06/12/2014
We know that liberals don’t care about having a productive business climate, as indicated by how much they regulate the life out of it. How then do they think economic growth can be induced into happening?Judging by Joe Biden’s recent remarks to the National Association of Manufacturers, he envisions a Ponzi scheme of endless immigration to goose up the GDP. Yep, the Vice President doesn’t worry about associated problems with unlimited population growth, like a threatened water supply, paving over farmland and gridlock as a lifestyle: to Biden, immigration is the universal solution.
Biden apparently disregards the value created by science and innovation, like the billion-dollar companies of Silicon Valley. He would rather pile in lots more cheap-labor immigrants who will vote Democrat. And because most of the newbies are low-skilled, many millions of them will be required to maintain the consumer economy.
Below, a drought-depleted reservoir in overpopulated California, February 2014.
Biden: We need ‘constant, unrelenting stream’ of immigrants, The Hill, June 10, 2014Vice President Biden painted a rosy picture of the outlook for U.S. businesses Tuesday, but said economic growth hinges in large part on immigration reform, now languishing in Congress.
“We need it badly from a purely — purely economic point of view,” Biden said during remarks to the National Association of Manufacturers.
The call came amid a wide-ranging address to the business group, in which Biden said the United States is better positioned than its rivals to compete in the global marketplace.
“We have the most resilient economy in the world,” Biden told hundreds of people gathered at the business group’s annual conference. “We’re better positioned than any country in the world to lead the world in the 21st Century.”
Biden said a key to the country’s solid economic footing is the “the ‘constant, unrelenting stream’ of immigrants that has come to the United States for generations.
“Not dribbling,” Biden explained. “Significant flows.”
He said the United States is among a few countries that can boast sustainable population growth, a vital part of ensuring a sufficient workforce and growing economy.
“China doesn’t have it, Japan doesn’t have, it most European countries don’t have it,” he said.
Biden tied the historic economic benefits to passage of immigration legislation now stalled in the House. Citing government estimates, the vice president said a bill passed last year in the Senate would increase the gross national product by 4.5 percent over the next 20 years, reduce the national deficit by $850 billion and extend the solvency of the Social Security system by two years.
Biden also called for increased federal investment in the country’s infrastructure and steps to improve job training.
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