So explain to me why, in a world of increasing automation, it is a good idea to import a bunch of people with only manual labor skills?
Doesn’t that seem on the face to be a really bad idea? Can no one see that?
Complete bullsquirt. Growth by Americans reproducing and being productive is one thing.
Growth by importing diseased third world socialists, communists, Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, africans, arabs, pakistanis, indians, and every stripe of human being who blames the poverty at home on the USA is insane.
We are importing 10s of millions of people who despise America, despise capitalism, despise white people in general. And you think that will “cure our ills”?
Dumbass.
We need a reset. Not just deporting all Illegal Aliens but a 10 year holiday from immigration.
The population needs to grow by intact families of non-Muslim faiths bearing more children and raising them to love America.
The “Federalist” pushing to import the third world who has never seen a toilet and half are illiterate in their own language, and a huge number are followers of an America, white people, Christian, and Jew hating death cult.
Who the hell is this idiot?
This is where our GOP insanity comes from.
Immigration is burden to the wager earner and tax payer. It is not victim-less crime.
Perhaps if we import half a billion Chinese citizens they will help us defend ourselves against China.
Even better, we can just ally with a few other countries that have in aggregate a half billion people and not all share a common citizenship.
(assuming, probably erroneously, that population will help win the next conflict)
Population growth is great for virtue signaling, homebuilders and empire building politicians who want more tax money to misdirect, but it does nothing to lift the per capita income or quality of life of existing citizens. If someone wants more neighbors in the US they can typically find them unless they already live in the most populous city.
High birth rates are a sign of prosperity and the opposite is also true. The USA needs a GDP growth spurt, to hold immigration in check, let wages rise considerably then young people will squirt kids out like rabbits.
Immigration to the USA should be stopped entirely for at least a decade while we remove all the illegals and all the legal non citizens who are receiving any sort of government welfare. The only exception should be University applicants on merit selection only in STEM fields.High testing graduates can be then offered green cards and a citizenship path. The US gained and retained its technology and science predominance by sucking in the world’s budding geniuses.
Wow—I never thought I’d be in agreement with Frum!
But he’s right. We need to drop our current population by sending the illegals here on home. Besides, robots/AI, etc.
And an economy that is dependent upon population growth is not a sound economy. Switzerland maybe has it about right, having taken a hundred years to have doubled to its current 8 million and on track for about the same over the next hundred years.
So the solution to OVERPOPULATION by Communist countries is to import those who support communism? This is madness.
In a US of 200 million people, we cjould muster enough firepower to defend our nation, and/or destroy any of the others if need be. Numbers mean very little in the warfare of today. If they cannot place enough soldiers on our soil to take over the entire country, and we cannot do the same, it is simply a stalemate. THAT is really where we are at this point in history. Of course they could or we could destroy much of the land and make it unhabitable. Sane nations know there is no point to this.
It is time to secede from the US, find a area of land and remove ourselves from this country. I seen no commonality between most of the those elected to represent us, the machinery they control, and the common people of most of the country.
It is either that, or a total overthrow of the government and institution of a new one. I am tired of worrying about, or fighting against something that none of us can change the course of without the use of arms.
Third world immigration is treason. Those who want more of it are traitors.
Some sort of entity with a billion "Americans" on top of the grave of what was once a great and livable country. What's not to like?
Coming from the Federalist. It just goes to show that some of our worse enemies are on out “own side”. We need to disavow the corporatists in our midsts until they start buying media and making them conservative outlets and forget about open borders.
Robots will do the jobs the Americans don’t want to do. Putting low skilled illegals on the welfare system even more than it is now.