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Newly2b

04/07/05 11:54 AM

#378064 RE: ajtj99 #378058

You know, I never quite looked at it that way before, but it's true. Immigration and the cheap labour it affords allows us to consume more. America is the quintessential immigrant society, ergo we have developed into the world's ultimate consumer society. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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skono4

04/07/05 12:03 PM

#378071 RE: ajtj99 #378058

While immigrants may put pressure on some trades by offering greater supply of labor, by and large we benefit through a higher standard of living as a result of it.
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You and I benefit to a certain degree so long as we don't have to travel through the neighborhoods where they live let alone send OUR kids to those schools. I disagree that the overall effect creates a higher living standard averaged out across the population. Letting in millions of unskilled and uneducated workers simply displaces native workers in the lowest paid jobs. Those communities are disaster areas without decent schools, adequate police, malfunctioning public infrastructure and so on and so forth. We spent trillions to fight poverty and yet we continue importing it en masse creating a never ending TAX OBLIGATION to support this class of workers. Mark my words this will come back to haunt us as this workforce ages and becomes a burden to Social Security and Medicaire. What I see is the faraway suburban or heavily gated urban community dwellers benefiting greatly from access to cheap labor while the least among us suffer declining standards accross a very broad measure of lifestyle conditions.