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I'm not necessarily opposed to, nor afraid of immigrants.

Not all Americans are Captain America either, nor ethical, nor moral, nor just, nor intelligent, nor productive, nor safe, etc.

I am not a xenophobe.

I've personally known far more immigrants whom have been far more productive than I have born citizens.

I've personally been subjected to far more crime by white-trash citizen types than I have either "minorities" and/or immigrants.

But there is another oft-ignored problem to consider:

The population of the U.S. in 2000 was about 281,421,906.

The current population is about 331,449,281.

As per the BLS, the Labor Force in 2000 was about 159,607,317.

Currently, the Labor Force has been reduced to about 151,844,011.

So, an increase of about 50.02 million people.

But a reduction of about 7.8 million jobs.

As per the Federal Reserve, the number of publicly-listed companies in the U.S. has been reduced by about 70 percent, since the late 1990's.

Due largely to mergers & acquisitions, in this era of massive consolidation of most everything.

Those mergers & acquisitions have resulted in far fewer jobs, as Corporate America seeks to cut costs, i.e. numbers of employees, to boost profits for their largest institutional shareholders.

Plus, the number of new small businesses starting yearly has also been reduced by about 70 percent, since the late 1990's.

Again, meaning far fewer Americans (and non-citizen immigrants) working.

The true unemployment rate is about 25.4 percent.

Higher than during the Great Depression.

But artificially suppressed by the magic of statistical manipulation (often via revised definitions of "Labor Force", "unemployed", etc.).

The last thing this country needs is even more people.

Whilst there technically may be enough land area to accommodate more people, certain ultra-wealthy land Barons are hoarding millions (tens of millions?) of acres of space, that they're often not using productively.

Thus forcing that growing number of people to cram into relatively smaller spaces.

And people wonder why disease may be rampant (wasn't NY City supposedly the largest "covid" hotspot, whether SARS-CoV2 or even just influenza)?

But hey.....

At least Big Banks like JP Morgan get richer by managing the growing numbers of EBT (aka food stamp) cards (now more than 40 million).

And the Big Asset Management firms, like Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, Fidelity, Invesco, the Capital Group, et al., make more money by investing in more residential homes, for rental property.

And as they invest in more government subsidized low-income housing units.

And invest in more utility and energy companies that get more government subsidies for low-income earners.

And so on.

Welfare is now profitable.

Bring in more unemployed people.

Make the ultra-rich even richer.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Until corporate media is severely restrained from their sycophant relationship with government bureaucracies and elected officials, everything else is moot. The average American has been tamed into contented lemmings, and media feeds them filling tripe as they envision prime rib.

It’s an amazing time to be alive!

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