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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Moominoid who wrote (7146)12/4/2002 10:43:08 PM
From: fattyRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
>>It's an obvious benefit to the US to attract the best and the brightest in the world, to avoid stagnation of Empire, like England after 1900.

That's true. Such policy will only make rich countries richer and poor countries poorer.

>Australia is very open to employing Americans. You can become a citizen in 2 years. You don't even need a job to go there if you are skilled. So if as one poster suggested there are better opportunities there, they are welcome to go get them. Often one hears American and Canadian accents in interviews with executives etc. on Australian radio.

Australia and US pretty much have the same standard of livings so it's like equal exchange. What is unfair is that people coming from countries like India and China are doing their native country a big disfavor by immigrating. Their country need their skills and talents and yet all they can think of is enriching themselves. The US have the Peace Corp that sends out thousands and thousands volunteers to help these poor countries and yet their best and brightest just want to settle in the US to enjoy a middle class life. Seems to me these people have neither the ambition to get rich back home nor the soul to help out their native people.

It's true that the US is an immigration country. But the earlier immigrants came here under a much different circumstance. They came for reasons like famine, war, political persecutions, religious freedom etc etc. The immigrants of late came mostly for economic freedom.

Don't read me wrong. I think the US is better off to have these people and I'm not worried that they'd take away my job. It just saddens me to think of what they give up and left behind for their economic enrichment.
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