tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post1343752982115024036..comments2023-09-23T11:16:00.352+02:00Comments on The Franco-American Flophouse has moved: Immigrant Job CreatorsVictoria FERAUGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319699673885400472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-68334914599668208142012-06-25T08:33:34.337+02:002012-06-25T08:33:34.337+02:00@Fly. I had to laugh at your first sentence. Ind...@Fly. I had to laugh at your first sentence. Indeed, governments do worship at the altar of the high rollors. I think they may hope that some of it rubs off on them - a little glory by proximity?<br /><br />"Something to offer" is a tough one. France, for example, is hurting for nurses but naturally the medical profession doesn't see it that way. Same for IT workers in the US and H1-B visas. Maybe money is used here because it is easy to quantify - who can argue with 1 million U.S. dollars? But then in a weird way that becomes the market value of citizenship - if you have the cash you can buy citizenship almost anywhere in the world: US, UK New Zealand and so on.<br />A 'cat among the pigeons" question. What if we turned this around and said that citizens, in order to prove that they have something to offer, had to pony up some cash (or come up with a business/career plan) to retain their citizenship. What if failure to do so would result in a strong encouragement to find another home? This has actually been tried. In earlier times this is what the UK did with its "useless" - they sent them to the US and Canada :-)Victoria FERAUGEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319699673885400472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-21990195765432490012012-06-23T07:43:17.837+02:002012-06-23T07:43:17.837+02:00Governments think in terms of high rollers...being...Governments think in terms of high rollers...being staffed by high rollers themselves or worshiping the idea of same.<br /><br />I welcome immigration, but on the basis that the potential immigrant has something to offer....contact with Turkish immigrants to France showed me that the men came to work in low wage industries - but a number of them set up their own firms - seeing a need and filling the slot in the market.<br />Then there the second wave... the push to get visas for the cousins, etc. by marriage to a Turkish girl living in France and out came the useless...the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.com