Tag: immigration

Immigration and Economy

It’s been eleven years since Angela Merkel imported about a million young immigrants who were supposed to help the German economy and make up for the failure of Germans to have the children required to sustain the German social welfare system. And the verdict is not a positive one.

German auto giant BMW is planning to slash some 8,000 jobs globally by the end of 2027, according to several news media outlets, including Reuters and Bloomberg. German workers are expected to be particularly affected as the manufacturer is dealing with high production costs in Europe, as well as plunging sales in China, according to the reports.

The automaker employed 87,436 people in Germany as of late 2025, which accounted for more than a half of its global headcount. The company has already been making gradual reductions, with a reported decrease of 2.3% compared to 2024, according to Bloomberg.

It comes just a day after another German carmaker, Porsche, announced plans to eliminate another 5,000 jobs by 2035, bringing its total planned reduction to around 9,400 positions. Its parent company, Volkswagen, is considering slashing up to 100,000 jobs amid a protracted industrial slump caused by high energy prices. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) warned last week that the nation’s industrial sector was losing 15,000 jobs every month in what it described as a “critical” situation.

The “immigration is good for the economy” lie cannot be hammered hard enough. It was always false, but it was just barely possible to appeal to the abstract theory in the absence of any conclusive evidence refuting it. But, as with Darwin and DNA, the evidence is now available, and it conclusively and comprehensibly refutes the Post WWII-era justification.

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Immigration Economics

In which Germany demonstrates, again, that mass immigration is not, and has never been, actually good for the economy:

Friedrich Merz’s desperate attempt to appear tough on migration took another blow this week, after it was revealed that close to half the taxpayer cash spent on the Bürgergeld (citizens’ allowance) continues to go to individuals without German citizenship. Figures show that the Federal Employment Agency handed out almost €47 billion in benefits in 2025, and that 46.6% of this went to foreigners.

Right-wing news site NIUS on Wednesday reported that “the massive influx [of migrants] from non-European countries”—especially since 2015—“is increasingly pushing Germany’s social welfare system to its limits.” That is despite German Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil (SPD) insisting last month that “the migration of recent years has significantly stabilised the German social security system—even if some give the impression that the opposite is true.”

Payments cover basic income support, as well as housing and heating costs.

The devil, as always, is revealed in the contradiction between the theory and the subsequent numbers. The idea that immigration boosts the economy is trivially true because it is a tautology dependent upon a definition of the economy as something measured by Gross Domestic Product.

C + I + G = GDP.

So, if you allow 10 immigrants and the government gives them money to spend, both C (consumer spending) and G (government spending) automatically go up. It’s financed by increasing the debt. The economy “grows” and the immigration is “good for the economy”. This is true whether there is one immigrant or one billion; if economists actually believed their own nonsense, then they would advocate for encouraging the entirety of India to immigrate.

And yes, it’s just possible that Canadian economists are actually that dumb, which would explain a lot about the current state of Canada.

The problem is that because immigrants primarily consume and do not produce anything except crime – the service industries in which the employed minority predominantly work is, by definition, not productive – they observably, inevitably, and structurally weaken the economy. As the sclerotic economies of all the countries that immigration has theoretically enhanced are now beginning to show.

All that mass immigration has really accomplished in economic terms is provide new debtors, thereby allowing the banks to remain pseudo-solvent for an additional decade or two. But not only has it not solved any problems, it has significantly exacerbated the existing ones.

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Germany Bankrupts Itself

Apparently all those migrants did not, in fact, turn out to be good for the economy:

Germany has recorded its highest number of corporate bankruptcies in more than two decades, with nearly 5,000 companies filing for insolvency in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

A total of 4,996 companies filed for insolvency in April-June, up 9% from the previous quarter and marking the highest second-quarter figure since 2005, the institute said in a report published on Thursday.

The increase spanned almost all major sectors, including construction, real estate, trade, hospitality, and services, affecting around 45,500 jobs.

In June alone, 1,702 companies filed for insolvency, 20% more than a year earlier and 80% above the pre-pandemic average for the month.

The fundamental problem with all the Smart Boy reasoning about things is that they always try to reduce everything to a simple binary with no tangents or consequences. Even now, as services are overextended, housing prices are shooting through the roof, and unemployment is rising, you will hear the government policy-makers mindlessly intoning “we need more immigrants for the labor force”. And less-intellectually challenged ones will try to add a caveat about only “high-skill labor” or some other such nonsense.

But the reality is, has always been, and will always be that a high-skill foreign laborer comes attached with a low-skill wife, several useless children, three criminal cousins and two sets of useless parents. Except when the high-skill foreign laborer is coming from a similarly-advanced and compatible culture, the net impact is usually very negative, as we’re now seeing in Germany, the UK, the United States, and even Japan.

When Korean immigration into Japan continues to be an observable problem 70 years after the fact, there is no chance that the various third-world immigrations into the European world are going to end well for anyone. They never should have been permitted in the first place, and the ultimate responsibility for the inevitable outcome rests with those who permitted and encouraged it.

UPDATE: The current government isn’t going to fix the problem. Especially when all they have to do is rebuild the Russian pipeline and start buying Russian natural gas again.

The German government will introduce an energy levy to fund the construction of a national gas reserve. German industry, which is already struggling with soaring energy costs, will bear the brunt of the levy.

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They Were Never American

One can’t honestly call them traitors, or their actions betrayals.

Meta’s betrayal is crystal clear:

They’re firing 4,875 Americans on July 22 while filing for thousands of new H-1B visas in 2026 alone.

This is exactly why the H-1B program is dangerous. Big Tech uses it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.

The H1B program needs to be abolished

Most US-based big tech is no more American than Alibaba or Deepseek. Which, of course, is why they’re perfectly happy to disemploy Americans and hire foreign labor, whether it is cheaper or not.

How many times do Paper Americans have to prove they are not Americans before Americans believe them?

Big tech shouldn’t be bailed out or awarded government contracts, it should be nationalized.

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The Useless College Degree

It used to be that at least the possession of a university degree meant that you weren’t an innumerate, half-illiterate peasant. This is no longer the case.

Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”

According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development – a forum for 38 high-income, predominantly Western countries – a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math at a level which, in a more functional society, would be alarming for a middle schooler.

The survey, first spotted by the Economist, tested around 160,000 people of all ages, across all 38 member states. It found that across all OECD member countries, a full 8 percent of college students are reading at the level of a ten-year-old, if not worse. While countries like Germany and France rang in at under 5 percent, countries like Poland, Israel, and the United States blew the curve at 21, 20, and 14 percent, respectively.

The numbers aren’t much better when it comes to math.

Across OECD countries, 9 percent of college students do math at or below a ten-year-old level. In Italy, the US, and Slovakia, that figure jumps to over 15 percent — only outdone by Israel, where roughly 21 percent of college students were underachieving at the same low benchmark.

This certainly puts the lie to the concept of Progress, or the idea that we are smarter than our ancestors because Science. But giving pieces of papers to peasants no more makes them educated or intelligent than giving pieces of paper to foreigners modifies their genetics.

Part of the reason for the decline of the Western countries is the mass importation of sub-100 IQs bringing down the average. But a more significant element is the convergence of the schools and universities, neither of which are still capable of performing what used to be their primary functions.

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Diversity Victory Lap

It’s not white supremacy that is going to cause massive violence across the West. It’s diversity doing victory laps:

Xbox Indian CEO Asha Sharma just announced firing 3,200 Americans.

She filed for 5,000 H-1B visa hires this year.

Asha was appointed CEO of Xbox in February by Indian Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

How is this not a matter of national security? Why are any corporations being permitted any H-1B visa hires?

What happened to the real Donald Trump?

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The Decline is Real

Remember when they told you that America has plenty of room for all those immigrants? And when they said Americans needed to reduce their dependence upon nuclear power and fossil fuels?

Well, the demand for electricity now surpasses the ability of American power plants to supply it.

  • The largest U.S. power grid operator has issued a Energy Emergency Alert – Level 2 (EEA2) because it is “NO LONGER ABLE TO PROVIDE EXPECTED ENERGY REQUIREMENTS.” According to the PJM Emergency Procedures Website, Electric Utilities MUST begin cutting the energy load immediately: The ⁠alert was issued to increase reserves on the system and avert outages during peak demand around ​6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Friday, it said. PJM also notified neighboring regional grids, including in New York ​and the Midwest, that electricity exports from PJM may be curtailed, a procedural step that allows those neighboring regions to plan accordingly.
  • Consolidated Edison Company, the electric utility for the five boroughs of New York City, has had to cut power levels by eight percent (8%) in areas of Brooklyn and Queens.   The announcement reads as follows: “We are asking customers in parts of Queens and Brooklyn to conserve energy while crews complete equipment repairs. As a precaution to help maintain reliable service, voltage has been reduced by 8% in neighborhoods including Glendale, Forest Hills, Forest Hills Gardens, Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village, Long Island City, Hunters Point, Sunnyside, Sunnyside Gardens, Woodside, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Dyker Heights, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Flatbush, and Bensonhurst.
  • Liars. It’s 25% less here in Forest Hills.

Sooner or later, reality always intrudes. Not only can we touch the real, but the real will eventually touch even the most fevered ideological imaginations. 250 years is a very good run, but the USA will not make it to a third centennial.

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Convergence in the UK

It’s been a little disappointing to me how the concept of convergence I highlighted in SJWs Always Lie never found any traction, because it’s an extremely useful predictive model for institutional failure. And so people continue being surprised when converged institutions do what they always do, and refrain from taking any precautions whatsoever against convergence.

The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a “hurdle” for minority candidates.

The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.

This isn’t diversity.

This is institutional self-sabotage.

It is institutional self-sabotage, which is absolutely inevitable in every converged institution. Not likely, not probable, inevitable.

Every converged institution becomes incapable of performing its primary function due to the fact that its priorities no longer include performing those functions.

I think it may be time to start thinking about putting a crowdfund together for SJWs Always Project to see if there is still a significant demand for that.

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Germany Learns the Hard Way

An African team has never won the World Cup.

And Germany had never lost a penalty shootout in the World Cup until yesterday. But although the media prefers not to discuss it, everyone in football knows that Africans are notoriously poor at taking penalties.

And now both Germany and Holland are out of the World Cup in the first knockout stage, defeated by football powerhouses Paraguay and Morocco.

It’s almost as if relying upon people who have never won the World Cup when playing for their own nations to win it for your own is a suboptimal strategy.

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It’s Too Late Now

Law-abiding conservatives and immigration-loving liberals alike are wringing their hands over the popular chord that CITIZEN VIGILANTE has struck with the people of the West. The point is not whether it is a good movie, or a successful movie, or not, its significance can be seen in the viscerally fearful reactions to it.

I watched the film. This is disturbing. I understand the visceral reaction to the injustice portrayed in the film, but I worry that unhinged members of our society might try to copy the main character. There has to be a better way to deal with this very real threat than resorting to vigilantiism. Let’s use our voices and our votes to change the policies that are allowing the atrocity of mass illegal migration rather than resorting to violence.
WE can do better!

No, we can’t. That’s the problem. There isn’t a better way any more, there isn’t even a different way, because the very forces that have brought the West to this juncture have relentlessly prevented the people of the West from having any voice in their own invasion and subjugation. Popular approval for this program of legal, government-assisted invasion was never, ever, sought. Every attempt to stop it through political means was thwarted in an illegitimate manner by the system. Mass immigration, political refugees, and migration have ALWAYS been very politically unpopular. No one ever voted for open borders. No one in Minneapolis ever asked to be invaded by Somalis. Every time a European country voted against its own submission to the EU, people were paid off and it was forced to vote again until it voted “the right way”.

Just because something is done legally, or by government agents, does not mean that it is right. And just because something is deemed illegal, or government agents attempt to prevent it, does not mean it is wrong. To even bring up the question of “legality” in this regard is a category error.

The question isn’t if members of every Western society are going to copy the main character sooner or later, it is how many thousands will do so, and who their targets are going to be. The ability of the “victims services” agencies to pay off the victims’ families and “prevent anti-immigrant violence” is already being tested; until recently, the mere existence of these agencies and how they provide the families with press releases and talking points was considered a conspiracy theory. And it won’t just be “the West” as it won’t surprise me if Japan takes the lead in this regard.

The estimated 250,000 girls and young women raped in the UK alone by Pakistanis and other immigrants deserve the justice that their government absolutely refuses to give them. The same is true of the victims in France, in Germany, in Ireland, and everywhere else. And given the response to this movie, it is very much in harmony with the zeitgeist and we can expect a much more significant upheaval than the singular justice provided by a single individual in the movie. Citizen Vigilante isn’t the issue here; Society Vigilante is what is most likely in a lot of our futures.

As I have repeatedly predicted for over a decade, by the time this is all over, there will be statues to St. Breivik all over Europe; he may even end up being named a literal saint by the post-inquisition church. Look up the deeds of the men to whom statues have historically been erected if you doubt me. And never forget that 100 percent of the blame for the current and future bloodshed falls on the wicked hands of the people who created all of this hatred, division, and violence by knowingly introducing the elements required to produce it. Self-defense is a God-given right for both an individual and for a nation, no matter how foreign rulers or treasonous evil rulers try to prevent it.

Can you imagine Megyn Kelly saying this on Fox News ten years ago?

“Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us… GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!”

Blood is not paperwork. Nationality is neither residence nor citizenship. Every nation, every people, have the immutable right to cast out the foreigners from their midst if that is their will. And every nation, every people, have a moral duty to do so when the foreigners are preying upon their women and their children.

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