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Costs for law enforcement and legal expenses would not need to be included if immigration was not illegal, so I don't see why they should be factored in.
Including American citizens in the cost of illegal immigrants is dishonest.
It is actually honest. You measure what is paid in versus paid out. Many immigrants come with children. Those people need education services immediately if they are to assimilate into the flow of productivity. They also take healthcare dollars. These are all legitimate costs. Law enforcement costs money and pulled away from normal operation. Immigrants need to be processed. Property owners pay taxes to have law enforcement to protect property. Again, all legitimate costs. But let us examine your logic, if migrants didn't generate net revenues positively in their country of origin, what makes you think they generate a net positive in the new host country? If they didn't generate a net positive for their country of origin, like a failed state like Venezuela, by which evidence do you use to determine they are indeed productive enough? Furthermore, why do municipalities like NYC have to cut services? Why do they have to evict migrants from shelters? The coordination and logistics of feeding them and find them shelter, getting them the proper healthcare, all at no cost to them. Resources are not unlimited and because of that, these new peoples drive up spending that has to be paid for by the native or local populations. If the federal government does not want to fulfill its immigration policy with federal dollars, offload the costs to local governments, what does that say about the scarcity of resources?
Left-wingers are correct that unfettered immigration boosts GDP, because it boosts total spending, even if it means most of it is by taxpayers paying for these new peoples. Using their logic, we should take in all the people in poverty in the world, and boost the GDP to astronomical levels by funding all of it.
The underlying assumption here is that the value of a human lies in their ability to generate profit for the factory owners, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists of America. If they can't, then they don't deserve life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
That life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness has to be paid for by someone. Why burden US citizens all ready struggling with people coming here for free stuff.
Are you being serious with me right now?
Are you even American? I ask because in America we have this document that says people are endowed with unalienable rights. So no, nobody has to pay for that. This is a very fucking fundamental American thing.
People are struggling because of the decades long destructive neoliberal campaign to devalue labor and deny workers rights. The immigrants are fleeing places where CIA backed neoliberal policies have made things worse than here. Anyway, ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for blueberry muffins.
There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness... There is certainly no document that says rights protected in the constitution are free,
So probably not American then, because I think your average American would not confuse the declaration of Independence with the constitution. Fun fact: the constitution was written 11 years later.
That part of the declaration of Independence we are talking about says:
For the non-Americans like JimБолауски and the homeschooled kids let's break down the meaning:
This is saying we believe these things are true, not because someone tells us but becauae we observe these as facts of reality
This is a rejection of the idea of "divine right," a rejection of the idea that some people are just naturally better than others.
This is the part where JimБолауски is confused, so let's make sense of it: "endowed by their Creator" means given by God. Or, if you are an atheist, the more plain meaning is that this is an aspect of being born human in this world.
"Unalienable" means can not be given or taken away. So "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" means that humans have human rights just for being human, and these rights aren't granted nor taken away by earthly powers. These rights don't depend on your credit score or bank account, and these rights don't dissolve just because a rich person in fancy clothes says they ought. These rights don't accrue from paying taxes or generating profit for corporate overlords. These rights are not commodities and can neither be bought nor sold in the marketplace. These rights apply to humans of all nations, not just citizens of a certain nation. The authors could have specified, but did not. So that means everybody, including immigrants.
Now for those following along at home, I want you to recognise the thinking and the mindset of modern capitalist fascism:
When that document was written it was understood that such rights don't apply to slaves, nor savages nor women. This is the america that fascists think is "great" and want to return to.
The modern capitalist fascist doesn't believe that all men were created equal, they think some men are naturally better than others, and ought to be the leader. Evangelicals have said that Trump was sent or chosen by God -the absolute opposite of what the founding fathers of our nation said.
For the fascist there can be no equality or egalitarianism, only the hierarchy of the authoritarian and subordinates. This inequality extends to the enemy of fascism: the hated "other". The nonwhite people, the gay and trans people, the immigrants. They are at once weak subhuman creatures and also powerful and crafty enemies that can destroy the nation if left unchecked. For the fascist, immigrants and trans people don't deserve human rights.
The declaration of Independence says that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. For the fascist it is the opposite: governments are instituted to grant and deny these rights. Rights are only granted to those who constantly perform rituals of allegiance and loyalty, and more importantly generate profit. For the capitalism fascist, the more positive revenue you can generate, the more rights you have to do whatever you want.
Anyway I'm tired of this but I feel like I have explained why the idea of human rights tied to being profitable is at odds with the most fundamental American principles of rights and the purpose of government. Why fascism is backwards and un-American, and why anyone who loves our country should reject such unpatriotic, insurrectionist, and destructive notions.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Did you have a stroke?
Just sharing my thoughts, man.
They're quite incoherent, do you smell burning toast.
You didn't understand my well-reasoned and comprehensive explanation of why you're wrong? I think the problem may be your poor reading comprehension.
Well reasoned you thought life liberty and pursuit of happiness was in the constitution.
@wintermute_oregon @jimbolauski Most conservatives haven't read it either, myself included. Don't be snobbish.
If you haven't read it don't comment about what is and is not in it.
@jimbolauski Did you think I was? 🤭
It's not snobbish to call people out when they are speaking from ignorance.
I'm betting casey is a product of modern public schools in a liberal state. Why teach people how our country works when they can indoctrinate them about institutional racism instead.
@wintermute_oregon I was homeschooled, and read programming books instead. 🤷🏾♂️
If most people haven't read something, criticizing them for not reading that thing is snobbish. I don't care if it's a document that defines the laws of our country.
@wintermute_oregon Now that's a completely different statement altogether.
I wasn't complaining about the inclusion of those children. I was complaining of the inclusion of children of immigrants born in the US which constitutionally makes them American citizens.
Which is a choice we make. It is not inherent to immigration. For half the existence of this country we spent zero on regulating immigration.
Failure of productivity results from a corrupt and inefficient government in places like Venezuela. It has little to do with the capability of people. Go to any construction site or kitchen in the US and you will find them staffed with mostly immigrants. Labor created value and anyone can do labor if managed effectively.
Because they don't have sufficient funds to do so which could easily be fixed if xenophobes in government didn't block taking action.
Correct. Labor is the most valuable natural resource on Earth.
I said spending is an aggregate measure of GDP. You can't even debate honestly and imply you are honest by saying other people are dishonest. It is best you are covered with a veil and blocked. Labor itself isn't value. Value is the end product. Every country has labor. The productivity of that labor is not equal. This is what leftist don't understand about the price of labor; it is not due to the labor itself, but the value that comes out the other end. This is why labor is unequal... and why your statement is nonsensical. No point in debating somebody in economics when they don't know how an economy works. I am not going to waste my time, when blocking is much more efficient.