Musk says right kind of immigrants needed

Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman President Trump has named along with another successful American, Vivek Ramaswamey, to put a lid on American government waste probably shocked the millions of illegal aliens now in the country when he said last week the U.S. has a shortage of certain immigrants.

Musk said the U.S. is in dire need of a specific type of immigrants – highly skilled ones.

Columnist Mike Vance said that Musk lamented a “permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent” in the U.S., calling it a key issue for Silicon Valley. Businessman Mario Nawfal highlighted a need for over 160,000 semiconductor engineers by 2032, quoting McKinsey & Company.

This almost sounds like a criticism of America’s higher education, like it isn’t graduating enough science-based citizens, although Musk didn’t say that.

College graduates with a degree in gender studies aren’t in high demand.

Speaking of Musk reminds me of another startling (to some) comment he made recently.

He spoke in favor of the conservative Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, which is making waves prior to Germany’s February elections.

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform, X.

Europe’s largest economy is expected to vote on Feb. 23 after a center-left coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapsed.

Musk, who is set to join U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as an adviser, has already expressed support for other conservative, anti-immigration parties across Europe.

America’s national media refers to AfD as a “far right” organization, of course.

But Germany’s economy is suffering after years of following a liberal system, which was lauded by former U.S. President Barack Obama, who openly stated he wished America could be more like Germany.

Obama apparently got his wish during the four-year tenure of Joe Biden in America where Bidenomics produced similar results as those in Germany.

The AfD’s first big success came in challenging Angela Merkel’s decision to let in around 1.3 million undocumented migrants and refugees, mainly from the Middle East, from 2015.

That’s about a tenth of the illegal aliens the Biden regime invited into the U.S.

AfD has a populist concept to it, similar to that of the new Republican Party in America as formulated by newly- elected President Trump.

Just so we know what we are discussing, I borrow the definition of a populist from the Oxford Languages dictionary: Noun – a person...who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

The party has enjoyed recent success in state elections. A key point of AfD as I understand it is that government close to home best serves citizens.

It’s called subsidiarity. Here’s its official meaning: Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as “the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level.”