Posted on 05/25/2011 10:58:37 PM PDT by rmlew
India gets a lot of those brainpower jobs that can be done remotely via the internet. Such as X-Ray evaluation by an Indian X-Ray technician. Such as transcribing medical dictation. Such as law firm work that is done in America by para-legals and skilled secretaries. All the above can be outsourced to India and is being outsourced to India which has hundreds of millions of educated English speakers
Philippines has credit card call centers. Lots of educated English speakers there too
I really think their vision is a small “braintrust” living in college town like environments served by a large population of poorly educated (diverse) “serfs”. I guess they figure the serfs will be easier to control than the American middle class of the 50s-80s.
Look to Milton (Open borders and the welfare state)
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWYwOTRlMzVkOGRjNjkyYTIwZjQyZGI5MDY1MTJmYTE=
A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state,” he warned. This remark adds insight to the current debate over immigration in the U.S. Senate.
...There is a rough one-to-one fiscal balance between low-skill immigrant families and upper-middle-class families. It takes the entire net tax payments (taxes paid minus benefits received) of one college-educated family to pay for the net benefits received by one low-skill immigrant family. Even Julian Simon, the godfather of open-border advocates, acknowledged that imposing such a burden on taxpayers was unreasonable, stating, “immigrants who would be a direct economic burden upon citizens through the public coffers should have no claim to be admitted” into the nation.
Undoing the Immigration Act of 1965 is easier than undoing the New Deal. Libertarians are being disengenous, as they’ll quote Friedman here, but never call for ending or reducing immigration, while they fight the welfare state. Instead they applaude their “virtue” as the underclass grows and the number of defendants and those alienated from America grows.
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Conservative immigration advocates insist on a cultural exceptionalism that will absorb immigrants because of our innate superiority. And that can work in the proper ratios. Done correctly the host society ends up with some new ethnic foo...ds, a few immigrant communities and some more loanwords. Done incorrectly, entire cities become no go zones and go bankrupt providing social welfare for all.
The difference isn't just in the numbers, though those are important, but selectivity. Immigration will almost always spike crime rates, but those go down as absorption takes hold. (So long as productive absorption is possible.) What you never do is import mass populations who think of your country as their own and want to take it over. In such a scenario the absorption will go the other way and then you end up with the likes of Taliban Terry, a former altar boy who goes around Dublin, with son Osama in tow."
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Then dilution of the mechanisms that produced prosperity in the successful civilization.
Then collapse and rebirth in another form that eventually prospers.
Then the process restarts, all by itself.
Been going on for a long time.
The desire for poor groups to move into richer areas is not new. But there is no rule that the rich group has to take up antinationalism as a religion, invite them in and subsidize them,
They still can not be kept out.
The process at the beginning of the last century requiring sponsors and no welfare worked out well in retrospect.
If one lived at that time one would feel like many do today... It was not as pretty as one today would like to believe. That wave of immigration from one civilization to another resulted in the prosperity we see today.
It goes on and on, round and round.
Brilliant nice piece. Also we have a microcosm within this country. Where liberals escape liberal states to successful ones and then infect those states bringing their disease with them. Dictatorship becomes the only cure available till the cycle begins all over again.
Thanks rmlew.
Liberals should experiment on their OWN turf first, and then report the results to us.
Cheers!
ping
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