NUance Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 On 3/16/2021 at 3:14 PM, BigRedBuster said: True, there are other benefits too. a). people who grow up in a place like China tend to be much more rules oriented, so, it's cheap labor and they don't have the employee problems in other places. b). If I were to be moved to a country to live to manage a factory, I'd rather move to a society like China than to one like Honduras. So, it's easier to get employees to move or travel there. There is one other reason. China has way more raw material resources than central America. Also, the Chinese gov't cooperates with the private sector to create jobs. By contrast, governments of Central and South America have a history of not being cooperative with private industry. Just look at Venezuela where they nationalized the oil industry and several other industries during the past 10 or 15 years. LINK 2 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 1 hour ago, NUance said: Also, the Chinese gov't cooperates with the private sector to create jobs. By contrast, governments of Central and South America have a history of not being cooperative with private industry. Just look at Venezuela where they nationalized the oil industry and several other industries during the past 10 or 15 years. LINK One of our suppliers had a plant in Mexico years ago. All of a sudden the government decided the plant was there's and took it. 1 Link to comment
NUance Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 33 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: One of our suppliers had a plant in Mexico years ago. All of a sudden the government decided the plant was there's and took it. Exactly. What company would open a plant in Mexico after seeing that? 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 Interesting OPED on immigration. The OPED asks - Is Biden setting Harris up for failure by basically making her the immigration/boarder czar. Kind of like Trump setting Pence up for failure by putting him over the covid response. https://theweek.com/articles/973921/biden-setting-harris-fail Beginning of the article Quote If President Biden is grooming Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor, he has a funny way of showing it. Biden on Wednesday announced that Harris will be the administration's point person on immigration issues amid a fresh round of public attention on a so-called "surge" of migrants at the southern border of the United States. Her task is twofold: to strengthen America's relationships with the Latin American countries that are the prime source of migration, and to address the reasons migrants leave those countries. "I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this," Biden said. "There is no question that this is a challenging situation," Harris added. Maybe too challenging. Wednesday's announcement creates a notable political hazard for Harris and her ambitions to one day win the White House. Immigration is one of the most notoriously sticky debates in American politics, a test for the vice president that offers more opportunities for failure than success. End of the article Quote "Biden needs to be accountable," Joe Enriquez Henry, vice president of the Midwestern region of League of United Latin American Citizens, told Politico in July. Biden did win the Latino vote against Trump, but by a smaller margin than expected. His campaign did a notoriously poor job of reaching out to those voters, but it's not out of the question that the Obama-era deportations remained a factor. While there is no sign that Biden plans to carry out deportations on a similar scale, Harris must surely be aware of the potential to alienate a key constituency she'll need for her own White House run. The GOP is ready and waiting with criticisms, of course. "If President Biden's intent was to show he's taking the crisis at our border seriously, he's actually done the complete opposite by selecting V.P. Harris to lead on this issue," Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, tweeted on Wednesday. "He's completely trivialized this issue by putting someone in charge that flat out, just doesn't care." So Harris won't be able to hide. To succeed, she will have to do what no American leader before her has done and master the politics of immigration. Her presidential ambitions may be hanging in the balance. Link to comment
SECHusker Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 They are getting ready to pass immigration reform. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 There are lots of humanitarian reasons why immigration should be made safe and easy. Here's a very good economic reason. If we are going to continue to grow the economy for lots of people, we need people to employ. His last sentence is a no brainer. It's just stupid that we have manufacturing all across the country that can't find enough workers and we prevent people who WANT to come here and work and build a good life from coming. 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: His last sentence is a no brainer. It's just stupid that we have manufacturing all across the country that can't find enough workers and we prevent people who WANT to come here and work and build a good life from coming. But they were told these people come from "s#!thole countries" so what are they to do? Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Just read that the presumed Covid Baby Boom didn't happen, either. Couples forced to quarantine together apparently didn't use the time to fornicate, and perhaps took a darker look at procreation because the U.S. population had nearly 500,000 fewer births in 2020, and its slowest population growth in 120 years. 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 16 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: Just read that the presumed Covid Baby Boom didn't happen, either. Couples forced to quarantine together apparently didn't use the time to fornicate, and perhaps took a darker look at procreation because the U.S. population had nearly 500,000 fewer births in 2020, and its slowest population growth in 120 years. I tried! 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 16 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: Just read that the presumed Covid Baby Boom didn't happen, either. Couples forced to quarantine together apparently didn't use the time to fornicate, and perhaps took a darker look at procreation because the U.S. population had nearly 500,000 fewer births in 2020, and its slowest population growth in 120 years. Forget the "baby boom". I'm curious to see what the divorce rate will look like for the past year... 2 Link to comment
RedDenver Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 On 4/27/2021 at 11:30 AM, Guy Chamberlin said: Just read that the presumed Covid Baby Boom didn't happen, either. Couples forced to quarantine together apparently didn't use the time to fornicate, and perhaps took a darker look at procreation because the U.S. population had nearly 500,000 fewer births in 2020, and its slowest population growth in 120 years. It'll be interesting to see if the birth rates jump in 2021 after the pandemic is over. Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, RedDenver said: I agree with this. No reason those folks shouldn’t jump to the front of the line for citizenship if they served in the military. And be comfortable living in the US while waiting citizenship papers without fear of deportation. 5 Link to comment
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