OK, maybe this should be called the Txdot "Post #25 in Blackman's Trump Economy" club. I agree with most of Txdot's points, although I believe two or three are more benign than he does.Originally Posted by txdot-guy
- Started a massive worker deportation program.
Txdot's first problem with the Trump economy are the deportations. Well, duh, yeah. Illegal immigrants account for about 5% of the U.S. workforce. You get rid of them overnight in a tight job market and there will be consequences.
Furthermore, if, in the words of Howard Lutnick, we bring all those jobs back to America, screwing screws in Iphones, who's going to do them? I'm sure as hell not going to abandon my job and join Lutnick's army. Who's going to toil in the fields, clean the office buildings, do low-skilled construction work? Americans don't want to do this stuff. They'd rather get paid more for easier, higher-skilled work.
Why not convert otherwise law abiding illegal immigrants into guest workers? Places like Singapore and the UAE have lots of guest workers, and they have a higher standard of living than we do. They can all have their own maids! If that comes to America, mine will be big breasted and Cuban or Venezuelan.
And then there are the legal immigrants. We should switch over to a points based system for people who enter the USA on a citizenship path. Admit the scientists, doctors and nurses, mechanics, engineers, etc. And be more generous with the visas. I'm listening to an 8 part podcast on Modi, the Indian prime minister, and one of the people interviewed is a tech titan who created companies in India worth billions. He originally came to the USA on a student visa, studied at Wharton, then got a job with Microsoft. His intention was to work there a few years, then go to Silicon Valley and create a startup. But he couldn't get a visa to continue with Microsoft. So instead of starting billion dollar companies and providing lots of good jobs in the USA, he's doing it in India.
There are an average of 1.6 children born to each female in the USA. If there's no immigration, the population of the country will shrink from 340 million to about 225 million by century's end. That will have adverse affects on the economy. Given the shell game we've got going to fund entitlements, who's going to pay for social security and Medicare with a declining population? And this would affect national security too. The only way the USA is going to stay ahead of China as the world's #1 economic and military power is if its population grows (or declines less) than China's.
Trump says he wants more immigration of highly skilled people, but then he just lets Slimy Stephen Miller do whatever he wants to do. Which is keep out more of the highly skilled.
