[A. Pole]

The skill level of the American labor force is being dumbed down by foreign outsourcing and trade deficits. In addition, we allow less educated illegal aliens to enter the country and compete for the low-level jobs that are all an economy hemmed in by overseas rivals can create. And when jobs skills are dumbed down, pay and living standards are also brought down. We are in fact importing poverty.

[Shermy]

"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.