What do you think about a merit based immigration policy for the United States? Merit is the only system that I know of that is really fair. That is what this blog is all about.
The cry that we keep hearing is that, "We need more immigrants to help grow our economy". Is that really an honest statement? I don't think so. Why don't we hear people claiming that those immigrants should stay home in their own countries and help their economies grow there? Why don't we hear people talking about things like "quality of life" and the "median family income"? It is because our population is so stupid that they have no understanding of economic or most anything else. What we are now doing is letting in immigrants who end up well below the median family income level and thus "lowering" our median family income. It is the same for median family net worth. We hear people talking all the time about Japan and the fact that their economy has not been growing like it did in the past. Is that bad? Most people think so, but not me! The fact that the population of Japan has gone down "more" than their GNP means that, on an individual basis, the Japanese are richer! Further, they now have a better quality of life. They don't need more roads or bridges because they don't have more people.
Do you think that the people of Los Angeles or New York City have a better quality of life because they have more immigrants? I don't think so. How about Minneapolis? It used to be a nice clean and safe city, but it is going down hill due to the many poor low skilled immigrants that they have let in. In the whole United States, over half of all immigrants are on welfare and it is worse in Minneapolis. If we want to feed poor immigrants, it would be a lot cheaper to send them food back in their old countries. A house in most of the countries where immigrants come from cost about 10% of what a house would cost here. Do we need more garbage and sewage here? Does more make our quality of life better? Look at our schools. Do you think that schools with a higher percentage of immigrants are better than schools with fewer immigrants? That is an easy one. You know the answer.
What we need to do is to be more honest and think about our won children first rather than immigrants from around the world. From my prior blogs, you know that I think that over breeding by most poor countries is their main problem and the cure is not letting them immigrate here. They need to clean up the mess that they have made rather than abandoning the mess that they have made. As a parents, we make our kids clean up their rooms because they are the ones who made the mess in the first place. Why is that not good enough for all these poor immigrants?
Most of the world does not have enough doctors, yet we plan on letting in more doctors from these poor countries who do not have enough doctors in the first place. Do you think that "cherry picking" the most productive people from poor counties is moral? What we need to do is to focus on our own quality of life and the median family income and make sure that our political decisions address those objectives. When you start hearing the talking heads on TV using terms like Quality of Life and Median Family Income, you will know that we are finally getting onto the right track.
PS--The terrorist attack in NYC could have been prevented had we had in place a merit based immigration policy. We used to let in immigrants when we had open land available for homesteading, but we do not have any more open land. We used to give 160 acres of land to a family of immigrants, now worth over a million dollars. Times have changed and we need to change our thinking about immigration. The terrorist was a "black" squirrel who was the product of "gray" squirrels. What are we not doing more about "gray" squirrels?
The cry that we keep hearing is that, "We need more immigrants to help grow our economy". Is that really an honest statement? I don't think so. Why don't we hear people claiming that those immigrants should stay home in their own countries and help their economies grow there? Why don't we hear people talking about things like "quality of life" and the "median family income"? It is because our population is so stupid that they have no understanding of economic or most anything else. What we are now doing is letting in immigrants who end up well below the median family income level and thus "lowering" our median family income. It is the same for median family net worth. We hear people talking all the time about Japan and the fact that their economy has not been growing like it did in the past. Is that bad? Most people think so, but not me! The fact that the population of Japan has gone down "more" than their GNP means that, on an individual basis, the Japanese are richer! Further, they now have a better quality of life. They don't need more roads or bridges because they don't have more people.
Do you think that the people of Los Angeles or New York City have a better quality of life because they have more immigrants? I don't think so. How about Minneapolis? It used to be a nice clean and safe city, but it is going down hill due to the many poor low skilled immigrants that they have let in. In the whole United States, over half of all immigrants are on welfare and it is worse in Minneapolis. If we want to feed poor immigrants, it would be a lot cheaper to send them food back in their old countries. A house in most of the countries where immigrants come from cost about 10% of what a house would cost here. Do we need more garbage and sewage here? Does more make our quality of life better? Look at our schools. Do you think that schools with a higher percentage of immigrants are better than schools with fewer immigrants? That is an easy one. You know the answer.
What we need to do is to be more honest and think about our won children first rather than immigrants from around the world. From my prior blogs, you know that I think that over breeding by most poor countries is their main problem and the cure is not letting them immigrate here. They need to clean up the mess that they have made rather than abandoning the mess that they have made. As a parents, we make our kids clean up their rooms because they are the ones who made the mess in the first place. Why is that not good enough for all these poor immigrants?
Most of the world does not have enough doctors, yet we plan on letting in more doctors from these poor countries who do not have enough doctors in the first place. Do you think that "cherry picking" the most productive people from poor counties is moral? What we need to do is to focus on our own quality of life and the median family income and make sure that our political decisions address those objectives. When you start hearing the talking heads on TV using terms like Quality of Life and Median Family Income, you will know that we are finally getting onto the right track.
PS--The terrorist attack in NYC could have been prevented had we had in place a merit based immigration policy. We used to let in immigrants when we had open land available for homesteading, but we do not have any more open land. We used to give 160 acres of land to a family of immigrants, now worth over a million dollars. Times have changed and we need to change our thinking about immigration. The terrorist was a "black" squirrel who was the product of "gray" squirrels. What are we not doing more about "gray" squirrels?
