JimBowie1958
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Immigration benefits the country.
I agree 100% as long as it is legal and orderly. We dont need swarms of desperate people sinking the life boat as it were. But we can let people in in a way that does not reduce the quality of life of those already here, otherwise all sink to the lowest common denominator in a mad race to the lowest cost and eventually slavery of the masses.
Silicon Valley would be a shadow of itself without it.
Well there are about 2,500,000 Americans with degrees in CompSci who have given up ever working their field. Perhaps some of them could have been retrained to do pretty much the same thing the H1-Bs do now?
Your protectionist policies do not benefit all Americans. They hurt most Americans. They cost Americans by raising the cost of labor, making goods more expensive and reducing aggregate income. They benefit the few - those who otherwise would not have lost their jobs - at the expense of the many through privilege via government laws.
Henry Ford proved you wrong. By paying more than the market demanded, he was able to expand the consumer market for his vehicles and Ford prospered. We all benefit from having jobs, better pay, a growing consumer market and the stability that is derived politically and economically.
Of course the government can and does go too far in almost everything it does, but I prefer the mess ups of a regulated market to the chaos of the jungle and I think most Americans do and benefit from these instruments of imposed order.
Retreating to within a shell and erecting protectionist barriers is a sign of weakness and decline.
Well, dude you know its going to happen. Hollande, once he gets elected in France, is going to FUBAR the EMU and the world is very likely to fall into reflexive protectionism. It is sort of a macroeconomic flinch when severe depressions set in and we are going to have a doozey in the next couple of years, maybe even this year.