RE: Question for Mach on Immigration29 Sep 2022 18:22
machiismo
Everything a Tory government does to you is wrong except when they allow more immigration.
But you cannot explain how immigration improves our wealth, you are clueless because it does not on a personal level.
Bring one immigrant into the country, put him in a field he eats grass lives in a tent, and makes clothes from rabbit skins, got it so far? He, therefore, contributes zero to GNP remember GDP.
Now take that one man, give him welfare, he goes out and spends his welfare, then provide a home, which needs building, power, and running water, gas which needs producing and transporting. By these simple means that one man has contributed to the GDP without even working. But once that one man has his home, he only has his welfare to spend, which will not increase the GDP enough. So you bring in another man and repeat and so it goes, and today we have a population made up of 20% of immigrants, and individually we are no wealthier, why? Immigrants do not even have work (well actually no one does) to actually on paper contribute to the GDP. now is that simple enough?
That is why both our main parties love mass immigration, it is one of the easiest ways to increase the GDP, something both like to mention, without much effort from themselves. Take the HS2 rail line, it produces a positive effect for GDP whilst it is being built, more in fact than if it ever runs. Building homes, schools etc, increases GDP. Across the EU there are projects which increased wealth GDP whilst being built but never got used, roads to nowhere airports with no aircraft, and even a lift that has never carried a passenger.
Finland has thought of giving money to every citizen, to lift the economy, it is their way of trying to increase GDP without immigrants. The USA is throwing money at people, to do the same.
None of the above is sustainable none of it, that is why I often ask people as I have asked you in the past "how many people can this country sustain" no one has ever given an answer, including yourself.
And many economists do not even think that GDP is an accurate measurement for a Service Economy like ours, it is more accurate for an economy based on the physical production of things, they term it things that you drop on your foot!
And of course, you and others will always twist immigration as being along racial lines, well it is not, it includes all immigrants.
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