Maybe if they came one at a time. If 20.000 show up, with all their kith and kin, the economy wouldn't absorb them. The job market is tight enough without 20,000 new resumes on the market. What are all these pocupines intending to do for work, since they clearly intend to do away with any govt. sponsored unemployment programs? Take to the hills like Randy Weaver? Sell each other tourist trinkets?
No, instead Idaho would suddenly jump to a high unemployment rate, housing would hit a shortfall that would send prices sky high, locals would be displaced by overabundant labor, the schools would be instantly over capacity, and the newbie voters would all be clamoring how they don't want to pay any taxes to cover their part of the public burden.
But, near as I can see, none of them have given the least thought to reality. They're not fascists, rascists, or socialists. They're idealists, which is worse.
A trickle would certainly help things.
What are all these pocupines intending to do for work,
In addition to bringing all of that capitol with them (most are financially secure) a lot of them would actually bring their businesses with them....jobs for ID's stagnant job market to soak up.
housing would hit a shortfall that would send prices sky high,
No argument from me on that point. I was in the market to buy a house when the Cali exodus hit Oregon.
They're idealists, which is worse.
Worse that socialists? I disagree. Without Idealists there would be no America, land of the free, home of the Brave, only another British colony.
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