Another immigration wave could be just what we need. Ultimately, I don't think economic performance should be a priority when forming state policy, but a sudden influx of eager immigrants would spur the economy far more, and far more legitimately, than any phony 'stimulus package'.
Disagree.
Not about macro economics but in-the-main, mindful of the economic and social impact upon our
existing countrymen and their families.
We are already a nation of 310,000,000 and there is no more room at the inn.
We're full-up, coast to coast, physically and metaphorically, and with respect to education and housing and employment and welfare and other pooled resources and benefits.
We no longer require waves of immigrants to populate empty grasslands and to build new cities and rail lines and the like.
Those times are now largely behind us and we are the first generations of Americans beginning to recognize and confront this new truth and changed state of affairs.
It is probably safe and fair to speculate we are (metaphorically) living in the past, with respect to immigration, and our attitudes and preferences and actions in that context.
Some of us are
sooooo caught up and (very understandably) in love with the idea of greeting immigrants with open arms, that they've lost sight of the size of our population and our eroding ability to provide and maintain a desirable standard of living for our existing fellow countrymen.
The welcoming of newcomers gives us a case of the warm-and-fuzzies... it makes us feel good... and some of us want to continue feeling good about that, even in their current millions, even after they've trespassed, even during very difficult times.
Taking-up a contrary (anti-Illegal Aliens / anti-Shamnesty) position is not xenophobic nor hateful nor an exercise in blaming Illegals for our present ills; it is a logical and common-sense acknowledgement of the present state of affairs and a willingness to suspend our active encouragement of immigration for a while (
some years, a couple of decades, whatever) until we can put our house in order again and until we are once again in a position of economic and societal strength and have time and luxury for this sort of thing.
We have a grand and loving tradition of welcoming immigrants on a large scale, but we're so gallantly committed to that lovely tradition that we have become blind to the fact that sustaining that tradition is beginning to press too heavily upon our fellow countrymen - that it is costing our people too much - in lowered wages and diminished opportunities and still further erosion of our standard of living - to be considered practicable or worthwhile or even wise or safe,
especially given that we're still hip-deep in a Hyper-Recession (a.k.a. Major Depression).
We need another 12,000,000 workers swamping the employment marketplace like we need a hole in the head - from the perspective of American workers, anyway.
Personally, I stand with my fellow
countrymen, and
their well-being, and
their long-term prospects, and
not with some unproven and unlikely ethereal economic benefit, and not with some 12,000,000 uninvited and unwelcome trespassers or invaders, and certainly not with our elected frauds who are attempting to perpetrate this outrage upon our country and our countrymen, while hiding in plain sight.
< climbs off soap-box, throws 'rant' switch to 'off' position >
