The sky is not falling, everything is getting better by any objective standard. Did you sleep through the presidential campaign?
"I am looking at tht whole picture not just the economy.. Your standard of living may have increased and others that exploit illegals also, but mainstream America's standard of living is not increasing.. "
Well the economy is what determines our standard of living and lots of people who don't employ illegals are buying bigger houses, exotic entertainment systems, new cars, designer clothes, expensive jewelry.....
"I am concerned for our nation and the sad direction it is heading.."
The sky is not falling, everything is getting better by any objective standard. Did you sleep through the presidential campaign?
No I did not sleep through the campaign. Everything is not getting better by an objective standard.
"I am looking at tht whole picture not just the economy.. Your standard of living may have increased and others that exploit illegals also, but mainstream America's standard of living is not increasing.. "
Well the economy is what determines our standard of living and lots of people who don't employ illegals are buying bigger houses, exotic entertainment systems, new cars, designer clothes, expensive jewelry.....
Our standard of living includes other things than just bigger houses jewelry etc. Literacy rates, Health, Crime, Pollution, Traffic, Environment, all contribute to our standard of living. It's single minded money grabbers like you who think a new car or jewelry makes for a good standard of living while gangs of criminals are multiplying, literacy is going down, traffic is going up, affordability of housing is going down, etc. A high standard of living includes people following the law and paying their share of public burdens. If one person owned all the wealth in a country and the rest worked for subsistence wages, the average economy could show a high standard of living but in reality it would be in the sewer. That's where our country is headed, a third world sewer of uneducated, dependent, corrupt, lawbreaking people. Two chickens in every pot or two cars in every garage do not a high standard of living make. Ask the people of Iraq about their high standard of living under Saddam....those that lived through it...
And many of these people who are buying all these things are in debt up to their eyeballs.