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Originally Posted by Edward64
I'm sharing this with you because I do believe these backlogs can be done in < 12 months if there is a will, support from higher ups, and of course financial backing. Bring in a hands-on consulting firm (not McKinsey and such which does high level analysis), spend a month to do the analysis on where the hold up is, another month to figure out how to remove many of those blockers (or come up with temporary measures) with higher up support, and then do what needs to be done.
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I will stand corrected if you can give me an example of one single major government agency or program that has seen this scale of change occur in a 12-month period within the last 50 years. Government is not a business.
The basic issue here IMO is that government is that politics is the art of the possible. It doesn't matter what would be good in a vacuum if it's not something that could be passed and enacted within the relevant timeframe. To me it's just self-evident looking at the political reality around what has happened with the infrastructure bills and Build Back Better and then try to imagine some idealized version of immigration form getting passed and put in on a warp-speed timeframe.
I think an increase in immigration could change the situation some, again over a longer timeframe, but to get the right mix of people that way government would have to predict ahead of time what industries are going to need people and in what amounts, and be competent and flexible enough to adjust in that way. That's a recipe for disaster, it's not the kind of thing governments are good at. You can definitely put Biden's priorities in what kind of bills to try to put forward and not focusing on immigration in that 5-10% impact I mentioned before, but cycling back to the original point here I think it would be quite a ridiculous thing to base a vote for someone else on. After all there's no other candidate out there pushing for it, so it's something everyone else would be equally wrong on. There just wasn't anyone on the national stage calling for this, and there's a reason for that, so if Biden was wrong here so was pretty much everyone else.
In terms of the PR campaign, I understand what you are saying and I think it is a fair point. I just don't think there's anything at all that can be done to reach certain segments of the population. There are elements where there are no 'right levers' to find and push. You can't control everyone. I also think to the extent that there's a fear of going back to work or whatever at this point, it's a fear totally divorced from reality. I think it we could snap our fingers right now and make everyone vaccinated it would not make much difference. I also think there are going to be holdouts to pretty much
anything. Advertising doesn't make
everyone buy something no matter how good or cheap the product is.