Back to episode — Episode 1321 Scott Adams - Kids in Cubicles at the Border, Musk Robs Poor to Colonize Mars per Bernie
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aster the curve falls just like you'd expect. But it didn't take long for people to say, "Well here's my chart of other countries who have exactly the same curve and they're not vaccinating much at all." To which I say, damn it. Damn it again. We actually, is it true that we can't tell if the vaccinations are working and that we'll never know? When I say we'll never know I don't mean that scienc…
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But it feels like Biden has given us a bad situation and then on top of it made it non-transparent. Oh, that's not good. That's not good.
All right. Southern states should form a sanctuary coalition, somebody's saying, to fix this themselves. I don't know how they do that. Somebody says, "Boy you are easy." Well don't get me wrong. I think that Trump's policy on the border was the smart one and it feels like we're going to end up back there eventually.
So I do think, well let me say right out loud, I'll say out loud what people don't want to say. If we don't make it really hard for children too many of them will come and that won't be good for them either. So I'll say what most adults don't want to say is we have to probably make it really, really bad for kids otherwise the situation gets out of control. Unfortunately we live in a cruel world and having boundaries and borders and rules and laws and stuff like that, we don't really have an option for that stuff. It's not like you can just accept them or not accept them. We need to be able to say out loud.
And by the way if I were president I would say that out loud. I would say just the way I'm saying now. I would say, "Look, we want to be good to kids but we need to make it hard on them otherwise we'll have a worse situation."
Now one of the things that I wonder about is whether this migrant crisis is going to hurt us or help us. Don't you assume that tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border, you kind of assume it's bad, don't you, for the economy? But I don't know. I actually don't know. It might not be.
Because I would need, I think I would need a little help on the economics decision here. Let's say that humans have different economic values. If an 80 year old immigrant came across the border I would say that's going to be expensive because the 80 year old is not going to work probably but might have health problems, might be a burden.
But what happens if a 14 year old comes across the border? A 14 year old probably has a good chance of learning English well enough by the time they're an adult. They're probably going to get an upgrade in education and the odds of them becoming productive citizens is pretty good. Most countries need an influx of young people no matter how they get them
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or else your economy stalls out. So we don't have a choice of having lots of young people and you can either give birth to them or bring them in from immigration. But young people are like gold as humans go, as human beings go. Mexico sent us their best. I think that's the truth. You know Trump is famous for saying they're not sending their best. That's the adults, right? Because the adults incl…
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