2012 Thoughts on Trading in Birth Certificates

A few years ago, some of the global implications of my 2009 entry "Trading in Birth Certificates - Double Entendre" became clearer in a new way. Since I live in Australia, a country that had a "White Only" immigration policy through the 1960's, I wondered why, now that I live here, things had changed so radically and the government seemed to be in a special rush to bring in Asians and, more recently those from Sub-Sahara Africa. When I thought about it, there had to be some big financial pay-off for officialdom. At first, I thought maybe they were just being literally paid off by the British government to relocate those left stranded in various ways by the crumbling empire. Then, when I realized that all Western governments had gone bankrupt around 1933, and they were likely begging for large loans to stay afloat from the World Bank or International Monetary Fund, initially, for collateral, they simply used the Birth Bonds of their own citizens. Then slowly, as they saw the limitations of that pool of people, they realized that by allowing immigration from Third World nations, the citizens of whom were not yet registered anywhere, they had a fresh source of funding. Thus, First World applicants for immigration were much less welcome, because their bonds had already been used by their native countries. Although the Australian government has a supposedly strong anti-illegal immigration stance, regarding those who are smuggled into the country by boat, it actuality has a large yearly migrant intake of about 200,000 - 300,000 people, currently mainly from China. Again, their policies disciminate against the mature-age migrants, while being much more welcoming to the youth. This dovetails in almost every "First World" country with the puzzling intake of huge numbers of migrants while those countries are struggling with high unemployment as well. Note that I have no proof of the above, but see if you don't have an 'Ah-ha' experience while reading this.