
“When you erect a tariff wall around a critical industry like auto manufacturing and you combine that with advanced robotics and lower energy costs and other tools that increase the productivity of U.S. labor, you give American workers a multiplying effect,” Vance said. “Now that, in turn, allows firms to make things here at a price-competitive basis.”
Starting April 2, the United States will impose reciprocal tariffs on nations that have placed high trade barriers on American goods.
P-whipped and tone deaf. He doesn’t represent American interests. Just the nuanced virtue signals beaconing from his wife.
“addicted to cheap labor”
It also stifles innovation.
If a business model is built upon breaking the law (hiring illegal immigrants) then it might be time to reconsider that model.
Eventually someone will come along with a technological advancement even low paid illegals can’t compete with.
Lionel No. 394 Rotating Beacon Light Tower Red Postwar Accessory (A-1)
It’s not exactly laziness, it’s an unwillingness to work for the artificially low rates of pay that can be paid to the imported laborers.
The vast majority of other nations have had really HUGE tariffs on American goods for a very long time.
"CHEAP LABOR", as well as too easy to get Welfare, has produced an extremely deleterious result on various segments of our populace.
Agree.
Scarce labor drives up wages and innovation to replace that labor.
That is why blacks don’t pick cotton anymore.
The great growth in the American Middle Class occurred during a time period of scarce labor.
But what the hell do I know and I don’t feel that strongly about it.
If the can’t import cheap labor, they’ll just deport the jobs overseas. UNAMERICAN
Who is "He"?
You should care because imported cheap labor votes, and not in a way you like.
That is what the tariffs do; they stop that very thing.
Vivek got into all kinds of trouble for pointing this out. It’s not a conversation Americans are ready to have, yet.
Wait!
I am in favor of scarce labor, not cheap immigrant or overseas labor.
I would have stopped immigration before the Irish got here....and never looked back. :-)
Well, the ‘Know-Nothing Party’ had its points!
Re-Elect Millard Fillmore!
Vivek got his ass thrown to the curb, and deservedly so.
Agreed.
There doesn’t seem to be a direct quotation from Vance on Americans becoming lazy and it would be a very stupid thing for him to say, so I’m thinking that’s something he said.
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