I have a question for the red meat crowd.
Where are you going to get workers of working age to do work? Don't say legal immigrants from Europe. They have their own demographic and ageing problems and will offer equivalent incentives so you can take that off the table as a reply.
So, answer that question. It's not a matter of work Americans won't do. It's a matter of work there are not enough Americans of working age to do. So where are you going to get workers of working age to do the work?
Legal immigration? So you want to ramp up processing at the Mexico border and let more in with green cards? Okay, . . . but isn't that part of the plan in Congress? Ship them back to the border for processing and let them back in? That would be part of the ramp up, yes? Put them at the back of the line? Okay, with the ramp up, the line traverses in 20 mins.
So . . . what's the problem?
No, it is not. I have not seen one iota of evidence that it is.
So Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, India and China are my only choices?
Oh sure Owen, if you say so.
We should be giving priority to immigrants from Poland, Romania, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, Italy and Spain.
And by the way I don't know what incentives those Eastern European governments could possibly afford to offer their citizens.
But for now, we've still got our lips planted on the buttocks of every third world crap-hole south of the Rio Grande. It ain't right, and it needs to change.