The Apocalypse Continued...

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Italy has been a very productive and prosperous country. Why is it part of the G-7? Because Italy is prosperous. Italy's growth rate is about 2.8% - quite good. But Italy has fallen slightly on the competitiveness scale. Of the 25 EU nations, Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries are higher. And this is one of Italy's serious problems. Northern Italy needs workers desperately. They have illegal immigration problems like Germany, France, the US, etc. But when your news becomes abridged, then one would assume only Albanians are their illegal immigrants. Albanians are only a part of Italy’s immigrants.

Italy, just like the US, needs those illegal immigrants and probably more. But when political extremists hype their fears, then suddenly a rare criminal immigrant becomes the example of all illegal immigrants.

The US also needs those immigrants. Those immigrants need jobs that politics subsidizes to keep in the US. Yes, many Mexicans send money home. And they would prefer to do those jobs back home. So why is US Sugar, et al not moving to Mexico? Your government pays for 50% of your sugar so that US Sugar will not make jobs where jobs are most needed. Classic pork and corruption - sometimes called corporate welfare.

There is no way around that fact. We need those illegal immigrants. Extremist politics hypes myths such as illegals who would bankrupt the Social Security fund. Ironically, illegals make that fund even wealthier and more stable as previously and accurately posted by others - was it Rich Levy?

Any rate, a country that expects its immigrants to conform to the standards of the host is racist. Immigration means immigrants are assimilated by the host country AND the country changes to be assimilated by its immigrants. Anything less contributes to racism.

The only problem we have with illegal immigration is that WE will not address this reason for its problem. We even increase the price of steel 400% just to protect companies too anti-American to stay in America. That George Jr illegal tariff increase. Therein lies but another example of why illegal immigration exists. It’s called 'addressing the problem at its source'. 'Curing symptoms' is what political rhetoric does when it blames the immigrants for wanting jobs.

BTW, what happened to 'cordial' relations that George Jr was going to have with Mexican leaders? George Jr, as a classic MBA, also could not come to grips with this a major reason for illegal immigration. For all his boasts about free trade, George Jr instead has taken anti-free trade and anti-Mexican agendas. He refused to do what Mexico needed to help solve the illegal immigration problems.

Listen to what happens when George Jr meets with Brazilians. It is the George Jr, enemy of globalisation, that may sour those meetings. To appreciate a major reason for illegal immigration - why we so need those people - then understand how both George Jr and France undermined and terminated a Cancun Meeting of the WTO Doha round three days early.

Did you even know about those WTO talks? Did you even know who contentious most of the world becomes with US and French trade restrictions? Why not? How can one have an opinion on illegal immigration and yet not know how anti-globalisations policies by France and the US only aggravate illegal immigration?

It just too financially profitable for many politicians to protect reasons that encourage illegal immigration. Immigrants need the jobs. And we need people to perform those jobs. Politics and 'purchased politicians’ will not even permit those jobs to go where they are needed. So we instead blame the illegals.

How myopic. Exactly what happens when Rush Limbaugh logic is applied. Why do we need them here to do the jobs? Rush spinning must avoid that question. We have a leadership problem - not an illegal immigrant problem.