Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Vast numbers of Americans (myself included) see no reason to take a chance on there being enough jobs in future...Automation does kill jobs but it creates more jobs than it eliminates in most industries. A study by Deloitte found found 800,000 jobs were eliminated as the result of AI and other automation technologies. But get this: 3.5 million new jobs were created as well, and those jobs paid on average nearly $13,000 more per year than the ones that were lost.There is a 6 million job surplus now and that is likely to grow to 24 million in the next decade as the workforce shrinks do to baby boomers exiting the workforce and low birthrates. There is plenty of room for growth in America.That was a fine sentiment in 1903...The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus (November 2, 1883)
A bronze plaque with the words of the poem "The New Colossus" raised on it. The 1903 bronze plaque located in the Statue of Liberty's museum.
NPS
The population of the US was then 76,000,000...
There was still plenty of land to be had...
There was a job for anyone who wanted one...
Today, however...
The population of the US is 330,000,000...
The land has all been parceled out...
We struggle to keep our own employed...
We struggle to provide educational and medical and social services for our own one-third of a billion souls...
Never mind 11-12,000,000 Illegal Aliens now present upon United States soil without our express prior consent...
Never mind the millions more invaders who will flood across our borders, should we be stupid enough to allow it...
That plaque represented a fine sentiment, in its time...
Unfortunately, it's time is over... those sentiments are no longer practical... best to hang-up a 'No Vacancy' sign.
Perhaps it's time to declare a two- or four-year moratorium on all immigration to the United States.
We should not open our borders nor should we seal them. We need more legal immigrants and we need workable immigration laws and policies.
Automation could kill 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030
A company might automate and eliminate thousands of factory floor workers but by doing so, they increase profitability making possible investments in new products and plants.
Best to eject the 11-12,000,000 invaders now, and de-incentivize the millions more who are considering crossing our borders...
Best to do it now, while there's a still a POTUS agreeable to such an approach, and a SCOTUS and other court appointees to firm it up.