[Durus]

If we become a third world nation than what are we going to call the rest of the world that will plummet just as far as we do?

[End Times Sentinel]

Not to mention us reaching out and granting citizenship to every third worlder we can get out hands on.

[cunning_fish]

Soviet Union is a nice example to follow if you want to see how a superpower and a #2 global economy turns into a 3rd world country which has a GDP of a Butler county.
US seeks to follow it carefully.

[Venturer]

We have spent so much time effort, money and our industry, trying to send jobs to the third world that we are becoming third world ourselves.

Without trying to sound selfish we have to start looking out for ourselves.

We have to build America back up,before we start giving our industry away again.If we put ourselves into poverty how are we to help the poverty in other countries.

We start a plant in South Carolina to give jobs to Americans in South Carolina and immediately the Unions and the Government through the NLRB attack giving jobs top South Carolinians because they do not belong to Unions.

South Carolinians do not care about getting Union bosses rich,they want jobs. Good paying jobs. Perhaps not paid as well as Unions, but a living wage they can live off.

Americans wnat high wages, but high wages are killing jobs.There has to be a middle ground or we will have no wages.

[heiss]

Amnesty, I mean legalization of illegals is the biggest threat. This is why Newt and Perry must be stopped. They were willing to openly push for this approach even in the front of GOP audience. God knows what they would sign in Washington where they are surrounded by open-border folks all day long.

[kabar]

No mention of immigration, legal and illegal, and how it is making this a third world country. You can't keep importing third world poverty for over 45 years and not expect it to change the country.

Milton Friedman said that, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both. 57% of immigrant headed households with children use at least one major welfare program. We are importing poverty and hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts every year through our kinship system of immigration.

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.

Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 310 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 130 million to 440 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.977 percent (2010 estimate), principally due to immigration.

[1raider1]

I will probably have more effect on the proper use of the term “third world” if I talk to a wall, but here goes... Third world doesn’t mean poor. The term was coined to name those countries that, during the cold war. identified with neither the “free” world nor the communist. They were non-alligned or in a third world.

[ScottinVA]

I think at this point, rebuilding — not fixing — is in order.

[The Great RJ]

I fear that if Obama is re-elected our government will deteriorate further from the corrupt banana republic it has become to a Hugo Chavez style dictatorship.

[ex-snook]

Ask not what we can do for Americans, ask what we can do to help transnational companies hire foreigners.