Lumpenproletariat
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Is this "crisis" really so bad? Yes it's a "problem" -- sort of, but
There's a also good side:
Lower-cost labor is a benefit to the economy.
NPR and Sean Hannity agree on something: the number of migrants has greatly increased, showing up, being dropped off in major cities across the country, and it's a "crisis" -- all bad, a disaster. The mayor of New York and others are begging Pres. Biden/Congress to loosen the work restrictions, allow permits to these migrants. But Congress won't listen to these pleas, refuses to take up any idea of letting the new arrivals work. Because the Demos and Repubs both are worried about letting "these damn foreigners steal jobs from Red-Blooded Americans" (though they're not allowed to speak those words which express what they really think).
What's the matter with us? Why should we let all that low-cost labor go to waste? There's plenty of jobs already going vacant because American crybabies have to be paid more than they're worth. So,
Let employers hire them. Dummy! You can't figure that out?
Stop making it illegal to hire immigrants. Grant universal work permits to ALL immigrants. Probably a million, even 2 million would get hired immediately.
But that's not enough. Hire more of them, at half minimum wage or lower, to build shelters, some kind of low-cost housing.
America should have been doing this already, decades ago.
Instead of excluding them (or trying to), take them in, put them to work in many places where they're needed, in food production, construction, driving trucks. How about teaching jobs, especially language, teaching English. Even teaching Spanish to the African immigrants, etc., also to English-speakers/citizens who can't afford a Spanish course.
There are literally MILLIONS who could be put to work doing what's necessary. Much of the work would be in the logistics or survival needs to accommodate more immigrants. The general change that's needed, most of all, is to start using these immigrants themselves to do the work, to process in the further immigrants arriving, getting them to where they're needed. First, get them into their shelter -- that will take a day or 2 -- and then put them into a work program to help take care of the ones coming after them. Have some of them work for free, in return for their accommodations, pay others half minimum wage for more difficult work, and also allow all of them to seek employment in the regular market anywhere in the country.
There's no lack of space where to put them. 99.9% of the space throughout the country is unoccupied, so don't say there's no place to put them.
Why won't anything be done?
For the same reason we already haven't done it. Because of the Left-wing Economics philosophy of labor, the labor unions, the Progressives, who insist that:
No work is allowed
unless the wage is minimum $15/hour plus expensive benefits -- it's the God-Damn Employers who are to blame for everything! Raise the MW to $20/hour and every evil will go away. And work is prohibited unless all the crybaby wage-earners have job security and protection against any competition, against anyone who would offer to do the job for less. And protection from any foreign competition!
This is why the U.S. (and Britain and France and a few other crybaby nations) won't ever solve its immigration "problem" -- which is really not a problem in the first place. It's not a "problem" that we have extra people who want to work, who will work for less, and will keep coming unless we build walls and other barriers and impose laws making it illegal for employers to hire them. Which is both the Left- and Right-wing solution, The Biden and the Trump solution, the "Progressive" and the Fascist-Right solution, of excluding immigrants so they won't threaten "our jobs" by competing in the economy.
All this phoniness of the "Progressive" and Right-wing anti-immigrant philosophy, all the problems it causes and has caused for 100+ years -- it's solved by the simple basic Free-Market philosophy, based on the Law of Supply-and-Demand: Let producers make their own individual free choices, let all buyers and sellers, employers and wage-earners be free to choose individually instead of having the terms dictated to them by others. Let the free market work, and
let COMPETITION do its function of serving all consumers.
One more choice for the poll (but beyond the number allowed) -- what to do about the immigrants:
Send Trump and the Proud Boys to the border, give them a free hand to solve the problem. That will satisfy the Progressives (who want a magic wand to make the immigrants disappear), Biden voters, Demos and also the Right-Wing anti-immigrant Trumpists. Make everyone happy.
There's a also good side:
Lower-cost labor is a benefit to the economy.
NPR and Sean Hannity agree on something: the number of migrants has greatly increased, showing up, being dropped off in major cities across the country, and it's a "crisis" -- all bad, a disaster. The mayor of New York and others are begging Pres. Biden/Congress to loosen the work restrictions, allow permits to these migrants. But Congress won't listen to these pleas, refuses to take up any idea of letting the new arrivals work. Because the Demos and Repubs both are worried about letting "these damn foreigners steal jobs from Red-Blooded Americans" (though they're not allowed to speak those words which express what they really think).
What's the matter with us? Why should we let all that low-cost labor go to waste? There's plenty of jobs already going vacant because American crybabies have to be paid more than they're worth. So,
Let employers hire them. Dummy! You can't figure that out?
Stop making it illegal to hire immigrants. Grant universal work permits to ALL immigrants. Probably a million, even 2 million would get hired immediately.
But that's not enough. Hire more of them, at half minimum wage or lower, to build shelters, some kind of low-cost housing.
America should have been doing this already, decades ago.
Instead of excluding them (or trying to), take them in, put them to work in many places where they're needed, in food production, construction, driving trucks. How about teaching jobs, especially language, teaching English. Even teaching Spanish to the African immigrants, etc., also to English-speakers/citizens who can't afford a Spanish course.
There are literally MILLIONS who could be put to work doing what's necessary. Much of the work would be in the logistics or survival needs to accommodate more immigrants. The general change that's needed, most of all, is to start using these immigrants themselves to do the work, to process in the further immigrants arriving, getting them to where they're needed. First, get them into their shelter -- that will take a day or 2 -- and then put them into a work program to help take care of the ones coming after them. Have some of them work for free, in return for their accommodations, pay others half minimum wage for more difficult work, and also allow all of them to seek employment in the regular market anywhere in the country.
There's no lack of space where to put them. 99.9% of the space throughout the country is unoccupied, so don't say there's no place to put them.
Why won't anything be done?
For the same reason we already haven't done it. Because of the Left-wing Economics philosophy of labor, the labor unions, the Progressives, who insist that:
No work is allowed
unless the wage is minimum $15/hour plus expensive benefits -- it's the God-Damn Employers who are to blame for everything! Raise the MW to $20/hour and every evil will go away. And work is prohibited unless all the crybaby wage-earners have job security and protection against any competition, against anyone who would offer to do the job for less. And protection from any foreign competition!
This is why the U.S. (and Britain and France and a few other crybaby nations) won't ever solve its immigration "problem" -- which is really not a problem in the first place. It's not a "problem" that we have extra people who want to work, who will work for less, and will keep coming unless we build walls and other barriers and impose laws making it illegal for employers to hire them. Which is both the Left- and Right-wing solution, The Biden and the Trump solution, the "Progressive" and the Fascist-Right solution, of excluding immigrants so they won't threaten "our jobs" by competing in the economy.
All this phoniness of the "Progressive" and Right-wing anti-immigrant philosophy, all the problems it causes and has caused for 100+ years -- it's solved by the simple basic Free-Market philosophy, based on the Law of Supply-and-Demand: Let producers make their own individual free choices, let all buyers and sellers, employers and wage-earners be free to choose individually instead of having the terms dictated to them by others. Let the free market work, and
let COMPETITION do its function of serving all consumers.
One more choice for the poll (but beyond the number allowed) -- what to do about the immigrants:
Send Trump and the Proud Boys to the border, give them a free hand to solve the problem. That will satisfy the Progressives (who want a magic wand to make the immigrants disappear), Biden voters, Demos and also the Right-Wing anti-immigrant Trumpists. Make everyone happy.
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