the country may have been set up that way, but that is not how it is playing out. Now the country is just filling up with losers who never morph into winners.
With all the many government handout programs --- housing subsidies, TANF, WIC, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, SSDI, free college, etc we're attracting the welfare class from Mexico --- the true dregs -- maybe in higher numbers now than we're attracting the good working types.
Hope we can disagree without being disagreeable.