Le Pen is a racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Fascist. Her POS father died a few days ago:
"Le Pen, who was convicted of racism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial, died Tuesday at the age of 96, according to an announcement by the far-right National Rally party he founded. "
https://www.politico.eu/article/fascist-visionary-jean-marie-le-pen-france-national-rally-left-wing/
Immigration:
"U.S. reliance on immigrants is up sharply. A study by Moody's Analytics concluded that for every 1% increase in immigration, GDP rose 1.15%. That's a 15% return on immigration. Meanwhile, widely referenced economic studies estimate that roughly 10% to 11% of U.S. GDP is supplied by immigrants. Some estimates put the total impact as high as 15% of GDP.
At current levels of economic output, even the lower 10% GDP estimate comes out to about $2 trillion a year in added GDP. It's a surprisingly large amount, a little over $6,000 per person, and the U.S. would be far less wealthy without it.
The U.S. economy needs immigrants to fill both low- and high-skill jobs, due to such factors as low fertility, a shortage of technical skills and Americans' work preferences.
Already, American businesses are dealing with the biggest labor shortage since records have been kept. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, roughly 6 million people are unemployed. But 7.3 million jobs are unfilled.
To expand and thrive, businesses need workers to replace those who leave. With unemployment near record lows, where will they find them?
For many, the answer is obvious: More immigration. And no, the need is not just for people to fill high-paying science and technology (STEM) jobs. Retail stores, restaurants and other service industries also need workers.
Census estimates are eye-opening. From 2015 to 2060, the population of native-born Americans will grow by about 34 million, and the population of immigrants by 64.1 million. Without those immigrants, there will be millions fewer workers and taxpayers. And a smaller economy.
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Keelai (35380)
3 days ago
"A 2017 study found that 28% of all physicians and surgeons were immigrants. Among nurses and psychiatric and home aides, 24% came from foreign shores. That's a quarter of our health care industry.
And immigrants' share of the health care workforce likely will grow. Due to an aging population and more chronic illness, health care is expected to add 2.4 million jobs by 2026, an increase of 18%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of those jobs will be filled by immigrants.
A study by the Center for Immigration Studies noted that 44% of medical scientists, 34% of software engineers and 25% of chemists in the U.S. were born in other countries. As the share of immigrants grows, their shares of these high-end jobs are expected to grow too.
Immigrant Patents, Business Formation
But that's not all. Immigrants are far more likely to start businesses and file patents than natives. More than half of all patents in the U.S. today come from foreigners, according to U.S. Patent Office data. Some 25.6% of patents come from immigrants, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a think tank that focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship. (Want to start a business? Learn five key steps to becoming a successful entrepreneur.)
From 2006 to 2012, a Kauffman survey of companies showed, immigrants were involved as founders or co-founders of 26% of all U.S. engineering and tech startups. And over half of Silicon Valley startups came from immigrants.
This is vital, since small startups account for the majority of U.S. jobs growth. Entrepreneurs cost the economy nothing; they create jobs, goods and services and wealth that benefit American citizens.
Another immigration fact: Immigrants own 18% of all small businesses, according to one recent study from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Center.
Some of the biggest U.S. corporate names began as immigrant startups — among them eBay, Google, PayPal and Yahoo."
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Keelai (35380)
3 days ago
In the beauty and cosmetology business, 63% are foreign-born. Among fruit and vegetable sorters, the share is 60%. It's over 50% for plasterers and stucco masons (59%), sewing machine operators (55%) and farmworkers (52%). While many of these jobs require skills, they require training rather than education.
Other occupations with a large immigrant workforce include housekeeping (50%), tailors and sewing (50%), drywall and ceiling installers (49%), and taxi drivers and chauffeurs (47%). These are, for the most part, low-wage jobs.
The bottom line: Immigrants are an integral part of the economy, and will be for a long time."
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MarkPh (507)
3 days ago
"Le Pen is a racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Fascist."
Correct, but has nothing to do with right wing politics.
It's authoritarian politics that does that, right wing is only about further enriching the already rich.
"A 2017 study found that 28% of all physicians and surgeons were immigrants. Among nurses and psychiatric and home aides, 24% came from foreign shores. That's a quarter of our health care industry."
And now you tell me, how many Americans could but aren't working in the health care industry for two reasons.
1 They didn't get the education required for that, because the entire health care industry saves the expenses of such an education by importing ready educated people from abroad.
2 Wages in these jobs are so low that Americans cannot pay rent from that.
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Keelai (35380)
3 days ago
They're far-right extremists.
They're certainly not left-wing Liberals.
I agree that the right-wing are pro-rich. But they also support far-right extremists. Look who is supporting Trump - Republicans.
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MarkPh (507)
3 days ago
Yeayea, here we go again, if the facts do not match the preset opinion, then the facts must be wrong.
Fascists are "center right far authoritarians" while Macron is a "far right moderate authoritarian".
Only in the US Trump is both at the same time a "far right AND far authoritarian".
The rich won't support Trump on his far authoritarian behavior, they only want the economically far right part, you'll see that when Musk drops Trump like a hot potatoe right after Trump gives him the tax break he wants.
Left wing isn't even in the same ball park.
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Keelai (35380)
2 days ago
The recent French elections had the political parties of the Left, the Republicans and Macron's centrist unite to defeat the Fascist far-right LePen party.
By American standards, the French are more socialist, or pro-working-class which is the opposite of authoritarianism. You won't find book bans, voter suppression, anti-abortion in France like in the U.S.
We have creeping Fascism/authoritarianism here.
Macron is not authoritarian. He passed stronger laws to protect abortion and created policy to increase women legislators. Authoritarians are anti-women. His policies and speeches are not anti-immigrant or racist. That's LePen.
His economic policy is more pro-business because he admires the U.S. and wants to use some of our ideas to become economically stronger. I think that's a mistake and he received a lot of pushback.
He does lean toward the Republican party by supporting business and the rich. Newscasters had referred to him as President of the rich. Again, just copying the U.S. model.
I think we're basically on the same page, but semantics may be getting in the way.
The president in France does hold more power because their government is more centralized. Local regions and municipalities cannot write separate laws like the U.S. can.
We both agree that Republicans are more pro-business and rich than Democrats. In the U.S., Republicans have moved toward authoritarianism which is what Trumpism is. That's less freedoms and democracy.
Musk also wants massive deregulation. He's basically a far-right Fascist. Look at the racist Fascist slime he's supporting in Europe.
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MarkPh (507)
2 days ago
Not sure where you copied this propaganda from, but that's just what it is, fake news and propaganda.
Unfortunately you're not capable of looking at an image that contradicts the text your copy says.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/france2024
Macron isn't a centrist, he's the furthest to the right of all parties in France.
No matter how often you repeat propaganda that has been made up by the right to distract from the fact who the furthest to the right is, it won't become true.
IFFFFFFFF Macron were a centrist, he wouldn't have such a huge problem with letting the left have influence in a coalition.
In his first attempt Macron tried building a government of 3 parties where the two smaller ones are far to the right and the bigger one is moderately left. Macron tried to make a contract that granted the right wingers what they want while the left was only supposed to give their votes without making a difference, a plan that crashed down in parlament upon the very first attempt of voting on anything.
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Rorikon (18111)
2 days ago
I was gonna disagree with MarkPh but after reading up on the National Rally, I do agree now. Le Pen has changed many things far from what her father did to move more to the moderate side of things. They used to want to leave the EU but now want to reform it among other things.
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MarkPh (507)
2 days ago
Most of the so called "far right" parties in Europe have understood that leaving the EU or the EUR would collapse their economy and throw them back into the middle ages, because whatever new currency they would come up with would balance the value of their currency to their economic strength and with Germany being so overwhelmingly strong in the economics of Europe, all the other countries would end up in hyper inflation.
LePen looks at the Turkish currency, where a similarly authoritarian government as LePen wants to create is in place and the currency is in free fall and from there it's not hard to conclude it's better to stay in the EU.
After all the so called "far right", isn't on the left, they are still in the right half of the spectrum, just not as far as the ones who made up the misleading definition of "far right".
However, LePen isn't anywhere near moderate in general, she's moderate in economic terms as in wanting to help the average local population and not enrich the already richest as fast as the economic right wants to, but on social issues LePen is a "far authoritarian" which means what she wants to do to help the locals is full of racism and authoritarian patronizing.
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Keelai (35380)
2 days ago
She's the same POS Fascist as her father. What she did was rebrand similar to the KKK wearing business suits instead of white sheets and calling themselves white nationalists. She still repeats the same xenophobic bigotry and in bed with other authoritarians but not as outwardly crude as her father. She changed the name of the party and distanced her self from her father a few years ago as her first step at rebranding.
Yes, change the EU from within by turning it into an illiberal, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, antidemocratic, white European nationalist and Christian-only organization that would make her ally Putin, Orbán and Trump happy.
She doesn't fool the French who suffered during WW2 from Fascism and Naziism. That's the reason her party is repeatedly rejected by them.
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moviechatterer (16049)
3 days ago
"right wing is only about further enriching the already rich."
Certainly thats what it means in terms of economics and taxation etc ,
but I dont think you can pigeonhole the term to only that in this day and age.
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MarkPh (507)
3 days ago
Yes you can, because for the authoritarian patronizing, the war mongering and everything else there's the social dimension of the political spectrum.
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Keelai (35380)
2 days ago
Not everyone wants to go to college. In pockets of the U.S. including my neighborhood, college was looked down on and dropping out of high school considered cool. Snobs went to college. Even on the MC boards, there are anti-college comments.
And most Americans aren't going to work on farms picking fruit in the blazing sun for low wages.
And still not enough babies.
We need immigration. Funny how a guy who married 2 immigrants started the U.S. xenophobia. But authoritarianism is anti-immigrant.
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MarkPh (507)
2 days ago
Have you ever had a closer look into the labor market?
McDonalds nowadays requires a college degree before you can apply for a job as a burger flipper, not because a college degree would be required for the job, but because there are so many desperate Americans looking for ANY kind of job with wages that at least can pay rent that McDonalds has the luxury of only hiring people with college degrees.
What do you think will happen to these low wages if you import even more immigrants into this situation?
Face it, aside of weapons America doesn't produce anything anymore, everything more complicated than a toaster has been outsourced to Asia, Mexico, etc., the US nowadays has 90% low paid service jobs and in those jobs the employers are trying to squeeze wages ever further down through ever more immigration.
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