They come and take our jobs away, they lower the wage rates for employment, they crowd the cities and stretch public resources, there are fewer resources and an increasing number of players competing for those resources.

"Our jobs"? Is anybody entitled to a job? If there is any entitlement at all, shouldn't that be based on meritocracy? If I own a business with jobs to give away, I will certainly want the best that I can buy with the lowest amount of wages I can give out. I am in the business of making a profit, NOT running a non-profit charitable organization. A labor market should be just like any other consumer market - free and competitive.

But does that make good business and economic sense? Why does Microsoft employ a majority of their workforce from abroad? Should patriotism, or collective ownership rights take primacy over individual capabilities, merits, differences? Isolationism and protectionism in economics is a recipe for disaster. It also goes against the very fundamental morality of America's constitution and human rights. To dictate to a private businessman who he can and cannot hire is the same thing as dictating to a private homeowner who he can or cannot invite as a guest to his home. Private ownership of property is an inviolable right.

What's the difference between Communism and the concept of collective ownership of American assets if citizenship is the standard of judging who gets the job and who owns what property? Merely a logical extension? Or a real and practical imitation? How can we distinguish Capitalism from Communism?

Low costs of production mean higher profits for businessmen and companies -- who, we oftentimes forget -- are consumers themselves, also investors, risk-takers, business, corporate & income tax-payers, etc.

Companies, stockholders, CEO's get richer with higher profits - that is the nature of a SUCCESSFUL business. Consequently, their spending margins increase on a variety of things. Typically, the more one earns, the more one begins to spend. Profit-making is a right of every private business -- that is the sole purpose for which they exist.

The effects of higher profits and higher spending should invariably ripple across the entire market in time, dragging up the entire society's standard of living. America is a prime example of such dynamics, as opposed to socialist and communist countries like India and China.

Wages for employment should be based organically on such market forces -- not on some perceived entitlement demanded by Unions and other idiots.

Case in eg.: Union of Auto Makers trying to fight to hold on to their "entitlement" wages of $115,000 annually, which have now been brought down to about $89,000 annually. Apparently, this major slash in their wages as auto-makers are forcing them to live "meager" lives! Ofcourse, the ripple effect of such entitlement mentality -- GM is on its way to bankruptcy. Detriot is a ghosttown with the only industry keeping it afloat (the automotive industry) now caught up in heckling with Unions.

That is a cyclical argument. That is the very result of the inhumane and immoral immigration policies. Those laws themselves have created the situation where the new immigrants cannot find cover, comfort and solace unless they are surrounded by clans of their own members -- in ghettos, nonetheless. The ones that wish to leave, that wish to move up in education and careers, cannot because they do not have the legal and societal permissibilities like an SSN, legal ID, or recourse to citizen aid, driver's licenses, etc.

You're living in a fools land if you expect to not compete for resources that always have been limited and are steadily decreasing. The only rational and intelligent solution is to accelerate human acheivement in technology and production, to produce and create new resources or new and efficient methods of gaining/using/spending them. Trying to adopt some kind of population control simply reduces your chances of getting more brains to work on social challenges. Also, population control clearly does NOTHING to produce or create anything new. It may merely slow down the rate at which resources deplete, but it does not change the status quo.

Moreover, increased competition for resources also helps to reveal inefficient systems. They help identify and eliminate waste, unwanted loads, unharmonious systems... the "flowchart" gets streamlined when the pressure to minimize waste is high.

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