Would you support the following policies? If not, why?

There seems to be a lot of conflict and polarization in American politics right now, and I view both sides negatively. I think the source of most of this conflict is technological advancement.[1] Technology has put a great many workers out of work. The so called "decline of the American manufacturing sector" is a farce, it has undergone no decline in output. Steel production, for example, has increased while employment has fallen dramatically[2]. In the coming decades, this will greatly accelerate. Driverless car technology will replace truck drivers, 3D printing technology will replace many manufacturing processes, the supermarket will automate itself, and the development of personal service robots, though still far off, will be bound to hit us eventually. At the same time the service industry will not be able to keep pace, and will automate itself eventually too. Thus will be produced, a large number of unemployed workers. Neither Liberalism[5] nor Libertarianism/Conservatism provides a solution to this problem. Some may say, "well this is why we need a better education system in this country to train more scientists and engineers." Indeed scientists and engineers will be in greater demand, however the idea that a majority of these workers(and their children) can become smarter is false. Today, 42% of those who attend college do not graduate,[3] imagine what would happen if even more attended. To solve this problem, or rather to alleviate the symptoms, I am suggesting policy positions that are combine parts of both the left and the right.

1. I suggest firstly that we recognize the generally accepted principal that intelligence is heritable, despite political objections.[4] We must realize that the more people who are on the bottom end of the bell curve, the worse off the unemployment will be. This will be called eugenics by its opponents.

2. We should adopt a policy of paid volentary sterilization of the poor in order to reduce the population of unemployed people in the future. In addition this can also be argued on an environmental basis. In addition, we should also act to provide birth control to the poor. These efforts should be funded by charities but also by government if necessary. Libertarians/Conservatives will argue that this incentivises immoral and irresponsible behavior, but I respond that our current free society will always encourage this behavior, and that those doing it are genetically predisposed to do it.

3. We should reduce immigration of unskilled laborers, as most of the jobs they take will be gone within a generation, while the children they have will still be here.

4. We should through the school system identify any intelligent children and recommend they attend college, loans from the government, private charities, and for profit corporations are out there for them, but we should not hope to find many.

5. We should not expect the racial composition of the upper classes to balance itself out in the next generation.

6. We should put together a welfare system for those unemployed workers, as leaving them with nothing will lead them to turn toward socialism and communism. As unskilled labor will not be completely replaced for another 2 generations at least, we must discourage idleness and overdependence on the welfare system. Benefits and "wages" of welfare must be kept lower than even the worst menial job, and recipients must perform 1-2 months of community service labor, such as cleaning the streets.

Footnotes:

1. I am talking about economic issues here.

2. http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/605.html

3. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on...

5. Liberal suggestions to ban outsourcing, which are impractical(Obama was considered by many to have the most liberal voting record in the senate, and look how much progress has been made) will only accelerate the trend toward automation.