[FITZ]

I've lived in Mexico and I don't like the way they divide their classes and keep the wages so low for the majority of people ---I don't think it's a good direction for the US to go but it seems that's what we're doing. Only the college educated ---and probably only some of them --because many have little employable skills ---will make it to the elite upper class, the rest will barely scrape by. For a while the welfare programs will make things appear to be better but only while there's still a middle class left to support them. When the middle class is gone ---we're like Mexico.

[garbanzo]

The problem with the middle class (other than confiscatory taxation) is that we come to expect something for nothing. We expect to enter the workforce with a smile and be rewarded with high-paying jobs for doing nothing. This thread is a perfect example - we blame immigrants because native-born people don't want to work hard or save their money or live beneath their means.