[Ff--150]

Some businesses will benefit from the endless supply of low-wage labor. But U.S. workers – 3 million of whom have lost jobs in the private sector since Bush took office – will have to compete with millions of immigrants for the jobs that remain.

Sorry, Pat, not "will have to compete," but ARE completing for those jobs. But, it's not just on this mundane level, for the college-educated too are watching their jobs flood out to Red China and India.

The founders of this nation saw problems and went against the grain to fix them--are we too far mortgaged privately to do more about this nation's demise than type on keyboards while at work?

[4CJ]

For high-school dropouts – black, white, Asian, Hispanic – who are citizens, amnesty means their road to the American dream will be as clogged and congested as a California highway at rush hour.

Fixed it.

The founders of this nation saw problems and went against the grain to fix them--are we too far mortgaged privately to do more about this nation's demise than type on keyboards while at work?

Wanna buy a house? ;o)

Just kidding. You are correct, we - as a nation- are in debt, and the dims respond with promises of a bailout. One problem, bailouts cost money [meaning it will be taken from them that have and given to them that have not]. In answer to your question, I think many have changed their view of a benevolent government, and that increased resistance to the federal leviathan is forthcoming.