On Wed, 03 May 2006 07:23:45 -0400, thunder wrote:

On Tue, 02 May 2006 15:23:22 -0700, wrote:


My point is that for those at the top things are great and getting better,
but for those at the bottom things are not so great and prospects aren't
very bright, either. The number of folks in the "middle" is not increasing
as fast as the numbers on the extreme ends.

I've been following this thread with some amusement. Has anyone here
thought about what would happen to this country without immigration, both
legal and illegal? This economy would collapse. As with most developed
countries, we depend on immigration for a growing economy. It's all about
birthrates. The natives aren't breeding fast enough to sustain our
population, and, as our population ages, without immigration, this Ponzi
scheme will collapse. We can talk all we want about curbing illegal
immigration, but it ain't going to happen. We'll just make them legal.

To combine legal and illegal immigration into the same argument is patently
ridiculous, not worthy of further discussion.
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'Til next time,

John H

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