Excerpted from a much longer post, but something I’ve been pondering.
[AccordingToHoyt] However remember most of these people aren’t coming here because they’re mad in love with the US or freedom. Some come because they hate us. Some because they’re indoctrinated communists who think we’re richer because we stole from their country/race. (The whole la raza bullshit.)
Most of them, however — trust me — come because the streets are paved with gold; they can make more in a week than they make back home in a year, and our welfare system is a seemingly infinite cash cow.
I estimate that in normal times a good quarter of immigrants goes back home. In normal times, when we’re begging for workers, and the streets really are paved with gold.
Is it that high? Don’t know. No one keeps good track of this. Heck, our immigration system is so loose most illegality is “overstaying visas.”
This is anedacta and observation. The US is WEIRD in the world, so even in normal times a lot of people decide we’re too weird for them and bugger off back where they came from. Now that’s easier if you just came across the Southern border, as opposed to flying halfway across the world.
I do know that under Obama’s stellar economy ALMOST everyone who came in buggered back “home” within a year. It had a name, “La grande Salida” and it was noted. Heck, people were buggering “home” who had been born here, because back South of the border they had extended family and other help.
We had some articles about that here at the time, though I don’t recall that term for it. Might be a secret Latino password...
Obama’s economy was a walk in the park, compared to what we’re entering. Yes, I know part of flying immigrants around is the left’s clever-fool system for making sure no one notices the spreading disaster, and/or to spread vote fraud. But I do wonder how much of it is to make sure that these people can’t just run back over the border when they realize how hard things are about to get. It really reminds me a lot of Kenya’s resettlement of the Masai, known as “first you catch a Masai.”
So, while the numbers coming in are staggering, I think a large number will — if they aren’t already — go the other way at speed.
The backwash will still be gang activity, crime and disorder, but I don’t think on the scale anticipated.
I actually think the “salida” will gain turbo speed in the next couple of months, because most of the people coming in KNOW unstable systems. They can sniff coming trouble in the air. And heck, guys, the air is thick with it. I’m starting to get the need to dive under parked cars when I hear a backfire. And that’s me. And I’ve been here for years.
[Bloomberg] Author says we are underestimating the economic consequences of China's zero covid policy but that Xi's rule is probably not in danger of serious challenge.
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Shipping at a standstill. Severe shortages here soon to follow. But the biggest irritation is to impose fines and perhaps jail time for non compliance of medical dictates. This is being proposed at this time. So you don't get vaxed and then you are denied service but now new penalties will be imposed. Government is gearing up with new health viruses to impose upon the populations here. The new germophobic nation.
Was watching and listening to videos claiming to be made in Shanghai and smuggled out.
If real, it has 100's of people at night screaming and crying for help from the windows of their 20+ floor apartment complex jails.
It tends to make you think the way the CCP is handling the lockdown is more like a collection of Communist Gulag detention centers. Where they'll just send cleanup crews to retrieve the bodies.
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Slowing down shipping and processing of financial transactions (Shanghai is the banking capitol) has a ripple effect on the global economy. While there are apparently pandemic issues in play the negative impact on US -China trade has secondary grey economic warfare effects - deliberate or not
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The de-coupling of the world economy will not be a top-down thing. Businesses that can't get by without Chinese imports will cease. Other's will find a way to operate without Chinese imports. Ditto the financial angle.
The gummint won't be able to control it.
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All the hysteria over something that is fairly mild everywhere else suggests something special is going on. Whether biological or political is open to speculation.
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