Tonight there was a report on BBC about emigration from New Zealand. It seems the best and brightest of the young people are leaving for greener pastures, and the government is looking for ways to keep them from leaving or to get them to return home after a short time abroad.
I looked for information about this on the web and found a couple of references (here and here). Most of what I found is about immigration, though. There is a lot of information about how to immigrate into New Zealand.
It got me to wondering whether this could happen in our own country, if Bush-Obama continue to run the economy into the ground. So here is a Q&A.
Q. New Zealand seems to be attempting to convince people to stay. What could President Obama do to convince young people to stay in the U.S.?
A. President Obama is not really into allowing Americans to choose. He prefers to use force to compel them to do what they don’t want to do.
Q. Example, please?
A. He is proposing to rescind the abortion conscience rule.
Q. Some New Zealanders say the weight of government needs to be reduced so young people will stay. Would President Obama be willing to reduce the size of government to accomplish something like that?
A. No.
Q. Well, what would he do.
A. He might close the borders — not to immigrants, but to emigrants.
Q. But that would make us like the old Soviet Union, wouldn’t it?
A. Yes, it would. As does his takeover of the automobile industry.
Q. But what about the Constitution?
A. What about it?
Q. Wouldn’t Americans object to something like that?
A. Maybe, maybe not. If they made too much of a fuss, he could do it gradually, by creating a universal system of compulsory volunteer service. Once people get used to the idea that they are obligated to the nation in exchange for bailout dollars (aka subsidized student loans), the next step would be easier.
Q. So you’re saying that the government takeover of GM, and the forcing of Rick Wagoner out of his job, could be a precedent for a closed border system?
A. Yes.
Q. What are the chances of this happening?
A. Hard to say. He has a lot of invasions of other instiutions on his plate right now. He might not want to get into a war of conquest on yet another front during his term in office.