quote author=Crafty_Dog
Much to disagree with here, but some important questions raised.
Open Borders Produced the Biden Economic Boom
Why doesn’t he get credit for strong growth?
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It's not just that the 'new' jobs went to the foreigners, and so those at the low end of our economic ladder were left out. It's not just that the influx happen to be illegals, and disproportionately causing crime and chaos in our cities. it's the imbalance of 'immigration' when it comes unchecked across the southern border.
Legal immigration can have plan and purpose to it. Besides choosing doctors or business owners for example among the mix, the mix comes from different places and different regions into the great melting pot and that is not happening.
E pluribus unum is dead.
I have black friends, gay friends, Jewish friends, atheist friends, Christian friends, even Far Left friends, but I don't have any friends who recently came from a third world country that don't speak English.
Luskin:
"The conventional answer [to why Biden doesn't get credit for economic growth] is persistent inflation, and there’s truth to that."[Doug] There wasn't any
real growth per person in income or wealth so far under Biden other than for illegals and recent immigrants who had no US income before, and there should have been V-shaped growth coming out of the Covid closures reopening.
The growth we've had under Biden is in 3 areas, debt, foreclosures and bankruptcies.
https://fortune.com/2024/04/01/america-social-economic-scars-us-debt-gomes-price/https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/foreclosures/attom-q1-2023-u-s-foreclosure-market-report/https://www.bankruptcywatch.com/statistics