Colonialism

The unforgivable sin of colonialism was not exploiting third-world countries. It was then abandoning them and  not carrying them through to self-sufficiency.

Donald, Duck!

After a DACA meeting in the Oval Office, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin ran over staffers and guards to find a microphone and tattle that President Trump used the word "shitholes" to refer to Haiti, El Salvatore and four African countries ... saying that we should also be encouraging immigration from Norway rather than from these failed countries. The libs then took these comments and morphed his scatology into referring to the PEOPLE in these outhouses ... expanding the country list into ALL of Africa. "For shame, for shame! Our president hates black and brown people and wants only white immigrants!" ... as always, counting on the gullibility of the American people. This, kind readers, is known as "racial politics" ... as played for the last fifty years almost exclusively by Democrats.

Trouble is ... Trump is not shameable. Since most liberals can know what Trump is thinking, I guess I can too. He is here arguing for merit-based immigration ... and taking immigrants from certain failed third-world countries BECAUSE THEY ARE FAILED makes no sense whatsoever. Such immigrants are very likely to become wards of our government ... as opposed to those from the developed world who are much more likely to contribute to our well-being. And I strongly suspect Trump would rather have a black math teacher  from Haiti than a white street thug from Norway as a new immigrant.

Such comments, particularly if they are scatological can be easily demagogued into a racial slur ... which is exactly what many libs did ... CNN repeated the word "shitholes" 36 times in that evening's broadcasts. Does Trump care? Probably not .... as these media attacks are constant ... and seem to rum off Donald's back like water off a duck's. Perhaps, we might start calling Trump "Duck Donald" or even  "Donald Duck" because of this ability easily to shed such rabid criticism? (Or, perhaps the above-titled warning?)  And the Democrat media might even like it because they could take it as a slur ... when it is just the opposite.

A Disconnect

The straight skinny coming out of the run-up to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is that five million jobs will be lost in the developed world by 2020 due to the rapid advances being made in artificial intelligence and robotics ... see: Breitbart Story. Compound this with the vast migration of cheap labor and hanger-ons from the third world into the developed world ... this creates an employment disconnect that will be very difficult to reconcile both structurally and politically.

One of the reasons that China has had such dramatic economic growth over the last twenty-five years has been its vast supply of cheap and effective labor. Developed nations, in order to counter this economic advantage, have been (possibly somewhat unconsciously) opening their borders to the underdeveloped nations for immigrant labor ... with the result of reducing their national average personal incomes ... striving for wage and productivity parity with China.

Back to the Davos forecast ... a distinction needs to be made in the forces that are being pointed to for these expected employment reductions. Artificial intelligence mainly is of the mind ... allowing quicker and more effective decisions to be made. This does not necessarily remove the need for labor. (except when these decisions make robots or workers more effective.) It just improves the quality of generic decision making. However, robots in fact do replace physical laborers and thus will reduce actual employment (yet improve productivity.)

If in fact these Davos predictions are accurate, what does it mean for the American economy? Well, clearly the current administration will likely not back off its packing this country with immigrants. And if jobs are indeed drying up, this suggests an even higher percentage of these immigrants receiving government assistance ... with even fewer taxpayers funding these doles for the unemployed ... resulting unfortunately in much higher government deficits. Ouch!

There is only one possible solution in my mind ... start collecting taxes from the robots ...