Lumpenproletariat
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(in the following video, click to about 20 minutes in, where the hearing begins)
This Senate hearing focused on the need for more immigrant workers in health care, where there are catastrophic shortages due to very bad immigration policies dating back to the 1990s, preventing qualified needed immigrants from entering the workforce. Some are already in the U.S. and going to waste, while others are waiting to be admitted. The excuses for excluding them are obscene. Both Democrat and Republican demagogues are refusing to fix this because of populist anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., which is given priority over reason and the public welfare. The problems are summarized in this Sept. 14 hearing, but nothing is going to be done to change anything, because both Democrats and Republicans -- both Red and Blue fanatics in the general population -- hate immigrants so much that they would prefer to let the health care system collapse and millions suffer, rather than increase the number of immigrant workers.
But it's not just the health care industry which is suffering from worker shortages. Other examples of critical shortages are given, like food production and construction.
The typical Left-wing hate of immigrant workers is the perception that these workers would compete with American workers and thus drive down the wage levels, and basic Left-wing Progressive ideology adheres to the doctrine that wages must always be pushed up higher and higher, by law if necessary, regardless of market demand. Progressives hate wage competition and employers so much that they would prefer to let all consumers suffer, driving down the living standard of everyone, rather than allow in more immigrant labor to increase the production and supply. So instead they turn to their typical employer-bashing and scapegoating of corporations generally, also to China-bashing and the need to "bring back the factories" or "bring back the jobs" from China. This is all the Bernie Sanders populists understand. And when they can't get Bernie nominated to be their champion, they'll join the Red fanatics, even vote for Trump -- anyone who says "NO!" to more immigrants and foreign competition.
This subcommittee session is good as something to let the thoughtful ones see what is wrong. But the mindless masses are not listening.
Seal the border? Republicans on the committee only care about turning back the flood of illegals at the border, as if that is the main problem. But that problem itself is largely caused by refusal to allow all the immigrant workers who are needed. If those "illegal aliens" were simply legalized, allowed to enter and take jobs where they're needed, the remaining immigrants would be reduced to a manageable number.
Flatlining Care: Why Immigrants Are Crucial to Bolstering Our Health Care Workforce | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
This Senate hearing focused on the need for more immigrant workers in health care, where there are catastrophic shortages due to very bad immigration policies dating back to the 1990s, preventing qualified needed immigrants from entering the workforce. Some are already in the U.S. and going to waste, while others are waiting to be admitted. The excuses for excluding them are obscene. Both Democrat and Republican demagogues are refusing to fix this because of populist anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., which is given priority over reason and the public welfare. The problems are summarized in this Sept. 14 hearing, but nothing is going to be done to change anything, because both Democrats and Republicans -- both Red and Blue fanatics in the general population -- hate immigrants so much that they would prefer to let the health care system collapse and millions suffer, rather than increase the number of immigrant workers.
But it's not just the health care industry which is suffering from worker shortages. Other examples of critical shortages are given, like food production and construction.
The typical Left-wing hate of immigrant workers is the perception that these workers would compete with American workers and thus drive down the wage levels, and basic Left-wing Progressive ideology adheres to the doctrine that wages must always be pushed up higher and higher, by law if necessary, regardless of market demand. Progressives hate wage competition and employers so much that they would prefer to let all consumers suffer, driving down the living standard of everyone, rather than allow in more immigrant labor to increase the production and supply. So instead they turn to their typical employer-bashing and scapegoating of corporations generally, also to China-bashing and the need to "bring back the factories" or "bring back the jobs" from China. This is all the Bernie Sanders populists understand. And when they can't get Bernie nominated to be their champion, they'll join the Red fanatics, even vote for Trump -- anyone who says "NO!" to more immigrants and foreign competition.
This subcommittee session is good as something to let the thoughtful ones see what is wrong. But the mindless masses are not listening.
Seal the border? Republicans on the committee only care about turning back the flood of illegals at the border, as if that is the main problem. But that problem itself is largely caused by refusal to allow all the immigrant workers who are needed. If those "illegal aliens" were simply legalized, allowed to enter and take jobs where they're needed, the remaining immigrants would be reduced to a manageable number.
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