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Business and Immigration
Nov. 17th, 2011 10:04 amA few thoughts on business and immigration:
A) Much is said how America is the most innovative company with the world's best economic environment. We do have a good economic environment, but we rank 23rd in business startups per capita. All the Evil Socialist Fascist Over-there Countries What Talk Funny beat us. The working theory? Health care. In most of the world, one can leave the corporate cube and start a business without worrying about health care costs.
B) Businessweek wonders why Americans won't do dirty jobs. The answer from this grandson of a coal miner is "we will do dirty jobs, you ditz, if you pay us enough!" The use of foreign labor to depress wages goes back to a time before America was independent. What, after all, is a slave or an indentured servant but a special class of cheap labor?
C) A lot of small towns in the Western US are drying up and blowing away. I saw examples of that on my recent trip out west. I also wondered why the town of Dorris, CA, population 939 souls in the middle of nowhere, had a Mexican restaurant. The answer proved to be that Hispanic immigration is saving small western towns.
D) While on the subject of immigration, Russia is seeing emigration at a level not seen since the Bolshevik Revolution. Considering that country's existing demographic crisis, it appears Russia's days as a major power are numbered.
A) Much is said how America is the most innovative company with the world's best economic environment. We do have a good economic environment, but we rank 23rd in business startups per capita. All the Evil Socialist Fascist Over-there Countries What Talk Funny beat us. The working theory? Health care. In most of the world, one can leave the corporate cube and start a business without worrying about health care costs.
B) Businessweek wonders why Americans won't do dirty jobs. The answer from this grandson of a coal miner is "we will do dirty jobs, you ditz, if you pay us enough!" The use of foreign labor to depress wages goes back to a time before America was independent. What, after all, is a slave or an indentured servant but a special class of cheap labor?
C) A lot of small towns in the Western US are drying up and blowing away. I saw examples of that on my recent trip out west. I also wondered why the town of Dorris, CA, population 939 souls in the middle of nowhere, had a Mexican restaurant. The answer proved to be that Hispanic immigration is saving small western towns.
D) While on the subject of immigration, Russia is seeing emigration at a level not seen since the Bolshevik Revolution. Considering that country's existing demographic crisis, it appears Russia's days as a major power are numbered.
