ONCE AGAIN
Once again one can't ignore "this immigration thing" which the Republicans rode to the White House: it is most bizarre. If one were to read the Wall Street Journal only casually, one would quickly understand that immigration is and always has been America's key to success. We don't have enough engineers to run our tech industry and we don't have enough labor to turn pigs into pork.
The Wall Street Journal is not some leftwing rag spewing discontent. One interesting problem that keeps occurring in its pages is the issue of dwindling numbers in China and Japan - - for instance. It is clear that a country can not sustain itself economically with a dwindling number of citizens, not only in production but in consuming. What many do not realize, or refuse to, is that a modern economy can not sustain itself with a diminishing population.
This basic attribute of modern capitalism will eventually kill us all as the planet runs out of the means to sustain it, but in the meantime, in order to prosper, a society has to increase consumption not decrease it. If you don't have the people to buy the stuff you make, you won't make it and the people who make it will not have employment.
People without anything want to come to the United States; they do not flock to China or Japan who need the employable very much. We have an "immigration problem" for the very simple reason that we don't have an "immigration problem", but we have found a way to sell "the immigration problem" to the American public. This is possible only because the American public has no knowledge of what is happening beyond their own ken and don't want to know apparently. We are all immigrants and if you still want to consider America as the greatest country in the world you have to admit that immigrants did it and are still doing it. None of our proposed efforts to throw millions of people out of this country makes any sense and it will become apparent rather quickly if current promises are fulfilled.
Richard E H Phelps II
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