Illegal immigration
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 17:49
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Compared to other developed (industrialized) nations, Americans take fewer vacations and work more hours. However, disputing Brewski's claim that immigrees are lazy good-for-nothings, the unemployment rate among illegal immigrants is actually lower than among USA citizens. (Dont' ask me how someone came up with THAT figure! I'll try and find the report.)
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Quote:In addition, the Mexican government actually provides information on how to evade US Immigration.
If you want to talk about hypocrites you might want to start with the Mexican government
The "special relationship" that Bush and Fox share is the "special relationship" of two extremely corrupt wealthy men: one who uses emigration to let the steam out of incipient reform at home, the other who uses immigration to lower wages and benefits in favor of corporations. And we're expected to play that rigged game? I don't think so.
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| Country | Hours |
| Korea | 2390 |
| Poland | 1984 |
| Mexico | 1980 |
| Czech Rep | 1882 |
| Japan | 1828 |
| Greece | 1811 |
| USA | 1777 |
source: OECD (2004), OECD in Figures, OECD, Paris.
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Thanks, Citizen, I thought that might be the case.
Stat challenged Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Do you have stats or links to support your highly dubious 'fact'?
Originally posted by Brewski:
Americans in general are the hardest working people in the entire world when compared with other nations. That is a fact.
There's a lot of hard-workin' peeps in the world...Chrisisall
I suspect he's refering to GDP per capita, a statistic where the US does very well (though not as well as Norway or Finland.)
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Isn't GDP a measure of wealth, not work?
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Citizen, is that North or South Korea at the top of that list?
Just curious.
EDIT: Never mind, the figure for Korea will probably be South Korea.
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Yes indeed it is, but GDP/capita is (eroneously) used as a shorthand for productivity.
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So if you want to raise your productivity you just raise the price of your widget. B/c productivity is 'value' of goods/ services produced per work unit (person-hours).
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In essence yes. There are additional complications. For example if "China Inc" buys "America Corp" lock stock and barrel for $3B then GDP goes up that much because $3B enters the economy. Certain kinds of government loads (or the interest on them??) also count. So if China buys the right kind of bonds to cover US debts the US GDP actually rises.
In addition the GDP/capita works looks better for single integrated markets or for countries with large capital exports per citizen.
The US gets a good score because american steel is used to make american screws that are used in American parts that are put in American cars. Each of those industries return information on their profits so that single piece of steel gets counted multiple times. If Korean steel is used to make Japanese screws that end up in a German car the German economy doesnt see the same multiplier.
Recently economists started to treat the whole of the EU as one market and the overall GDP rose just from doing the calculation that way (ie no "real" increase.)
Norway does well because it exports oil (big ticket export item) and has a small population.
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