America Just Fired Its Best Workers... And Handed Canada a $14.5 Trillion Gift
While Washington raids kitchens and warehouses, Canada quietly opens the front door and sets the table.
Every once in a while a country does something so backwards you have to read it twice…
to make sure it’s not satire.
This is one of those times.
The United States is spending billions of dollars chasing out the very people who were paying its bills.
Not metaphorically.
Literally.
Here’s the math nobody in a red tie seems interested in talking about:
Between 1994 and 2023, immigrants in the U.S….
• Paid $10.6 trillion more in taxes than they used in services
• Reduced government borrowing costs by $3.9 trillion
• Total net benefit: $14.5 trillion
• In 2023 alone: $4.8 trillion of GDP (about 18% of the entire economy)
That’s not “they contribute a bit.”
That’s “they’re quietly holding the whole roof up.”
And what does Washington do with that golden goose?
They bring a shotgun.
ICE raids.
Mass deportations.
Workplace disruptions.
Even fatal protest crackdowns.
Four thousand federal agents dropped into Minnesota like it was Fallujah.
Businesses shut down.
Supply chains froze.
Workers vanished.
Not because immigrants are wrecking the economy…
…but because the government is.
It’s like torching your own barn to get rid of a mouse.
Here’s the part that kills me
These aren’t “drains.”
They’re prime-age workers.
Engineers.
Nurses.
Small business owners.
People paying taxes for decades.
Many even pay into Social Security and Medicare without ever being eligible to collect.
Think about that for a second.
They’re funding American retirees…
…while knowing they’ll never see a dime back.
If that’s not the definition of a net contributor, I don’t know what is.
They’re also…
• Less likely to be incarcerated
• Generally healthier
• Lower public costs overall
In finance terms?
They’re blue-chip assets.
And the U.S. is liquidating them for political theatre.
Meanwhile… north of the border
Canada isn’t yelling.
Canada isn’t chest-thumping.
Canada is just quietly saying…
“Sure, come on in.”
Our Express Entry system is already seeing rising applications from skilled workers who’ve had enough of the circus.
Same story across the European Union.
Stability sells.
Chaos repels.
It’s not complicated.
Talent goes where it feels safe.
Money follows talent.
Countries that look sane win.
Countries that look like reality TV lose.
Even American CEOs are panicking
Over 60 Minnesota company leaders… names like 3M, Target, Best Buy, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group… basically waved a white flag and said…
“Please stop. You’re wrecking our workforce.”
When corporate America starts begging the government to calm down…
…you know somebody’s driving the bus into a ditch.
The bigger picture (the part nobody says out loud)
When you deport a worker, you don’t just lose their paycheck.
You lose…
• their taxes
• their spending
• their entrepreneurship
• their kids
• their future businesses
It’s compounding damage.
And where does that economic energy go?
It doesn’t evaporate.
It relocates.
North.
Across the Atlantic.
Anywhere that looks rational.
Canada doesn’t even have to recruit.
America is basically gift-wrapping talent and putting a maple leaf on it for us.
“Here. You take them.”
Don’t mind if we do.
This is self-sabotage dressed up as strength
Strong countries don’t chase away taxpayers.
Strong countries attract them.
This isn’t security policy.
It’s economic arson.
And the irony?
The very people being pushed out were the ones quietly subsidizing everyone else.
America is solving a problem that didn’t exist…
…by creating a hole they won’t climb out of for decades.
Meanwhile Canada and Europe just sit there like the calm neighbour watching the loud guy next door punch his own fence.
Sometimes you don’t have to win.
You just have to not be stupid.
The Recap…
America just spent billions kicking out the people who were paying its bills.
$14.5 trillion in net value… gone.
Canada and Europe? Quietly rolling out the welcome mat.
This isn’t politics.
It’s math.
Full story at GeezerWise.
The Gut Punch…
Strong countries attract taxpayers.
Weak ones deport them.
Source credit:
Data compiled from U.S. immigration fiscal impact studies and public reporting on recent ICE enforcement operations.
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I think coupled with a National General Strike, which BTW the billionaires are absolutely terrified about it would put an end to this administration. We have history to learn from. Fun fact, Hitler was equally terrified of this same thing.
It was the same with many of the EU migrants to the UK. Young, no dependants, paying taxes but basically not using health services substantially staffed by themselves. Paying for retirement benefits that they wouldn’t stay long enough to qualify for, never mind collect. Stay a few years and improve their English enough to get a better job in their own country. Return. Post Brexit and the end of free movement they don’t come. Reduction in immigration from EU about 250,000 a year.
But we do need immigrants who now come from much further away. With dependants who do use health services. And stay. About 650,000.
We have an increasingly aged population and not enough births to stop the ratio worsening. So who pays to look after us in old age? Who pays the taxes to support that? The latest suggestion from the Brexit Party/Reform (Farage party rebranded)? To increase taxes on those who don’t have children! Not exactly a short term solution.