A Ponzi scheme is a scam that can only continue as long as new victims sign up. Eventually, the scam falls down under its own weight.
The major parties’ “Big Immigration” plan for Australia works the same way.
Politicians have relied on ever-increasing levels of immigration for decades.
Immigrants grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The GDP is a measure of all the economic activity happening in the country. Every purchase, sale and government dollar spent counts towards the total GDP.
Every new immigrant that arrives needs to spend money to survive, as we all do. This spending on food, housing and other essentials all adds in to the total GDP of the country.
Politicians want higher GDP numbers. If total GDP shrinks for two quarters in a row, the country is defined as being in a recession. Going into a recession is a political disaster for government. They want to avoid it at all costs.
The government’s solution to avoid an ugly recession is easy: just keep immigration levels high and the total GDP will keep going up!
The problem is, total GDP doesn’t measure how good our lives are. It doesn’t measure affordability, access to services or happiness. The average GDP per-person (or per-capita) tells us more.
In fact, before COVID, Australia was in a “per-capita recession”.[2] This means that while the total GDP was still going up because of immigration, the average GDP per person was actually getting worse.
Everything seemed fine to the government. On paper, total GDP was going up so we weren’t in an official recession. Out in the real world, the economy was getting worse on average for every individual Australian.
Like any Ponzi scheme, the immigration scam will eventually buckle under its own weight. As more immigrants arrive, they put more pressure on our hospitals, roads, housing and rental markets and other infrastructure. The pressure builds up far quicker than we can build infrastructure to catch up to the population growth.
With more pressure on essential services, Australia is less productive, dragging down the average GDP. The Government notices this and has to increase immigration even more to keep the total GDP up, yet this immigration puts even more pressure on our essential services dragging the average GDP down again.
This continues in a vicious cycle. The total GDP keeps going up and life for the average Australian keeps getting worse. Increasing immigration is like pouring fuel on a fire that immigration started. As the problem gets worse, the government needs to bring in more immigration to cover it up.
At least 650,000 immigrants will arrive in Australia over the next two years, a surprise increase of more than 50 percent on forecasts in the October 2022 Budget.[3]
If this exponential increase is allowed to continue, eventually the economy and our essential services will buckle. We are already seeing the signs of Australia bursting at the seams.
Australia is already in the middle of a housing and rental crisis. Many young first-home buyers are completely priced out of the market. Desperate tenants continue to tell horror stories of unaffordable rent increases.
Every single one of the 650,000 arrivals will need to find a home, meaning the horror stories of today are just the start of the pain to come. We can’t build the houses quick enough, especially if the government locks up everyone’s’ land to save the Koala trees. The increased demand will skyrocket rents and make houses even more unaffordable.
The immediate decision we need to take as a country is clear. We must immediately cut immigration to net-zero. That means that Australia only takes the same amount of arrivals as people who depart the country.
We must use this time to build essential infrastructure. We need to allow essential services time to catch up to our current population level.
Most of all, we need the government to stop doing things to make themselves look good on paper, and actually look after Australians.
A big immigration plan hurts Australians. Tell the government no and stop the immigration ponzi scheme.
[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/migration-australia/latest-release
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-06/gdp-q4-2018/10874592
[3] https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/its-a-major-problem-mark-bouris-warns-government-over-massive-surge-of-650000-new-migrants-in-next-two-years/news-story/0d82bb48d3de996c2e602091115b54db
You got that right! The Sustainable Australia Party has been saying this since its founding. Dick Smith had always pointed out how unrestricted immigration just makes things worse for the average Australian.
GDP is a false god to which main stream economists and politicians bow down. There are 4 basic ways to increase GDP. 1.. Debt borrow to bring forward tomorrows consumption to today, then its a bigger debt tomorrow to bring forward more consumption. Ultimately its another ponzi scheme and Australia has the highest level of household debt in the world and probably own less of our assets than anyone else.
2. Participation. Women have been joining the workforce, not by choice but largely by necessity. That’s pretty much run its course so in recent decades they’ve had to resort to 3.
3. Immigration Migrants used to produce 10 times the infrastructure necessary to support them. Now each migrant produces less and its a steep decline. Think about every basic aspect of our lives and they’re in decline BUT
4.Productivity The organisations that take bribes called political donations have reduced manufacturing from 30% of GDP to about 5% replacing these jobs with non productive enterprises like gambling (again we are world leaders with daylight second.
Thanks Malcolm your messages are great
Unfortunately the biggies control the press and they are not listening.
Absolutely right Malcolm. A net zero immigration policy is essential. This will be needed for at least two generations to ensure proper integration and assimilation of our already burgeoning immigrant population. Australians are, already, quickly becoming a minority in their own country and most importantly the Australian middle class is being impoverished by this and many other foolish government policies. Your continued work in this area is well appreciated by those who know the importance of nationhood and national sovereignty.
This Ponzi scheme has been obvious for a very long time. Government policies are pushing us into becoming a “big” Australia. Government is doing this to placate people with vested interests who want bigger profits, who hold the idea that something called “growth” is imperative, and who have the misguided belief that Australia has much empty space that should be used to absorb the population overflow of other countries. These policies are ill-advised. A big population is not sustainable and can lead only to ever-increasing angst. Read my paper, https://www.scribd.com/document/262028236/.
How on earth did over 200,000 a year of immigrants come into Australia during Covid lockdowns whereby Australians couldn’t even get in or out of their own state?
Or couldn’t even get in or out of their own cities?
Our politicians are/have betrayed Australia and Australians – they have sold us down the river and our grandchildren will live in misery
No STOP 🛑 IMMIGRATION… as much as we love, honour and respect our global brothers and sisters.
LET’S GET OUR DUCKS LINED UP.
LET US GET SOME LOVE OF FELLOW MEN & WOMEN ,
AS A HAPPENING THING…
LET US SHOW
RESPECT
LOVE
GRATITUDE
FOR THOSE WHO LIVE HERE NOW.
STOP 🛑 kowtowing to THE NEGATIVE ALIEN AGENDA.
YOU WARLOCKS AND WICHES…
LETS KICK YOU OUT.
TODAY
ENOUGH
TAKE THE MAFIOSO
SHOVE IT!!!
Hey Malcolm,
Your top gun 🔫 crews
May enjoy some
Sonny and Cher 🍒
Over the weekend.
The Essenes ARE EVERYWHERE
THE ESSENES ARE THE BOSS
Old show… I grew up with SONNY & CHER.
I arrived
5 January 1961
A baby BABY BOOMER…
I remember a kinder, more courteous and RESPECTFUL
MELBOURNE
VICTORIA
AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
Let’s WALK THE TALK
GET THE PHARISEES
OUT
👢 ENOUGH
SYSTEMS DONT FUNCTION
YOU PAY DARK IN POLITICS
YOU
LOSE THE LOT.
Not us everyday human beings…
Rwoar
So, anyway, here’s a nice distraction for the weekend.
Hugs 💋
Grrrr my link is not downloading 🧜♀️
Whatever!!!!
You have to stand back and shake your head in disbelief at the circularity of the logic:
we need immigrants to fix the skills shortage.
We need immigrants to fix the skills shortage.
Why is there a skills shortage?
Because there aren’t enough (insert profession here) to meet the needs of the growing population.
Why is the population growing?
Because we’ve just imported a few hundred thousand people.
Why did we do that?
To meet the skills shortage….. (Return to beginning and repeat ad nauseum.)
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Albo went to the same political leaders’ school as Joe Biden and learned, “How to wreck a country in 3 easy steps.”
STO IMMIGRATION NOW,
Australia has so much work to be done to get the Country on track.
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME!!!!
You want something you fight for it and work for it,
These immigrants need to look at their country of Birth and ask themselves what can I do for MY Country.
Senator Roberts thank you for your support of the Australian people and the continued efforts to fight the corruption values of both major parties.