Basically we have a country of almost 300 million moving to 500 million over the next 40 years,
Not if the anti-immigrationists get their way.
I am reading that the reason Europe is rejecting the European Constitution is not so much that they don't want a lot of Turks moving in as cheap labor, which they don't, but even more, they don't want a lot of Poles and other Eastern Europeans moving in as cheap labor, because the Poles and other Eastern Europeans are skilled labor, as well as cheap labor, so it's scaring the labor unions.
Seems like they ought to feel the opposite -- in this country, why fear cheap labor of any stripe, whether it be unskilled chea labor or skilled labor?
The only reason to be afraid is if you think that the economic pie can only be sliced into a limited number of slices, and after that, the ones who didn't get a slice of pie do without.
This is what I ramble on about when I talk about "zero sum games." Business owners know that the more you produce at lower cost, the more you can produce because your goods are easier to sell. In other words, wealth creation is NOT a zero sum game. |
