Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a case for immigration, arguing immigrants were needed to “start new businesses” and to “do some of the jobs that Americans don’t want to do.”
Bloomberg said,”Well, change is always difficult to deal with because it takes you into the unknown and it’s much more comfortable to continue to do what you’re doing. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t let you do that. You have to change. And I think what’s happening is some industries are going away, some industries are coming back. What we need to do is to have a more global trade because that creates jobs in America.”
He continued,”Unfortunately, some of the politicians try to convince the public the reverse, but it’s just not true. We need to be able to export our products around the world. We need to be able to buy raw materials from around the world, to build our products and we need to be able to retrain our people and start new businesses. So we need immigrants here to start new businesses, we need immigrants here to do some of the jobs that Americans don’t want to do, and Americans want jobs that pay more and require more training and that’s great. But somebody has to fill in behind them.”
(h/t Grabien)
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