It's a point of view that justifies the artificial subsidizing of an inflated labor pool. Neither of you have offered any alternatives. You're not looking at the real suffering going on in those households with seriously expressed intent to improve the conditions that led to their problems.
I realize you have justifications for your point of view, but there are people with families who aren't doing well right now beacuse nobody else is doing anything about it, either. It appears heartless to me. It appears heartless to them, too.
And what are we teaching the next generation about raising families? How financially secure will they be? Maybe they'll choose to have 1.5 fewer children, too. That's beginning to impact our survival as a country, and if you ask young people why they don't plan to have medium sized families they'll tell you it's because they may not be able to support them.
The "willy nilly" stuff that's going on today is intentional labor pool inflation. If we wanted to stop illegal immigration we could do it tomorrow. There's neither will nor interest on the part of our leadership to do so.
And the American people continue to suffer because of it.
I understand the pain. My dad would be comfortably retired now, if he hadn't had an aversion to learning computer stuff his company required.
He retired early (after losing my mother), and now is in a world of hurt (which affects all of his friends and relatives who care about him).
He won't be working the fields anytime soon, but he has a streak of pride in him, that won't allow for charity either.
Oh BS. There is no such thing as "artificial subsidizing of an inflated labor pool". There is only a labor pool. We are about 10 years away from a severe labor shortage in this country when the boomers leave the workforce. That means a fiscal disaster both in tax revenue and trade. We have not reached population replacement for the country in 2 generations especially whites. In other words, we are not making babies.