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Originally Posted by Agent_Grey
2. Illegal immigration is not why you have no job. The fact that we now live in a global economy that will outsource even the head-set-reception part of making a drivethrough order to India because it is cheaper, is 99% of why we no longer have a manufacturing base in this country, not because illegal immigrants are sneaking in and taking those jobs. Even if we round up every last illegal immigrant and deport them all, then seal the boarder with a thousand-foot wall, this would not change.
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I appreciate your opinions on illegals, and I agree with them. However, my assessment of the economic crisis is a lot different than yours, and I'd like to assert that job outsourcing is another such red-herring. The real criminals are the bankers setting bullshit loans, the stratification of the agricultural industry, the consolidation of wealth amassed by the top 1% of the world in the last decade, the continually reduced quality and value of education in the US, plus the taxes. This is why our economy is shit. Outsourcing diverts attention, though it is occurring, you have to understand that word implied a context designed to imprison you. What I mean is simple. The companies "outsourcing" would like you to think that this is some inevitable set of circumstances they can't afford else they'll fail to make a profit. This is not true. Whats happening is that import tax laws are being made, used, and circumvented very strategically to make it so that they can get their products cheaply. If we enforced an increased import tax from China, Taiwan, and Mexico etc, our economy would boom. Instead these people are setting up courts and legal processes preventing most Americans from getting access to those chinese manufacturers without paying a huge 27% import tax.
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Originally Posted by Agent_Grey
3. You have no appreciation of geologic/anthropological time. What's the ultimate threat of illegal immigration when you really think about it? That someday, a thousand or more years from now we'll all be speaking spanish? Is that it? That kind of change is so slow, and so gradual, the idea that it would somehow effect you personally is nothing more than a sad joke.
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I think that English, being a superior language, will over course continue to prevail more so even than now as the worlds most spoken language. More on this if you'd like... when you get back from work.