Originally posted by GVChamp
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What about the poor who want to go to the US and make some money? Do you clean your own latrine? Do you know electrical works, plumbing, construction, fixing your car, mowing the lawn? If you know all these, then you'll do just fine. The vast majority of people don't, this is where those immigrants come in. What I proposed is a low-skilled work permit that doesn't provide citizenship, is of fixed tenure, to those people from your neighbouring countries or my neighbouring country Bangladesh. This way US won't have the headache of illegal immigrants sneaking in the country, and the President will tweet a little less. Make money giving out work permits, then use the same for infrastructure development. No need to use taxpayers money to build a wall to keep immigrants out. Right now, all I see is hot air from the current administration. NO ONE can stop illegal immigration, because economics trump every other reason. I know for a fact that your diary and meat industry hires a lot of illegal immigrants because the native population with college degrees doesn't want to clean cowdung, even though the hourly rate is better than what Starbucks offer.
Stop immigration and China will definitely eat your lunch. All those people with work visas, working in the US, the day they find US has closed its doors, they will move to China. And China has the money, it will hand-out lucrative job offers. People go where money is. Think of the damage it would to your country. And why just China, India has a lot going on currently and in the next 10 years, the economy will run on full steam.
In the 90s, people in India were crazy about going to America. Anybody with basic knowledge of Unix commands would fly to the US, a job waiting. Then there were mainframe jobs. There still is craze, but a lot have subsided. Working for an Indian start-up, a person with 10-12 years of work experience can earn anywhere between 25-30 Lacs annually, which is ~ 50K USD. My Engineering batchmate and a good friend who works in Microsoft (Hyderabad) earns close to $110K per year. Where is the incentive then of going to US. With that kind of money, people here have a very good lifestyle. Earlier I used to see US citizens arriving in India with a short term visa and then going back, now I see US/EU citizens staying in India for 5+ years. India is creating jobs for its own citizens and for the global population. Niche jobs. I find it very nice to work alongside citizens of other countries in India. That is a good thing. And nobody, will find me ever saying an American has stolen my IT job, because I believe in my own skill-set. If I feel I'm falling behind, I'll upgrade myself with a technology 10 years into the future.
And how is communism a failure? Russia is still standing, isn't it? America has made China rich, so?
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