Text 18477, 49 rader
Skriven 2008-07-01 19:19:52 av Jeff Smith (1:14/5)
  Kommentar till text 18409 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Make work
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Hello Björn.

30 Jun 08 17:24, you wrote to Joe Bruchis:

 JB>> Does that mean more jobs, or more competition? Does that mean
 JB>> more for the commonwealth, or more parasites on society?

 BF>    What has it meant for the USA during all those centuries from even
 BF> before the USA was invented?

     All those centuries? You mean both of them?


 BF>    Only simpletons believe that cross border migration is a bad thing.

     That depends on whether the immigrants become a productive part of
the workforce or are just looking for a handout. Then there is the matter
of the percentage of the immigrant income that goes back to their home
country. Surveys suggest that some country's GDP relies significantly on
remittances from US immigrant income. Some to the tune of 25%. The US allows
more legal immigrants than any other country on the planet. I think in
2006 it was like 37 million. Sweden in contrast was like 95,000 in 2006. It
should be noted though that Sweden's immigration rate has jumped dramatically
in the last couple of years.

 BF> Simpletons that blame every shortcoming and failure of their own on
 BF> "illegal immigrants" because the real truth would be to painful to
 BF> admit to.

     Illegal immigrants should be dealt with. America is essentially an
immigrant nation. That being the case I would think that a partial solution
would be if legal immigration were more appealing and illegal immigration
far less appealing or easy. Does that mean more border control?

 BF>    Sweden for one would still be the third world, piss ant,
 BF> insignificant little country that the Roys and Rosses of this world
 BF> seem to think, had it not been for all the immigrants we've been
 BF> fortunate enough to receive throughout all the centuries that has
 BF> passed since the Big Ice left our peninsula 10k years ago. Betcha that
 BF> pretty much the same goes for the USA albeit on a very much shorter
 BF> time scale...

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Jeff

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