Your second point should stand alone. The first sentence of that point is the key to its logical fallacy.
poppyscock....you are just plying vacuous puffery for lack of insight....
What work are unskilled nesb's supposed to do when they get here?
Like Europe, there's many reasons not to increase intake of them now as opposed to 30+ years ago.
- we are no longer a manufacturing economy therefore have little need for unskilled workers. Further, we can get all the unskilled workers we need domestically (from the growing boganization welfare, divorce, and socialist values is causing) and from NZ.
- welfare is a disincentive for culturally challenged nesb migrants to work (read some European experience literature) and refer to the unemployment rates I quoted above...
- our compex tax and regulatory system is a disincentive for nesb migrant self employment.....and tax evasion when they are.
- we continue to export unskilled jobs overseas, not only manufacturing but IT, call centres etc where labor is cheaper because they don't have welfare states...
- there's few unskilled jobs requiring the use of one's hands alone. .....as Gittin's article elaborated, plant and equipment is required for most unskilled jobs....and Australia already relies on excessive foreign funding of private sector capital requirements......due to banks making an easier profit out of the resi property bubble.
As I keep saying, the European experience is a real life model of where your deluded beliefs lead....and Europe is fast backtracking.......
The higher the welfare burden, the higher the tax burden, and the less internationally competitive our wages are for skilled labour, hence the brain drain...
According to my line our humanitarian intake is meagre according to our nation's wealth. Poorer nations continue to support refugees better than Australia does.
According to your line, Australia should drop its standard of living so guys like you can have warm and fuzzies.
Your view is subversive and racist in that you consider 3rd world citizens so intellectually and physically challenged, that they can't organize themselves into large groups, fight for a better future for their countries (pakistan and afghanistan), exercise restraint from bonking long enough to bring down their populations to sustainable levels (sudan and most sub Sahara), and get on with a democratic free market economy.....
though why bother when you can fast track into a developed nation hey Chairman Red?
Fighting for what you get helps build the character to value it and keep it....but seeing you took the convenient short cut, I understand that you don't get it....
Our nation only appears wealthy to leftie goons Chairman.....We can't even self fund our mining sector's growth. Capital has to be borrowed from overseas, or more equity sold to foreign interests...
But these are subjects not understood by socialists from cultures without a history of successful free markets...
Infrastructure is about commitment and cost, occasionally matched with need. Australia recently squandered the best years of its economic history, leaving infrastructure spend significantly to the private sector.
Yeah all that wealth was spent on welfare.....servicing debt on higher property prices brought about by dill left enviro nazi anti development government...
Sometimes a visionary government does a Snowy, or Ord, or Burdekin. But nowadays the bean counters intervene and put the kibosh on nation building infrastructure. Except for a national water grid, Australia has more than adequate infrastructure to accommodate a significantly larger population than it has. China is living proof of what can be done to put infrastructure in place, if need be.