Get ready for a new wave of immigrants ...

[dogtag]

But this lot will be coming from Hong Kong and will be
heading for the UK where they will get special treatment,
and here to the US where they may not. However, these
will be well educated and businesslike and would prove
to be a boon. Plus they put a high price on their freedom.
Let them in. That is of course, if China lets them leave.

[Vern Humphrey]

I have always felt our needs come first. We were not put here to be the relief valve for every tin pot dictator. Send us your surgeons, your PHDs. your biochemists!

[dogtag]

I have always felt our needs come first. We were not put here to be the relief valve for every tin pot dictator. Send us your surgeons, your PHDs. your biochemists!

Who serve 'our needs' better than educated workers ?
Surgeons and Chemists serve our health, workers supply the wherewithal to afford the Surgeons.

[Vern Humphrey]

Who serve 'our needs' better than educated workers ?
Surgeons and Chemists serve our health, workers supply the wherewithal to afford the Surgeons.

That was my point. We need doctors and scientists, not manual laborers.

[dogtag]

That was my point. We need doctors and scientists, not manual laborers.

We're not talking uneducated laborers. These Hong Kongers will be businessmen/Women,
and very probably a number of Doctors.
Perhaps you didn't fully understand my initial post. Read it again.

[Vern Humphrey]

We're not talking uneducated laborers. These Hong Kongers will be businessmen/Women,
and very probably a number of Doctors.
Perhaps you didn't fully understand my initial post. Read it again.

Perhaps you didn't read my post carefully. I support accepting these educated people.

[clintonhater]

I support accepting these educated people.

So do I. But let's not forget that SOMEBODY is needed to pick the lettuce, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc. Lazy Americans won't do it, not as long as welfare, food stamps, is available.

[dryheat]

Only people from foreign countries seem to have the brains to be businessmen,engineers or doctors. Asia will overrun the planet anyway, may as well start now.

[clintonhater]

Asia will overrun the planet anyway...

Japan tried but failed, but China's plan is far more sophisticated & insidious than overt military aggression: control by economic influence & pressure; all over the Turd Word, they're spending billions on roads, dams, irrigation, other infrastructure projects, but ALWAYS with strings attached. It's how, for ex., they can arm-twist WHO to change the Wuhan Flu name (that the whole world was using) to the Covid BS.

[m1ashooter]

I don't think we will see a mass exodus from Hong Kong. I thought when the Brits lease expired and they had to pull out that they basically screwed the people from Hong Kong on the ability to immigrate to the UK.

[S.A. Boggs]

So do I. But let's not forget that SOMEBODY is needed to pick the lettuce, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc. Lazy Americans won't do it, not as long as welfare, food stamps, is available.

I pick mine. Machines are overtaking what humans use to do and agribusiness will find a way to do it more efficiently and cheaper.
Sam

[togor]

You like eating? Even now during the epidemic, eating good?

Thank a low-wage "essential" immigrant worker! Or don't thank them, I really don't care.

But the reality of the situation is that these people are continuing to feed you, doing much more for you than you are for them. No amount of high-minded preferences for doctors or PhDs or Europeans for immigrants is going to change that.

[shadycon]

I pick mine. Machines are overtaking what humans use to do and agribusiness will find a way to do it more efficiently and cheaper.
Sam

Machines are good to eliminate a lot of manual labor and industrial type jobs, but not all. People are still needed.

Ever try to get a problem solved by a phone call? 20 minutes listening to a computer about your account,If you can transfer to a human another long wait. Wrong department, transfer, computer hangs up. Start again. After 2 or 3 hrs finally get to a human that can actually help, problem solved in 5-10 minutes. Point is that machines can't do it all and at times compound the the time it takes to get something done.

[clintonhater]

Machines are overtaking what humans use to do and agribusiness will find a way to do it more efficiently and cheaper.
Sam

In the distant future, possibly, but not in the foreseeable future. Look at the predictions mags like Popular Science & Popular Mechanics were making in the '50s & '60s--that by this time, we would all own flying cars! How, for ex., can slaughter house work be mechanized?

[lyman]

Machines are good to eliminate a lot of manual labor and industrial type jobs, but not all. People are still needed.

Ever try to get a problem solved by a phone call? 20 minutes listening to a computer about your account,If you can transfer to a human another long wait. Wrong department, transfer, computer hangs up. Start again. After 2 or 3 hrs finally get to a human that can actually help, problem solved in 5-10 minutes. Point is that machines can't do it all and at times compound the the time it takes to get something done.

try pressing # or 0,

if that don't work, a few curse words into the phone will sometimes direct you right to a human,