Friday, November 1, 2013

On the lighter side-Movies-Monsters University (2013)-Voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman

Our favorite fright fest monsters are back when they were not friends and how their friendship developed in this monster prequel to Monsters Inc. You have to see the first one to find out how this one goes. Excellent entertainment for everybody. Highly recommended

On the lighter side-Movies-R.I.P.D (2013)-Jeff Bridges, Ryan Gosling

Big loud action comedy buddy movie about a recently deceased cop who got hired in Rest in peace department- a sort of police for hauling dead people back from earth, where he tries to find out who killed him and why. Loud action and entertaining but not worth your money. Recommended only for DVD purposes only.

World of Finance: Immigrants and the economy-11

And you cannot force your new immigrants to marry the natives girls also. So skilled immigration will come with its own set of problems from the point of view of the host country. And for example even if they don’t how can you make sure that they will stay in the place you intend them to stay in the sparsely populated areas of the country. They may want to stay in a place where there are shops, entertainment, parks, work to go to, transportation etc. How the host country intends to stir them into areas where the population desperately needs to be replenished. Although this are the different scenarios I am painting but the countries need not be discouraged as a multi cultural society breeds tolerance and also there is no other way the population can grow from within but only from without. As Canada, the United States, Australia and other countries with less population have demonstrated that immigration has saved their own population from declining and their economy from collapsing. All the above that I have described makes immigration a complicated issue and you would not see the effects of it unless the immigrants start contributing to their host country and it may be many years before one can see the impact. The immigrants do contribute to society by way of communities, paying taxes, populating neighborhoods that have been vacated long time ago, increasing revenue base, preaching tolerance towards other cultures and learning about different people. So all these positive things should be emphasized but immigration should always be through legal means so that it is not fair to people who are waiting in line why the illegal ones gains just because they happen to in the country legally.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

World of Finance: Immigrants and the economy-10

If there is any other solution besides this let me know since I am at a loss to find out how to increase the population other than immigration since the robots can only replace so much and you need humans to populate a country. And if countries with declining population don’t want to increase immigration to their countries then at least they can go along with control immigration where you can only allow people with certain skills and education level to come there to live and work. But again this is no easy answer because in time these new educated immigrants would want to bring in their families and extended ones when they sponsor them who may or may not be as educated as wished for in the host country's immigrant policy. How to enforce is this policy is to ban the immigration of not sufficiently educated family members. Now you there can be some family members who would not be that educated like parents or other older relatives so how do you reconcile your immigration policy with it, Either you can try to educate them on your expense (not feasible) or bar them altogether (again not feasible since the new immigrants would want their parents to be with them). And if you are only going to give immigration to the students who have graduated from your universities then what if they would want to marry outside the country and then try to bring spouses into their adopted countries, how is that going to sit with the immigration policy.