Gotcha...and I doubt that Syria currently has a robust support system for illegal immigrants, what with its status as a war torn nightmare. What did it do back when your grandparents showed up?
Not sure what your point here is other than to take cheap shots at Syria. I've already told you what they did when my grandparents showed up.
It's a disgrace to the USA that we can't handle immigrants who need asylum while a much smaller and poorer nation was able to do so 100 years ago.
No it's about 2 billion short of the rest of the world....I left out all the people you mentioned.
I think your estimates are off - not that many people would want to come to the US. I know most of my relatives in Armenia do not want to come to the US even though they know life here is actually quite a bit better financially. For a lot of people in the world there is much more to life than money.
Yep.
Nope. I pointed out, like many things, the GND has no plan for commercial flight.What does the GND suggest we do? Stop flying entirely? Hanggliders?
No, trains.
"Build trains across oceans and end all air travel!"
“Build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”.
I don't agree with the first one, I agree with the second one, but the key which is brought up in the GND is the phrase "air travel stops becoming necessary". Even if the actual train ideas themselves don't work out one thing we can do as a society is stop feeding the machine of unnecessary air travel. The pandemic has taught us just how much of our air travel is completely unnecessary. Starting with eliminating that is the key. Most business travel is unnecessary and even counterproductive with the technology we have today. Air travel should be replaced largely with high-speed rail and it should be mostly for non-business travelers.
It's a lie...sold to you, to get your vote. Nothing more.
Well, it didn't work - I didn't vote for the Republican who wrote it or any Repuvlicans at all.
It's not actionable...not without murdering the economy.
That's not true at all. It would murder certain companies and maybe even parts of sectors but it would shift to new types of companies in those sectors. As much as there is to lose, there is also a huge opportunity to gain. Investors are actually excited and impatient for these changes to start so they can make their money. The big players in the energy sector are not stupid, either. Big Oil is not dumb, they are all invested in renewables and ready for the shift.
It's not only actionable, it's overdue.
I'm not at all worried about it....no one is going to do it.
It's just a ploy to get your vote.
Again, it didn't work, I did not vote for any Republicans. Did it get your vote for the Republicans?
Did you buy an electric car? They exist....did you buy one?
I didn't. I'm not going to pay more money for a car that performs worse. The technology isn't there.
Hybrid - a Prius. "Most Reliable" car on the market, regardless of its gas-saving qualities. But then there's that - 50 mpg is a huge improvement from my 21 mpg sedan. Like all hybrids, it's an electric car with its own gas generator onboard. Going full electric is not as feasible for everyone yet.
I've gone car amping with it - the performance is just fine. I'm not racing it in a grand prix or le mans course or anything.
Let's see...we're on pace for 2 million people crossing illegally this year, that we know of, and far more if we count those not apprehended at the border. Since Covid won't likely end, and these nations won't likely improve, it would take around 15-20 years to gain 10 increase in the population due to illegal immigration at this rate.
That's fine, we have the room and the resources.
Do you want it straight from the mouths of the illegals trafficked by human smuggling organizations or the people who collect intelligence on human smuggling organizations?
Your "help" gets a lot of people killed and exploited.
Well my cousin and his family were "trafficked" in by a "coyote" and as bad as that experience was he said he'd do it all over and it was worth it because where he lived in Mexico was so dangerous and even the police were not reliable or even outright corrupt. He said you had to form a "gang" of sorts with your neighbors but you couldn't let the real gangs know you were colluding like that. So, I have heard it "straight from the mouths of the illegals trafficked by human smuggling organizations" and I could even ask questions if I wanted to. I can call him up again but I douvt his story has changed.
