The government created the problem by not only invited 50 million immigrants but gave them special privileges. Including business, education loans, grants and contracts. Native born Americans are denied jobs, business, education. Corporations use slave labor, monopolize industries and get trillions from the government paid for by the American taxpayer. Americans have to pay the billions in welfare, health care, education, prisons to subsidized the 'cheap labor'. Americans have been robbed of their birthright and savings from criminals in both government and business. This is how third world nations are run. Completely void of anything remotely "Libertarian" and personal responsibility.
Ok, let's take a few deep breaths and cool off for a moment.
While our views differ, as far as how we are assigning blame. I think fundamentally we are on a similar page as to the root cause: too much government.
I have to go back to a great-great-great grandmother until I have a Native American ancestor. Most of my family came to the US from Europe in the late 1800s/early 1900s. While born in the US, I consider myself to be the descendant of immigrants. I am not sure where the number 50 million comes from, but I suspect most of the 300 million US citizens, if not immigrants themselves, are descendents of immigrants, many of whom came here after the Revolutionary War. So why are the last 12% to arrive here that is prompting such vitriol?
I think the problem lies not in the people that have come here - these immigrants have as much right to live on this land as any of us whose families arrived here during an earlier time. The problem we have is that we have programs that incentivize reliance on the government to take from some to give to others. As long as there is government, there will always be some who by the use of force or the threat of force, will have part of their wealth stolen from them in the name of the "public good". The recipients of welfare are at least two-fold; the connected class and the dependent class. While not innocent in this scheme, the dependent class are largely scapegoats, most of the animosity for what taxes are funding gets focused on them. Meanwhile, the connected class have collect bloated salaries for their public sector jobs, have $700 billion bail-outs, set regulations that reduce the ability of others to compete, etc.. And most of this welfare that the connected class receives goes largely uncontested - as people are too busy fighting against, for example, "immigrants."
Surely, you can see that imported products and services have done as much to change the US economy, as the last 50 million immigrants. So why are the people that have re-located here, more detestable than the products that are produced elsewhere and brought here.
In order to have jobs for Americans, we need to de-regulate industries and lower taxes. We need to stop subsidizing large businesses, and make it easier for individuals to start businesses that can compete. We need to lower taxes and make it affordable for businesses to conduct their business here.
I have self-employment and I would love to grow my business, but the mandatory insurance, regulations and taxes prevent me from expanding. Looking at what we would need to produce & sell to outweigh the additional overhead, it becomes very apparent that it doesn't make sense to do so, based on how we currently do business. The only way we can grow with a reasonable expectation of preserving our profits as well, as to start importing a similar product produced in China - but if we are importing the product from China we don't need workers here. So our options are: stay small (no jobs created,) import from China (no jobs for Americans created), or try to comply with all of the regulations and grow how we ideally would like, (since we cannot realistically have competitive pricing that covers the additional overhead, this would make us operate at a loss, and we'd quickly be out of business or in deep debt.) The government has made it so that I cannot create jobs, and many others with small businesses are in the same boat. It's not that we don't want to expand and create jobs, it's that the US does not currently have a market that is conducive for many without prior connections, to do so. In my view, getting the government out of the way, is 100% necessary to reverse this.
I've been watching PR, to see how their economy is doing after the reforms under Luis Fortuna. Reducing the size of government and removing barriers for business, seems to have been positive for their economy. I am watching to see if they can keep on that course, now that Fortuna is no longer in office. Does anyone have any on the ground insight on the state of PR now?
