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A Market with No Memory

On Nov 03 10:16 AM Tony Petroski wrote:
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> Open the Southern border as there are many more than 19 million who
> will buy those homes. Unfortunately, for a generation, they all
> vote Democratic. Still, we can handle that and then we have a Republican
> wave in 2044!

A lot of unskilled, uneducated serfs from latin america aren't going
to rescue america by buying all the houses and paying for social
security and medicare. And they bring with them the culture that
created and sustains the disastrous societies they came from, and
supplies lots of gangbangers and teenage unwed mothers and prison
inhabitants to the US. Oh, and I forgot 2 hr gang rapes.

Now, if you talk about opening the border to educated, skilled, asian
immigrants that's a different story! Unlike the latinos, in one
generation *their* children are excelling, exceeding the native born
by large margins. i.e. raising the average

I'm not saying that latinos have less *potential* than asians, I'm
saying that latino culture is a piece of ****. And if you program a
computer (human brain) with bad software, you get bad results, no
matter how good the computer is.

We've done a massive social experiment in this country using
California. About 1 in 4 residents of California are third world
serfs from Latin America at this point. And the state definitely has
that third world flavor to it now. So no, they don't automatically
reach their potential just by crossing the border. In fact they seem
to be very slow learners, taking multiple generations to realize that
their old culture is crap, and they need to get with the new program
(again, unlike Asians).

Your view is common among the PC crowd, that America can take all and
sundry and its innate power of transformation and goodness will
automatically work. (violin and organ music in background) That is,
after all, one of the myths of our country. But like any other
system, this one has limitations too. That view is just another
variation of the kool-aid that main stream economists drink, that
perpetual growth is possible in a finite system, and that the only
possible system is one of growth. Our whole system is predicated on
growth, whatever the cost.

Don't believe me? Imagine that tomorrow we opened the borders to
anyone who wanted to come to America from anywhere in the world. We
would probably have a billion people here within 3 to 5 years. Would
the system survive such a shock. No.

Am I saying that in a hundred or hundred and fifty years, when all
these latinos finally get with the program (if they do), they won't be
American? No. But that doesn't change things now, living in a
society with a large minority of third world serfs with all the
discordance that brings.