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In reply to the discussion: Free traders will never answer this... if immigrants are needed here... [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Unemployment is 11%. Economic growth is near nil. The USA is doing better, economically, at the moment, than much of the world. You did notice this recent economic crisis, yes?
And no, I think that your "solution" is stupid hyperbole. Governments are not in charge of determining what countries people who emigrate go to; neither is there any reason to expect reciprocity. You have a very minimal understanding of economics; you don't understand how immigration works; you don't understand how outsourcing works; you have no grounds or basis for even having an opinion on the subject, as ignorant as you are. So you're going to require that India, or the Philippines, or Mexico, outsource work to the US? Have you had a look at wage differentials? Standard of living? GDP per capita? Average incomes? Western companies that outsource call centres or software development to India do so because an Indian worker earns about $8000 a year. An American would starve on $8000 a year. In India it's a reasonable living. Of course the governments of poor countries with low standards of living are going to encourage investment and development and welcome new jobs; why shouldn't they? Demonising some poor bastard in Punjab working in a call centre to feed his family because "dey took ar jerbs!" is just blind stupidity; blaming undocumented immigrants working for a buck an hour picking apples and sleeping 12 to a room in a shack for the travails of unemployed Americans looking for non-agricultural work is also stupidity.