[coladirienzi]

So, you WANT to live in a third-world country with third-world wages?

You WANT to live behind the walls of a gated community with 24/7 armed guards as my relatives in Brazil, or as my parents did for a few years in Manila?

You WANT to worry about you or your family being kidnapped for ransom as the rich are south of the Rio Grande?

Take every middle-class suburb in your area, and imagine it as the ghetto. Entire metro areas as Compton. You want to live in that kind of a country?

Screw that, YOU get a clue.

[Clemenza]

There is something called a bell curve. Those with intelligence and initiative (from the center to the right side of the bell curve), but who do not go to college, can find work as store managers, mechanical repairmen, truck drivers, etc.

We are far from becoming Brazil, where a state-regulated economy and a culture that values leisure over work and saving has caused the problems you see today.