Haven’t yammered on about this issue for a while – but it is time to revisit it.
As everyone knows, I assert that national wealth is only what we make, mine and grow. Tangible goods that allow human beings to live – the more you have, the richer you are. Its the difference between being in a besieged city and having a stack of treasury notes or a stack of pancakes; who, then, is the rich man? In and around our immigration debate – legal and illegal – what we’re not getting is any discussion of what we’re trying to accomplish.
The pro-immigration types are telling us that we must have immigrants to compete in a global market. And there is some logic in this – if India has A Brilliant Scientist then it would be nice if the USA could poach A Brilliant Scientist. You know, like all the physicists we picked up from Europe prior to WWII. This is a “no duh” situation. But are we really doing that? Who are we really getting? A lot of people have dug into the H1B database (which I’m confident they’ll try to make classified so we can’t read it any longer) and found stuff like this:
Fast and Friendly seems to need a lot of foreign employees…to manage convenience stores. Which is an important job – we Americans do depend on our convenience stores – but it doesn’t seem, you know?, crucial to the global success of the United States. And that is before we start thinking it over and realize that a lot of companies are clearly becoming visa mills…and I’ll bet a lot of these “employees” are paying for the privilege and using it as the merest means to skip the immigration line…you know, once in under any sort of legal status it gets hard for us to get them out again.
One thing I’m not seeing in these applications for H1B is things like “farmer”, “miner”, “welder”…you know, people who would actually contribute to increasing American wealth. I mean, we do still have mines and farms and right now they’re beating the bushes looking for welders. But not a lot of H1Bs for these. Why not? Why are our H1Bs for tech workers and, as we can see here, low-rent retail? The claim is that we only do this because out of 340 million Americans we couldn’t find a single person to fill the position and so we had no choice but to import someone.
Sorry, that is just a lie. I get it – there really are some first rate people out there that American corporations would like to hire but the H1B program, whatever it was intended for, has just become a means of importing cheap labor…and likely includes a series of scams designed to rip off the system. It is clearly time to massive reform the H1B system to ensure that there really is a search for American talent and only after that search proves fruitless do we bring in a foreigner…with a proviso that if a foreigner is a stand-out brilliant engineer or doctor or some other solid, scientific discipline we bring them in just because its smart to have as many such as you can get.
And it is also time for us to start getting back to making, mining and growing things. We need to reconfigure the American economy to make it welcoming of the hard worker…the person who is willing to get dirty to make things, mine things and grow things. And in that, maybe we will have to import some foreigners because, lets face it, some Americans are downright lazy (it is a disease of wealth). But however we manage it, we must get back to a productive America…an America that once again builds wealth from the ground up. And, side note on this: if we become a productive America again, then nobody is really going to fuss about foreigners moving in…its the difference between getting an additional factory worker rather than just a lower-wage replacement coder.
Blogs For Victory 
I would have to quote the entire article. Everything in it is true, and important.
We Can Never Know How Evil These People Were
It is a crucial thing to understand: these people are not just people who make mistakes. We all make mistakes. But what people like Stalin and Hitler – and Obama and Clinton – did wasn’t mistakes. It was evil. Wrong. Without the slightest justification or merit. To be sure, there are degrees of evil but wrong is wrong no matter how large or small the act. And the author is right: we can never know the full depth of what they did…documents were destroyed (or never written), lies were spread so far and effectively that it is hard to sift out the truth…and for the individual actors we can’t know just how directly any of them were involved in the actual evil acts…was it a direct order, or just a wink and a nudge?
But we still have to try to understand who they are and what they did…the lessons of history must be learned.
Unlike the Democrat base, these men are true ideologues, committed to the actual political system of the Left. They play the game of Identity Politics, understanding that their base will never see past personality and ISSUES but their commitment is to governance based on collectivism and the consolidation of power in the hands of elites, creating top-down governance from a massively powerful Central Authority.
I don’t know if it is a clear-cut commitment solely to the philosophy of Leftist governance or how much of it includes the craving for power. I imagine it is an amalgam of the two. Obama blurted out the political agenda of “fundamentally transforming” the United States, while Clinton was probably less the ideologue and more about ego-driven lust for power. (In his case, just general lust.)
But both callously subscribed to the maxim that the end justifies the means, and neither was constrained by concerns of truth or justice, much less the benefit of the nation. Obama worked from a bone-deep familial hatred for the United States and a desire to change it or even destroy it, while Clinton just wanted the status and the power and saw the Left as the means to get what he wanted. I think Obama genuinely hated the values upon which the nation was formed, while Clinton just found them inconvenient.
I saw a comment on another site the other day that said Trump has accomplished more during the transition than Biden accomplished in 4 years, especially in the area of international diplomacy. I hope that’s a harbinger of what’s to come. There’s a lot of damage to be undone.
There’s a lot of damage to be undone.
You bet there is. Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd explains some of this damage: (emphasis mine)
“The crisis was to get the Biden Administration (and Kamala) re-elected. So, they went on binge spending. They borrowed from the future to try to ensure they won.
They did it two ways: They hired massive amounts of government personnel to float the economy, and they also did illegal immigration.
We are thinking it was 10 million to 15 million illegal immigrants that came in the last four years. The majority of the illegal immigrants came in the last two years. That stimulated the economy and raised the velocity of money as those people were given money.
All the NGO’s that facilitated the illegal immigration also got money, and that stimulated the economy. This deficit added $2 trillion, and that was unproductive assets. So, we borrowed from the future to create more government jobs and imported unprecedented amounts of illegal immigrants that don’t add to the economy.
That’s what we have, and President Trump’s policies are going to reverse all that sugar juice. There are going to be mass deportations and reduced government spending.
That short term juice is going away, and it was not sustainable anyway. The bond markets are revolting, and that could not have gone on much longer.”
But it was not just massive money printing and debt creation that hid how bad the real economy was, it was very crooked data. Dowd says,
“We also had bureaucratic incompetence or fraud or whatever you want to call it. They were padding the non-farm payroll numbers to the tune of 1.25 million jobs..
If you look at the chart, which we don’t have here, it’s insane.
It’s one of the biggest misses between reality and estimates we have ever seen.
It’s a seven-sigma event. It’s 1.25 million jobs. It’s already started downward revisions…
The 3rd quarter GDP of 3% will be revised down, and when we get . . . the data in February, there will be more GDP economic revisions down. . . . The capital markets made bad decisions on this data. The Fed made bad decisions on this data, and corporations made bad decisions on this data. The price tag is coming due in 2025. Not only that, but we have a slowing economy across the globe…
The amount of foreign assets in our stock market has never been higher, and this is all going to reverse. The price will be paid in 2025. . . .What’s coming is coming. It’s how low do we go, and when do the animal spirits kick in? So, there is pain coming, and it’s up to the Trump Administration to get all their policies enacted. Then we have a hope and a prayer coming out the other side that we will be way better off.
While we are (rightly) excoriating the Complicit Agenda Media for their energetic propaganda, we have not yet held them accountable for their wholly unforgivable coverup of the economic shell games played by the Left.
Where were the articles pointing out that the much-touted “job gains” were mostly due to the government hiring people to fill unnecessary jobs? Where was the reporting on the role government-funded NGOs were complicit in flouting federal law in enabling illegal immigration?
I’d like to see, if not on Day One (though it would be wonderful to have it all crashing down at the same time):
(1) Every newly promoted bureaucrat, with the intention of burrowing him or her deeply enough to make the position protected, either fired or put back to the level he or she was at on July 1, 2024. It’s an arbitrary date, just an effort to predate the “burrowing” effort.
(2) Every new government hire in the last four years required to reapply, allowing for evaluation of the position and the need for the employee—-a need that would probably not exist as all federal agencies are dramatically reduced in size and scope and returned to their original charters, and hopefully moved out of the Beltway.
(3) Every single NGO that contributed in any way to enabling illegal immigration be dismantled immediately, and possibly indicted for conspiracy to violate federal law
(4) Every person involved in padding the job numbers and massaging the economic figures fired immediately for incompetence or indicted for conspiracy to commit fraud. If the massive accounting firm Arthur Andersen could be indicted for its various accounting violations and aid in the Enron fraud, certainly the accountants doing even worse for the feds can be held accountable (no pun intended).