Are you saying immigrants are like locusts, or just U.S. expats? Because that's the way your comment seems. I see a lot of Latin American immigrants and immigrants from all the other places flooding into FL, refusing to fully integrate into American society, especially by coming over here illegally in the first place, and then flat out demanding they get paid "under the table." Latin America's refused to help stem the illegal tide to the U.S. by fixing their own self created messes (and by allowing the Clowns to foment endless regime changes) and as a result, is just now experiencing what we've been experiencing for the last 60+ yrs. And they want to complain about it now?! That's rich, especially coming from corrupt, Cartel controlled countries that they are.
Maybe, those Americans should come back, and these illegals here in America should go back to where they came from, and help us clean up our messes here, and they can clean their messes "back home,"messes we've all helped create everywhere. The logic is ridiculous on both sides. It's like purposely and purposefully causing your boat to take on water and begin sinking, but instead of repairing it and keeping it afloat and operational, they're jumping ship as soon as they can for a "better" boat. Only, because of this logic, EVERY other boat is now damaged and taking on water, too.
I can't blame immigrants for seeking a better life, especially when the US government rolls out the red carpet in benefits and doesn't require them to assimilate or even minimally comply with immigration laws. But that's not the immigrants' fault that we're run by clowns.
Expats (and I'm generalizing) are well-off, tend to take advantage of the lower cost of living, but then don't really help out the areas they move to when they could. There are exceptions but there's a reason Americans have such a shitty reputation.
I think both should assimilate into their host countries, learn the language and be productive, but someone coming from a poor country to an industrialized one doesn't exactly have the same resources as a wealthy person moving to a "third world" country.
Does it matter whether they're rich or not? Neither learn the language or assimilate. Can't be a money problem.
Those poor people also don't have to commit tax fraud by working under the table. But they do, with no consideration of how much help they could give their gracious host country by paying their fair share of taxes.
Poor people move here, and Lower the Costs of Labor, mainly due to the fact that they learned how to build houses and such in Their Country, how to do Farm and Ranch Work, Mechanics, and other such Skilled Labor, but they do not require the Employer to Pay the exact same Costs of Labor as an American would....
Effect:: Lowered Skilled Labor Pay....
With U.S. Citizens moving to other Countries, they go there with Full Pockets, many may not be Millionaires here, but there, they can buy up a small, decent Ranch, or what is basically a Mansion, or maybe even a Business, or just a large enough piece of Land where the nearest neighbor isn't 50 feet away, but more like 200 feet, they go into town, and the store employees and owners, knowing that ""It's an America"", will raise the costs of items for those specific Individuals. So when it happens in one town that isn't a Tourist town, the locals just cannot keep up with the costs of Living there....
Effect:: Raised Cost of Living....
Either way, the Locals Lose, and they lose big time, and it doesn't matter where this happens, the Effect on the locals is devastating....
If they're going to ExPatriate, From the States, then they should be Barred from returning for at least 10 Years, and MUST take a new Citizenship in the Nation where they move to, if only so they are Forced to Contribute to their New Nation, but lots are not doing that, they're going there on a Tourist Visa and then staying After it has expired, and that's just wrong and immoral, and WE should pay for their Returns, of course, but then the State that they return to should charge them 10X the cost be being returned....
Are you saying immigrants are like locusts, or just U.S. expats? Because that's the way your comment seems. I see a lot of Latin American immigrants and immigrants from all the other places flooding into FL, refusing to fully integrate into American society, especially by coming over here illegally in the first place, and then flat out demanding they get paid "under the table." Latin America's refused to help stem the illegal tide to the U.S. by fixing their own self created messes (and by allowing the Clowns to foment endless regime changes) and as a result, is just now experiencing what we've been experiencing for the last 60+ yrs. And they want to complain about it now?! That's rich, especially coming from corrupt, Cartel controlled countries that they are.
Maybe, those Americans should come back, and these illegals here in America should go back to where they came from, and help us clean up our messes here, and they can clean their messes "back home,"messes we've all helped create everywhere. The logic is ridiculous on both sides. It's like purposely and purposefully causing your boat to take on water and begin sinking, but instead of repairing it and keeping it afloat and operational, they're jumping ship as soon as they can for a "better" boat. Only, because of this logic, EVERY other boat is now damaged and taking on water, too.
Help it make sense?
Honestly, I think a lot of expats are worse.
I can't blame immigrants for seeking a better life, especially when the US government rolls out the red carpet in benefits and doesn't require them to assimilate or even minimally comply with immigration laws. But that's not the immigrants' fault that we're run by clowns.
Expats (and I'm generalizing) are well-off, tend to take advantage of the lower cost of living, but then don't really help out the areas they move to when they could. There are exceptions but there's a reason Americans have such a shitty reputation.
I think both should assimilate into their host countries, learn the language and be productive, but someone coming from a poor country to an industrialized one doesn't exactly have the same resources as a wealthy person moving to a "third world" country.
Does it matter whether they're rich or not? Neither learn the language or assimilate. Can't be a money problem. Those poor people also don't have to commit tax fraud by working under the table. But they do, with no consideration of how much help they could give their gracious host country by paying their fair share of taxes.
And yet, the near equivalent in Effects....
Poor people move here, and Lower the Costs of Labor, mainly due to the fact that they learned how to build houses and such in Their Country, how to do Farm and Ranch Work, Mechanics, and other such Skilled Labor, but they do not require the Employer to Pay the exact same Costs of Labor as an American would....
Effect:: Lowered Skilled Labor Pay....
With U.S. Citizens moving to other Countries, they go there with Full Pockets, many may not be Millionaires here, but there, they can buy up a small, decent Ranch, or what is basically a Mansion, or maybe even a Business, or just a large enough piece of Land where the nearest neighbor isn't 50 feet away, but more like 200 feet, they go into town, and the store employees and owners, knowing that ""It's an America"", will raise the costs of items for those specific Individuals. So when it happens in one town that isn't a Tourist town, the locals just cannot keep up with the costs of Living there....
Effect:: Raised Cost of Living....
Either way, the Locals Lose, and they lose big time, and it doesn't matter where this happens, the Effect on the locals is devastating....
If they're going to ExPatriate, From the States, then they should be Barred from returning for at least 10 Years, and MUST take a new Citizenship in the Nation where they move to, if only so they are Forced to Contribute to their New Nation, but lots are not doing that, they're going there on a Tourist Visa and then staying After it has expired, and that's just wrong and immoral, and WE should pay for their Returns, of course, but then the State that they return to should charge them 10X the cost be being returned....