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Theo520
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Yup, anyone who was recorded telling an off color joke is a racist, you’ve got proof!!!
Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa
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Theo520
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You’ll find stinkcat completely ignores the multiplier effect from money being spent in a local economy,
He’s fixated that the USD sent abroad eventually returns to the US banking system (without driving a US local economy). Well unless they send the money to El Salvador, Ecuador, or a few other locations that also use USD.
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stinkcat_14
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What multiplier effect?
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Theo520
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Are you playing thick, I thought you were trained in econ?
Local multiplier effect - Wikipedia
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stinkcat_14
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What about leakages?
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Theo520
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Answer my question. Anyone with Freshman econ should know these terms.
And since I didn’t use the term “leakage” here, why did you ask unless you already knew the connection
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Economic Leakage: Understanding Its Impact on the Circular Flow
Explore economic leakage—how capital or income exits an economy within the circular flow of income model, affecting supply and demand, and requiring government intervention.
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stinkcat_14
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So the question is, is there a multiplier effect with leakages?
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Theo520
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Are you doing a grant application?
I think this area has been studied. I’ve seen analysis on how foreign tourism is considered a local leakage (a negative for the home community) as well as how the spend in the foreign community does have a multiplier effect on their economy.
Whether it’s good or bad obviously depends on your perspective and objective. Foreign tourism is a great boon to some resource poor countries. But your local economic development agency really wants to keep the money circulating locally.
I’m pretty sure there is quite a bit of econ research on remittances.
You were ‘playing thick’ weren’t you!
Naught naughty
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stinkcat_14
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I think you better link to this study, because you are not making much sense.
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Theo520
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Naw, it’s off topic and you are feigning a discussion.
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SuperLuigi
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No it isn’t. A lot of times, it’s funny.
People, especially rich people and corporations, are in court all of the time and one of the reasons are frivilous lawsuits.
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You have to include the City of San Francisco, California whose streets have vast “villages” of tents where homeless people live. It’s on the news almost every night.
There are also computer programs that provide information to residents about the locations of places where people defecate on the street … to make it easier for pedestrians to walk around without stepping in it.
mashable.com
Not making this up.
There are also computer programs that provide information to residents about the locations of places where people defecate on the street … to make it easier for pedestrians to walk around without stepping in it.
Poop map shows scale of San Francisco's human tragedy
Poop map shows scale of San Francisco's human tragedy
mashable.com
Not making this up.
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jtauke
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You always do manage to post the most irrelevant of things.
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Ridgerunner
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it might give those left behind a better chance in life. I remember when I used to work in HIB and HIA visas. Most of them came from the Philippines. And it wasn’t as if there were no health workers left in the Philippines when I got some of them in here. There were plenty, including a lot who couldn’t get jobs until the then-holders of the jobs moved on. It was amazing how many health people that country was generating, and how poor their prospects were when they graduated and/or finished their residencies.
In some places there are plenty of skilled people, but not enough places for all of them.
But I’ll also say that one of the countries from which it was easy to recruit was South Africa. And they were easier to qualify than Filipinos, even though medical education in he Philippines in in English in the two major medical universities. South Africans, even Afrikaaners, are taught English from birth and use it from birth. They could more easily pass the state exams the first time than could some of the Filipinos. But then, Afrikaans is derived from Dutch and Dutch is supposedly the closest language to English. The various Filipino dialects are not close at all.
So, language can matter as an addition to skills. I do understand virtually everybody in Norway speaks English well.
But it has seemed all along to me that the real difference between Trump and the Dems is the concept of what immigration is for. To Trump it’s the best interests of this country’s people. For the Dems, it’s a charity thing; the best interests of some other country’s people (well, with some interest in demographic change).
I don’t think the twain met, and I doubt it will.
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The Philippines trains people for export, it’s a product. While I think it’s great for the Philippines, it takes the pressure off in the US. The job market here needs a shortage to create strong incentive for students to go through the required education.
And philippine hospitals are not very impressive, outside of Makati and other rich districts. The care is fairly third world from what I saw.
The extreme is seen in the Middle East where they import most of their workers. Locals don’t have the incentive to become skilled workers that contribute.
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People talk about “unskilled” illegal immigrants as if they’re nothing to the country getting or losing them. I don’t think that’s true at all from what I have seen. Most of them I have known are young men; young, strong, prime of life. Without a whole lot of training, they can be the best workers imaginable in a lot of things. And the truth is, most of them have worked in either agriculture or industry where they came from and aren’t entirely without skills.
And that’s who they’re losing in the “donor” countries’ probably the people their economies need the very most, and probably the ones the political systems most want to oust from the country so they won’t rebel.
I don’t think we’re doing those places anywhere near the favor we sanctimoniously believe of ourselves.
And that’s who they’re losing in the “donor” countries’ probably the people their economies need the very most, and probably the ones the political systems most want to oust from the country so they won’t rebel.
I don’t think we’re doing those places anywhere near the favor we sanctimoniously believe of ourselves.
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Ridgerunner
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Mighty good product too, from what I could see of their performance.
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guanophore
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One would think that the US has come further in dealing with the guilt and shame of slavery, but most American histories ignore it, or pass over it.
Today I am at a conference on sex trafficking, and there was a speaker that talked about how Native Americans were used and abused in this way by Colonists.
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guanophore
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The error is assuming that persons from those countries cannot or will not meet the immigration criteria because of the conditions in their country. I agree that they have less opportunities but ruling them out because they want to escape those conditions is not, in itself, problematic.
This does not make sense, unless you start from the assumption that the culture of Norway is more foundational to US culture than any other national culture. is “ourselves” extracted from Norway?
This is the basic rub, is it not? Who is “our country too”? It seems that most Republicans felt disenfranchised by Democrats being in power the past 8 years. but this type of construction reflects ‘us" and “them”. So, who is "us’ and who is “them”?
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It helps to make sense of it when you realize the people who say this aren’t talking about U.S. culture but “white” culture. They just don’t want black people to emigrate here.
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