http://www.newburyportnews.com/puopinion/local_story_076132919?keyword=secondarystory+page=1
Here is the Beck video he is discussing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5871651411393887069
2007-03-18 07:20:35 · 9 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
i read it and i must say i have to agree with him. some people just don't understand the word illegal. illegals are destroying this country that our ancestors helped build. and we Americans today are trying our hardest to keep it going. if it keeps going the way it is, there will be nothing in the system for people our age to retire on.
2007-03-18 09:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dar immigration is a good thing for America.When I read America is one of the most welcoming countries Immigration wise compared to any other country on earth. America is a generous country it takes in kids of illegal aliens with this illegal aliens have gotten entitlements beyond and above to what any other country will offer. We pay for their births. We ensure their kids have an education- we also provide ESL free of charge to their kids. If the illegals thought they were getting such a bad deal from America what I seen no one is in any hurry to leave. I do think it's wrong for one country to dominate a huge mass flow of people here. I understand there are problems there when I start looking at other countries who have it 100 times worst being left behind simply from a worker in Mexico with a job will enter America to acquire better wages.. I wonder what about people tore apart by war who have lost everything they had? They had to resettle into refuge camps not for weeks or months but years. Mexico has a ruling class along with their wealth have no intention of making the country better.
2007-03-18 08:54:31 · answer #2 · answered by Zoe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, and it makes you wonder, Bush had two terms with most of that time a majority in the congress, yet nothing was done to solve the problem. I am beginning to think that immigration is all about big business having access to low wage labor.
2007-03-18 10:14:46 · answer #3 · answered by cimra 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO. At least in California, ILLEGAL immigration is already bankrupting our educational, medical, and prison systems.
When speaking about this subject, too many people refuse to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration. I have nothing against legal immigration.
2007-03-18 07:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not. The legal citizens of this country will have to leave by the thousands to actually find work. Thank you Mr. Gates.
2007-03-18 08:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Julia B 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, the immigration numbers are NOT sustainable.
US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.
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Job growth over the last five years is the weakest on record. The US economy came up more than 7 million jobs short of keeping up with population growth. That's one good reason for controlling immigration. An economy that cannot keep up with population growth should not be boosting population with heavy rates of legal and illegal immigration.
Over the past five years the US economy experienced a net job loss in goods producing activities. The entire job growth was in service- providing activities--primarily credit intermediation, health care and social assistance, waiters, waitresses and bartenders, and state and local government.
US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.
The declines in some manufacturing sectors have more in common with a country undergoing saturation bombing during war than with a super- economy that is "the envy of the world."
* Communications equipment lost 43% of its workforce. Semiconductors and electronic components lost 37% of its workforce.
* The workforce in computers and electronic products declined 30%.
* Electrical equipment and appliances lost 25% of its employees.
* The workforce in motor vehicles and parts declined 12%.
* Furniture and related products lost 17% of its jobs.
* Apparel manufacturers lost almost half of the work force.
* Employment in textile mills declined 43%.
* Paper and paper products lost one-fifth of its jobs.
* The work force in plastics and rubber products declined by 15%.
* Even manufacturers of beverages and tobacco products experienced a 7% shrinkage in jobs.
* The knowledge jobs that were supposed to take the place of lost manufacturing jobs in the globalized "new economy" never appeared.
* The information sector lost 17% of its jobs, with the telecommunications work force declining by 25%.
* Even wholesale and retail trade lost jobs.
* Despite massive new accounting burdens imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley, accounting and bookkeeping employment shrank by 4%.
* Computer systems design and related lost 9% of its jobs.
* Today, there are 209,000 fewer managerial and supervisory jobs than 5 years ago.
In five years, the US economy only created 70,000 jobs in architecture and engineering, many of which are clerical. Little wonder engineering enrollments are shrinking. There are no jobs for graduates. The talk about engineering shortages is absolute ignorance. There are several hundred thousand American engineers who are unemployed and have been for years. No student wants a degree that is nothing but a ticket to a soup line. Many engineers have written to me that they cannot even get Wal-Mart jobs because their education makes them over-qualified.
Offshore outsourcing and offshore production have left the US awash with unemployment among the highly educated. The low measured rate of unemployment does not include discouraged workers.
Labor arbitrage has made the unemployment rate less and less a meaningful indicator. In the past unemployment resulted mainly from turnover in the labor force and recession. Recoveries pulled people back into jobs.
Unemployment benefits were intended to help people over the down time in the cycle when workers were laid off. Today the unemployment is permanent as entire occupations and industries are wiped out by labor arbitrage as corporations replace their American employees with foreign ones.
Economists who look beyond political press releases estimate the US unemployment rate to be between 7% and 8.5%. There are now hundreds of thousands of Americans who will never recover their investment in their university education.
Unless the BLS is falsifying the data or businesses are reporting the opposite of the facts, the US is experiencing a job depression. Most economists refuse to acknowledge the facts, because they endorsed globalization. It was a win-win situation, they said.
They were wrong.
At a time when America desperately needs the voices of educated people as a counterweight to the disinformation that emanates from the Bush administration and its supporters, economists have discredited themselves. This is especially true for "free market economists" who foolishly assumed that international labor arbitrage was an example of free trade that was benefiting Americans. Where is the benefit when employment in US export industries and import- competitive industries is shrinking? After decades of struggle to regain credibility, free market economics is on the verge of another wipeout.
No sane economist can possibly maintain that a deplorable record of merely 1,054,000 net new private sector jobs over five years is an indication of a healthy economy. The total number of private sector jobs created over the five year period is 500,000 jobs less than one year's legal and illegal immigration! (In a December 2005 Center for Immigration Studies report based on the Census Bureau's March 2005 Current Population Survey, Steven Camarota writes that there were 7,9 million new immigrants between January 2000 and March 2005.)
The economics profession has failed America. It touts a meaningless number while joblessness soars. Lazy journalists at the New York Times simply rewrite the Bush administration's press releases.
On February 10 the Commerce Department released a record US trade deficit in goods and services for 2005--$726 billion. The US deficit in Advanced Technology Products reached a new high.
Offshore production for home markets and jobs outsourcing has made the US highly dependent on foreign provided goods and services, while simultaneously reducing the export capability of the US economy. It is possible that there might be no exchange rate at which the US can balance its trade.
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All these facts from Paul Craig Roberts who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.
Reality is a great teacher when it comes to this subject.
2007-03-18 07:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by Toe the line 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Si USA can handle another 100 million more
2007-03-18 07:54:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
No.....I knew that 40 years ago.
2007-03-18 10:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What this video if you want to find out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWKx0PerkE
2007-03-18 07:27:37 · answer #9 · answered by mconder 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋