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To: A. Pole

"And when jobs skills are dumbed down, pay and living standards are also brought down. We are in fact importing poverty."

We are importing poverty, but job skills aren't being "dumbed down."

Isn't it simpler? Bigger labor pool, lower wages. Supply and demand.


14 posted on 05/25/2006 8:25:27 PM PDT by Shermy (Ronald Reagan was man enough to call an Amnesty an Amnesty.)
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To: Shermy
We are importing poverty, but job skills aren't being "dumbed down."

Isn't it simpler? Bigger labor pool, lower wages. Supply and demand.

Yes, but after a while you will get what you pay for. You cannot have highly skilled jobs with law wages for long time.

17 posted on 05/25/2006 8:28:09 PM PDT by A. Pole (It is better to have $5M and live in Weston Massachusetts than to have $20M and to live in Bogota.)
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To: Shermy

""And when jobs skills are dumbed down, pay and living standards are also brought down. We are in fact importing poverty"


Exactly, and the mexs are causing it illegally!!


45 posted on 05/26/2006 12:57:15 AM PDT by Blazing Saddles
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