President Donald Trump says that we don’t need any more immigrants and that we are full.
But he has said we should encourage immigrants from some place “like Norway.”
You know, somebody with blond hair and blue eyes, somebody “like us.”
What he was saying was that we don’t need anymore brown people, or people from “s—hole” countries or others of whatever various color he would assign to human beings.
The simple fact is that we need to increase our work force, if for nothing else than to pay the taxes we need to keep Social Security going for the existing population of retiring and retired people.
We need the caregivers, the health-care workers, the people to pick crops.
Oh yes, and the people who are computer designers and entrepreneurs and have energetic and creative minds.
The problem of course is that birth rates of white Americans are dropping as it is in white Europe.
And he thinks that white Europeans will come here and leave their excellent pensions and national health care systems to come here where we have neither?
News bulletin: They ain’t coming .
I am another entitled white guy, have had two wives, one son and he has one child with no further plans.
That is 5 people, 9 college degrees and 2 kids.
I don’t think we are atypical in having very small families.
So where do we get the labor?
We welcome immigrants, cosset them, encourage them, value them and appreciate them.
Ian Robertson,
Sequim