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Did you even read the study? Or are you just going by the words of a journalist who isn't a scientist?
Yes, because the first thing you should do when a boatload of people fleeing chemical gas attacks is ask if they have enough money to help our rich people get richer.
You certainly do live up to making the dollar the only value you care about, to the exclusion of all other considerations. I'm sure you are content with this. I can't say I share your notion of morals nor ethics, however.
You know nothing of my ethics or morals, so please stop pretending.
Both candidate believe in vetting. Isn't that correct?
My understanding of your ethics and morals is defined by your actions and expressions, the focus of your priorities over other concerns.
Your failure to conceive of the possibility some people actually do judge you based on your thoughts and actions defining a value for you, and as importantly your thoughtlessness and inactions for things you do not value is a serious flaw in your perception of the world.
Does it deflate wages? Yes and know, depends on the industry. Take fruit pickers.. most Americans (or Europeans) would not want to do that job, especially at minimum wage. Immigrants would. But why not raise the wages to a level that would make Americans want the job.. well sure, but add a few dollars on each fruit/veggy you consume then.
How about other industries.. tech? Wages here are higher then ever.. and more and more immigrants come. Why? Cause Americans/Europeans dont have the skill set, so you need Asians and others to pick up the slack.
Also have to factor in cost of living. A programmer in India might earn 1/4 of what a programmer in California or Texas does, but the cost of living is also massively smaller in India vs California.
So it is all relative... do wages get depressed.. sure but higher wages has consequences as well depending on the job.
"Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run, according to an authoritative study released Wednesday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
The 500-page academic tome is supposed to be the final word about the fiscal and economic effects of mass immigration, and its findings challenge some long-held assumptions of Washington policymakers that immigration is an unqualified benefit."
Mass immigration costs govt. $296 billion a year: National Academy of Sciences - Washington Times
Contrary to the talking points of some major political parties, immigration has been found to have a negative fiscal impact for most Americans.
Is it time for us to rethink our immigration policy?
Thoughts?
Comments?
Let's just shoot them all.....wait, that's how we made all those refugees seeking a new place to live in the first place.
1) Immigration should never be confused with refugees... a lot of people do that.
2) Immigration is beneficial, but also has its negatives.
Does it deflate wages? Yes and know, depends on the industry. Take fruit pickers.. most Americans (or Europeans) would not want to do that job, especially at minimum wage. Immigrants would. But why not raise the wages to a level that would make Americans want the job.. well sure, but add a few dollars on each fruit/veggy you consume then.
How about other industries.. tech? Wages here are higher then ever.. and more and more immigrants come. Why? Cause Americans/Europeans dont have the skill set, so you need Asians and others to pick up the slack.
Also have to factor in cost of living. A programmer in India might earn 1/4 of what a programmer in California or Texas does, but the cost of living is also massively smaller in India vs California.
So it is all relative... do wages get depressed.. sure but higher wages has consequences as well depending on the job.
When did we do that?
I've been posting intuitively for years what this report now empirically states."Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run, according to an authoritative study released Wednesday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
The 500-page academic tome is supposed to be the final word about the fiscal and economic effects of mass immigration, and its findings challenge some long-held assumptions of Washington policymakers that immigration is an unqualified benefit."
Mass immigration costs govt. $296 billion a year: National Academy of Sciences - Washington Times
Contrary to the talking points of some major political parties, immigration has been found to have a negative fiscal impact for most Americans.
Is it time for us to rethink our immigration policy?
Thoughts?
Comments?
70% of illegal immigrants get on welfare when they get to The United States.
When we made the ME into a complete, lawless crudhole.
This is just more fallout of the old West vs. Russia fight we've been doing by proxy for some time, and then our involvement in the ME which toppled governments and left power vacuums that have been used by terrorist organizations to seize power and spread violence and chaos.
Actions have consequences.
The legal immigration quota needs to be set each year to be equal to the previous year's legal emigration count of natural-born citizens. That would begin to greatly reduce the over-population nightmare that awaits us in 2050, not to mention stave off the riotous disasters that would otherwise occur as we near 2100.
WE (The United States) didn't. The only thing WE are responsible for is childishly believing that if we didn't keep a lid on things, thst they would sort themselves out. WE never went to the ME and tried to, "shoot them all".
Is it just a coincidence that you failed to source your statement?
We certainly have contributed to all of this, for sure. We've been in the ME directly for the past like 15 years and that interventionism has fed the destabilizing mechanisms that have gone on to produce the flood of people trying to get the fudge out.
I mistakenly assumed everyone already knew.
Report: America attracting poor, uneducated immigrants | Washington Examiner
The ME was a ****hole for centuries prior to 2003.
You mistakenly stated something that is not supported, nor can be considered common knowledge.
Of the 62%, 47% comes from school lunch programs.
Source
But profoundly more stable before we started monkeying around in it.
Let's just shoot them all.....wait, that's how we made all those refugees seeking a new place to live in the first place.
Average Americans didn't do this, corrupt government + oil industry directed our military to invade Iraq. Punish them , not average Americans who will have to deal with terrorism and the burden of supporting refugees.
Now, get back to the OP please.
Who's paying for it?
The fact is, most immigrants and illegal aliens get on welfare when they get to The U.S.
We're responsible for the actions of our government on some front. Sure, the majority of us haven't been bombing the piss out of the ME, making it prime breeding ground for terrorists, and leading to the general instability of the region. But our government has been, other's governments have been as well.
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