[Texasforever]

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.

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.

[easonc52]

(It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your butt out all day long.)

I just noticed your tagline... ... and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours (and all others on this thread).

[risk]

There is no such thing as "artificial subsidizing of an inflated labor pool".

If immigration legal and illegal is set by implicit and explicit policy, and if the labor pool is comprised of local and immigrant labor, then yes we are adjusting the combined labor pool artificially.