American Economy and Immigration - A Day Without A Mexican

And thus the naked hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with pale cast of thought

Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 1

Senator Barack Obama, President of the United States of America was on a roll with sweeping reforms that have seen budgetary cuts via Technological innovation. No history lesson today, my blog articles will suffice; Privatization of Space Travel to the tune of US$19 billion dollars as per my blog article entitled “Alternative Energy and the Ion Drive Engine - Star Trek and Andromeda” as well as the article “NASA and Space X - Little House on the Prairie” reducing the cost of running Government via the implementation of Solar Power initiative spearheaded by Energy Secretary Steven Chu as explained in my blog article entitled “Alternative Energy and the President - Three Days of the Condor”.

Throw in more savings on the US Government Administrative expenditure via reducing the cost of software via going to the Cloud as per my blog article entitled “Google Chrome Press Event - Naked Gun 33 and a Third The Final Insult” the obvious becomes clear: these are clever technology driven Austerity Measures. A sprinkle of Venture Capitalism also was part of the recipe for recovery sprinkled on by the Obama Administration in my blog articles too numerous to list, searchable via the title “Alternative Energy”. So the question begs: Why the backlash against immigrant labour as per the disturbing Jamaica Observer article entitled “EDITORIAL: To Dream the American Dream”, published Sunday, January 02, 2011, The Jamaica Observer?

The Obama Administration has been cleverly administering these technology based “austerity” measures while trying to wean the American Economy as a whole off its addiction to Foreign Based Oil, evident from the seven (7) year ban on Offshore Oil Drilling as stated in the article “U.S. Halts Plan to Drill in Eastern Gulf”, published December 1, 2010 by JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, The New York Times. What was the biggest clue was really the push to All-Electric Vehicles as suggested in my blog articles entitled “Alternative Energy and All-Electric Cars - WarGames” and “Alternative Energy and Solar Power - Transformers”.

Probably the biggest signpost from the Year 2010 the explosion of DeepWater Oil Well off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday April 20^th 2010 was a watershed moment that has brought the Americans to this long term decision. All-Electric Vehicles are now here to stay and look to be a big hit by the Summer of 2011, despite lackluster initial sales, which are being blamed on lack of supply as opposed to low demand, as with fifty thousand (50,000) pre-orders, that is demand on a scale equivalent to an Apple iPhone as per the article “Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf post small December Sales”, published Sunday, January 02, 2011 by AP via The Jamaica Observer – if you factor in, using inverse mathematical ratios, the US$40,280 for the 2011 Chevy Volt and US$32,780 for the Nissan Leaf sticker shock price.

A Classic battle is shaping up in the Automotive Industry, folks: GM engineering from the good ‘ole Windy City of Detroit vs the Japanese. This is something positive to take your mind off the Economy, which will slowly begin to rebound as soon as the American Economy COMPLETELY weans itself off Foreign Imported Oil and switches over to its Shale Gas (English Equivalent: Natural Gas) of which they have a two hundred (200) year supply using an extraction method called Hydraulic Fracturing or “Fracking” [American colloquial] as per the BBC New video entitled “Energy alternative: Shale Gas extraction in the US”, published 21 December 2010 23:09 GMT, BBC News as well as my article featured on Administrator Kirk’s Geezam blog entitled “The American Race Towards Alternative Energy”.

Ironically, “Fracking” is a modification of the method used by the Canadians to extract oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada using superheated steam, but this time combines this superheated steam with fine sand, which displaces underground gas cavities, the gas, having nowhere to go, dissolving into the superheated steam, which is collected under pressure from a separate borehole. The obvious side effect of Shale Gas dissolving into water that seeps into local wells is a phenomenon great for YouTube videos but is a phenomenon restricted to homeowners who live close by and use private wells on their property.

Just in time too, as the EU Recession is right on schedule as predicted of the demise of the PIIGS and the eminent collapse of the Greek Economy as time by my blog article entitled “Apple iPad and the House of Representatives - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and the upwards trending of Oil Prices, predicted to top out at US$100 per barrel by the Summer of 2011.

So it is rather strange and unfortunate that the Senate has voted against the so-called American Dream Act, more correctly known as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act that would have legitimized many an immigrant who call the United States of America Home as per the article “EDITORIAL: To Dream the American Dream”, published Sunday, January 02, 2011, The Jamaica Observer – and whose labour is critical to rescuing the slowly sinking Titanic (1997) that is the once great and mighty US of A.

Apparently, the Americans, nervous about a Second Recession, have become xenophobic again and are trying to keep out the much needed cheap immigrant labour from apparently just using up what appears be “scarce” resources, the ONLY rational I can see in their decision, as immigrants typically take low paying Blue Collar jobs in the Healthcare and Construction fields that Americans in their snobbery and College Degrees seeking scarce White Collar jobs refuse to lower themselves. Meanwhile Jamaicans with College Degrees, like my female friend from C&W now in New York, have to accept such menial low paying jobs and grin and bear it, dreaming every day of immigrating to Canada. Strange indeed!

Somewhat like our haute couture French and their treatment of the Roma people, akin to their treatment of Haiti over the years, now attracting possible legal action from the EU Commission as per the article “EU may take legal action against France over Roma”, published 14 September 2010 16:21 GMT, BBC News. Guess none of them saw the movie A Day Without a Mexican (2004), so we must share the sentiments of Senator Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, quote: “It is disappointing that common sense did not prevail today; My administration will not give up on the Dream Act or on the important business of fixing our broken immigration system”.  Immigrants as scapegoats for all the ills of the America Society is what this unfortunate Republican and Tea Party led vote declares, common-sense slanted, so I have yet another reason why I love Jamaica – and would prefer to immigrate to Canada.

Guess the job numbers are part of the reason for the decision as well, based on the statistics of the Washington Policy think tank The Economic Policy Institute as stated in the article “Many US companies hiring overseas”, published Wednesday, December 29, 2010, AP, The Jamaica Observer, which may be politically aligned to the Conservative Republican Right Wing who are possibly behind the anti-immigration sentiment now obviously rearing its ugly head thought the United States of America in this their worst Recession since WWII.

With the obvious Jamaican connection to foreign companies such as PayLess Shoesource and NetFlix, now going International and coming to even backwater places such as Jamaica to make more revenue a sign of how BAD the Economic Reality REALLY is in the US of A as explained in my blog article entitled “JDX and PayLess - First Dove of a Coming Recovery”, I would like to reiterate the fact that I do not envy Americans……..well, maybe for their gadgets, I must truthfully admit.

The implications of these decisions by the Americans are all too clear: Work in the US of A but becoming a Permanent Resident via the various legal means is now effectively closed. More interestingly, Canada with their immigration friendly policies due to their shortage of people with skills since the late 80’s, as cold as it is, is beginning to look a lot warmer than the United States of America, whose lack of “common sense” to paraphrase the US President, in light of their Health Care burden due to an increasingly ageing population akin to the Japan, now means that the Americans may get a little taste of what was parodied in the movie A Day Without a Mexican (2004).

More reason to love my homeland Jamaica! Plus, it will aid in the rebuilding of our nation, as brain drain is a problem in Jamaica, losing so many of our best and brightest to a land that does not really love you. Citizenship and Immigration to Canada never looked warmer as prognosticated earlier in my blog article entitled “JDX and the Economy - The Winter of my Discontent”.