The Biggest Idea in Development that No One Really Tried (video)

[Yeshua4Pearl]

Is he giving this speech because Obama wants to bring in more Muslim terrorists into the country? the ones that will come are not the ones who are entrenched in their society and have no reason to leave. and for those millions of Americans that he would like to relocate elsewhere--that is if this guy and Obama are consequent with their theology, which country would want them?

[Yeshua4Pearl]

Is he giving this speech because Obama wants to bring in more Muslim terrorists into the country? the ones that will come are not the ones who are entrenched in their society and have no reason to leave.

[Yeshua4Pearl]

He should get all the facts: In addition to the increase in immigrants leaving the United States, immigration to the United States has decreased in recent years. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, apprehensions of illegal immigrants were down 18 percent from 2006 and almost 40 percent from 2005. check the US immigration support organization

[Yeshua4Pearl]

.What theorists in Ivory Towers seems to have forgotten is that the U.S. we have 1 mill legals a year. this is not an informative message he is using the race card to persuade us to allow unlimited borders. Should study Ecuador as an experiment in labor mobility, with thousands of Colombians entering the country running away from communism and drugs, he's also promoting brain drain and no development to those countries

[Yeshua4Pearl]

. We do have a work visa program.Bush was stopped by liberals from expanding the work visa program. Another question, Mexicans and Cameron, would you give 1 million Americans your jobs?

[relativisticvel]

"Everything but labor" isn't everything but labor it doesn't include institution mobility.

[kulza23]

Down with restrictions on labor mobility!

[GreatGrumbledook]

He does not sound like a tough grizzled old soldier but some kind of dandified Nancy boy, who is afraid of wars and he is indubitably no sea-dog but the sort of pasty landlubber I have always despised. I'll warrant, the most exciting thing that has happened to this limpid prawn in a whole year, was the day when he forgot to put sugar in his porridge!

[coelho009]

@GreatGrumbledook : So you decide whom to listen to based not on the content of their ideas and the evidence they present, but on whether or not they're big burly unshaven men in football jerseys with a can of beer... I feel sorry for you and I'm glad that people like you aren't in charge of setting migration policy.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@coelho009: Well, here in France the government substitute, called the corporate dwarf, has already issued deportation quotas, so there is light at the end of the tunnel; though I advocate a new Night of Saint Bartholomew like in the old times as solution; but we shall see: This current crisis of the world economics will soon end my boredom and give me the means to turn sickness to health and health to sickness, as the poet would say, provided that Oswald Spengler is right again:

[GreatGrumbledook]

"The opponents and the methods were changed. The present-day war with economic weapons (which may later be accounted a second world war) produced wholly new forms in the Bolshevik economic offensive expressed in the Five Year Plan; the attack by dollars and francs on the pound sterling; the inflations engineered by foreign exchanges which destroyed the whole contents of national exchequers; autarchy of economic systems which may be carried to the extent of wiping out exports from the opposing...

[GreatGrumbledook]

... powers and therewith the whole economic system and the means of existence for great nations; and the Dawes and Young plans, which represent the attempts of financial groups to force whole states to do forced labour for the banks. What it really amounts to is that the life of ones own nation has to be gained at the cost of destroying that of others. It is the struggle on the keel of the overturned boat. And when all other means are exhausted, then the oldest and most primitive, ...

[GreatGrumbledook]

... the military means, will come into their own again. The more strongly armed power will force the weaker one to give up its economic defensive, capitulate, and disappear, Cannon are in the last resort stronger than coal. There is not telling how this economic war will end, but it is certain that it will finally restore to the State as authority its historical rights, based on voluntary, and therefore reliable, thoroughly trained, and highly mobile armies ...

[GreatGrumbledook]

... and will push back economics to the second place, where they belong."

And Oswald Spengler is indeed my other self, my counsel's consistory, my oracle, my prophet! And I, like a child, will go by his direction.

[SrTC85]

Regarding the estimation suggestion in my last post, I envisioned an analysis of situations in which such policies were instituted in the past - if they exist!

Last thought: maybe this could be done first as a pilot between Mexico and USA. Or another nearby developing country. Call me out if that is an outrageous idea.

[SrTC85]

Informative - great counters to the "buts" - especially fears of the zero-sum. I have one more "but", however. If this type of policy were passed, I imagine there would be a large influx of immigrants to America and other developed countries in the years following the policy - larger than current trends. Is there any way to estimate what the strains on public resources (schools, healthcare, etc) would be? Would they be manageable? If so, preemptively or only ad hoc? Great work, and thanks!

[AfricanCentreforCom]

Big insight; especially with the failure of development interventions in the past 20 years (Gow and Morss, 1988)

[kifimbocheza]

for those of us in migrant sending countries, split the piece in three. Over an evening here in Tz, I've enjoyed, 6:46. And it's good stuff. But please split it up to broaden access. Cheers.