“The ability to assimilate immigrants quickly may be our greatest competitive advantage in the twenty-first century.”
Ben Wattenberg Author: Fighting Words
Competing in the 21st Century
Who do We Want?
Poverty
Immigration Problem
What can you do?
Flattery
Words Seldom Seen: Overton Window
The Overton Window
Noun phrase: The range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.
Example: “He attempted to shift the Overton Window on immigration by proposing that, in order to build up our population to compete with China’s 1.3 billion people, the US admit 100 million immigrants from Latin America and Africa in the next decade.”
Thanks to Bob K. for bringing this very interesting concept to my attention.
Pio Pico Postcard
Trade
The last few months aside the rules for trade, migration and travel are the best they have ever been.
Walter Wriston wrote The Twilight of Sovereignty in 1992 and predicted that what the state was able to control would decrease over the next 30 years. It has happened and no matter how the media spin it we now have more trade, more tourism and more migration than ever before in history. The rules have followed the reality and no one is in charge.
Because of these changes billions of people live better than we ever dreamed of. There is much that we still need to accomplish for the poorest 10% but take a bow, poverty is almost ended.
Signs of Our Times 3
Good Idea!
And an indicator of our times.
Migration is a fact we have to deal with.