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Sowell said that at this moment the illegal immigration is helping our economy a little bit more than it's hurting it, would it change your mind just for the short run? Go. I saw yes. I saw sure. I see some yeses. Interesting. I did not know if that would work. A lot of no's. Now if you said no what would be your reasoning? If your reasoning is about the illegal part remember that's the part I re…
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Fewer people at a certain age range equals lower crime rate. That is correct. If you have a higher percentage of senior citizens in the population that's a good point. Why have I never thought of that before? Yeah if you have a higher ratio of senior citizens your crime rate will go down theoretically and that's where we are. Well Scott benefit what are you talking about? More DoorDash robberies. Millionaires seem to love cheap labor. Yes yes.
You know when I talk about the fact that I'm friendlier to immigration even illegal immigration although I want zero illegal immigration but we also have to deal with the fact that it exists. If I seem softer on it and then you say to yourself well Scott that's easy for you to say because you just get cheap labor. You're right. You're right. That's exactly what you should say about me. You are absolutely correct that there's no way that I'm uninfluenced by the fact that it benefits me personally. Of course I am. Yeah immigration tends to be a personal problem. I don't know if you've noticed that right? Immigration tends to be a personal problem. If you've had experience with any immigrants or that world you have an opinion and if you don't you're dealing with it on some conceptual level and that's really different. But I don't deal with immigration on a conceptual level completely. So anybody who says I'm being biased by positive association with the immigrant community I want to tell you that's true. I am absolutely biased by repeated positive interactions with the illegal immigrant community. Consistently positive. And I don't know. There's nothing I can do about that right? I mean I could be aware of it. I could call it out. I could be transparent that it exists but I can't make it go away.
You know the whole thing, people won't remember what you said but they'll remember how you made them feel. I forget who said that famous quote but that's exactly true with the illegal immigrant community. I don't remember what they said but I always remember how they made me feel and they always make me feel great. So fairly consistently.
How many criminals do you know? Lots, lots. If you count the ones who haven't been caught it's everybody and pretty much everybody.
Which party do you think immigrants will vote for? Well you know famously people are noticing that it's changing, right? I think the funniest thing is that the Democrats think that the hard-working immigrants who understand motivation and how motivation and economics work because they're, you can't get closer to it than an illegal immigrant. That's as close as you can get to human motivation equals profit, right? Like they're living it. To imagine that the people who come out of that experience will turn into Democrats. Maybe, maybe. But I live in the real world.
But let me tell you a little secret. Well here's a California secret. Get into any mixed group of people and then where I live it's always mixed right? You don't have, it's pretty rare to be talking to a bunch of white people in California. There's always a mix. And then privately peel off one of the brown or black ones in your group and then talk about politics. You get a really different feel. It doesn't, I don't know if it's a local thing or what but I don't get anybody born in another country who is Democrat. People born in other countries actually I'm thinking of some exceptions now so I'm exaggerating too much. There are some exceptions but I'm always surprised when somebody born in another country came over here, worked hard, made something of themselves. They're obviously, they lead Republican because everything they did was a Republican plan. Work hard, stay in school, go to school, take care of your family. This pure Republican dogma is just it's their own version of it. And when they get here who are they going to? Religion? Yeah belief in God. Stevie says I'm so naive.
Here's what I think. I think that because there are a lot of Hispanic Democrat voters at the moment we imagine that that's how it will always go. But I think the Democratic Party of today is such a turnoff that an immigrant today being exposed to both of them for the first time would say well one's talking about pronouns and climate change that I don't even get. It's not my problem at the moment. And the other one wants to lower my taxes and you know it's tough on crime and says work hard. Like what do you, what do you? Yeah and the Hispanic community is not so big in the Latinx names. I mean that's all just coming from Democrats. Yeah everybody I know who came from Mexico loves capitalism. That's why they came here.
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