In it is a plea to fix immigration problems. Some obvious solutions might be to strengthen the boarder with guards or fences.... What if instead of stopping them from coming here, circumstances were created to make us want to go there. What are the reasons the flow of immigration from Mexico to the US might be reversed?- The economy in our country is worse than theirs
- The doctors in their country are better than ours.
- They enjoy greater freedoms than we do
- Crime is lower there than here.
- They have jobs and we don't.
O.K. All I've done so far is to reverse the existing conditions. I'm not saying any of these are desirable. However, perhaps they have pushed us far enough out of the rut thinking to consider what might be done to bring one of them to a harmless or even helpful reality. Let's work on #5. In what ways might they make working in Mexico more attractive?
- Implement Google strategies in the factories.
- Implement Google strategies in think tank companies.
- Create jobs that require graduate degrees.
- Perfect the universal translator.
- Create conditions for a new ice age so the gringos would want to go where it was warm and would bring all of their advances in farming with them.
- Perfect bio domes for working and living areas. (see picture above)
- In jobs that required hands only, not a lot of brain work, place monitors above the assembly line that would educate and entertain.
- Make it so that people choosing the educational assembly lines (see #7) could earn their associates after two years of working there.
- Make it so that people choosing the educational assembly lines (see #7) could learn about the LDS religion from missionaries while their hands were kept busy.
- In keeping with the tradition of siesta, make available to each worker a clean, quiet, sleep environment for lunch breaks. These might look like the capsule hotels in Japan.
- Provide an on-campus Wii workout room.
- Legalize the monopolies of the U.S. Robber Barron era but impose a system for passing along the wealth.
- Motivate productivity with carrots not sticks, i.e. reward good work but never threaten job security.
- Promote socializing by creating cohort groups among the workers and assigning a discussion leader for while they worked.
- Allow workers to somehow create their own job descriptions.
Some interesting thoughts. I like thinking outside the box. One thing I haven't been able to get my mind inside, however, is the opinion that we don't want immigration from the South. Do you have some insights as to why I should be against immigration?
ReplyDeleteIn this blog I have hoped to avoid being a "sage on the stage." I like good questions almost as much as I like good answers. Yours is a good question.
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ReplyDeleteNewt Gingrich has some great ideas about "what it means to be an American." He speaks of exporting those ideas along with the relief items. What if people that came here were eclectic enough to pick up on some of our great ideas and adopted them?
ReplyDeleteI think you touched on Jake's question in your last comment. I'm an advocate of responsible immigration. I believe our country owes much of our current standard of living to the Hispanics that work harder longer hours for less compensation in every industry from agriculture to construction. This allows an American like me to slide into a comfortable management position with not much more than a bachelor’s and the ability to speak English. The problems have arisen from our apparent inability to keep pace with the country’s demand for manual labor, practicing loose border control and selective enforcement. The result has been an unregulated tide of illegal immigration which provides both inexpensive labor and excessive spillover costs to society such as: over burdening the welfare system, perpetuation of a permanent underclass through resistance to higher education and adoption of the English language, driving hospitals out of business, political pandering and increased crime. Much of this should be addressed not by knee-jerk calls to “throw the illegals out” or “embrace and accept all aspects of their present culture”. Whatever the failures or politics involved in the past, the fact that is we have now a conservatively-estimated 12 million illegal aliens currently in the currently in the country working in some of our most vital industries. I think we should construct a path to legalization that includes requirements that encourage the same brand of integration into American society previous immigrant populations in the U.S. have practiced such as English, respect for law, patriotism, an emphasis on higher education, etc.
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