Cracking Down

These are great ideas as long as you accept the fact that the entire U.S. agricultural industry would shut down, hotels, motels and restaurants would be without most of their hardest workers and hundreds of thousands of workshops, factories and assembly plants would have to hire and train millions of new employees and would see their labor costs jump by at least 30%, which you and I would pay at the checkout counter.

Why do you think even rightwing knuckleheads like Bush have done nothing to change the status quo? Big business won't allow it!

Until this country decides to have intelligent and in-depth conversations about pressing issues like this (and our war economy, government corruption, our horrible public education and health care systems), expect to see nothing of significance get done, little resolved and the screaming from both the Right and the Left to get louder.

How have we arrived at our current state of being an Idiocracy and Republic of Morons?

Enforce immigration laws and the labor market will clear.

And what is so wrong with American workers getting paid more?

Those better-paid Americans then spend that money on more stuff made and serviced by more Americans. Many of them even might form or join labor unions, such as the Teamsters.

Seems like an excellent wealth distribution system from the rich Americans to the poorer Americans, leaving the poor foreigners out of the loop sending American money to foreign nations instead of stimulating the American domestic economy. Then those foreign nations will have to take care of their own people instead of exporting their poverty to USA.

This all is a bit highbrow a discussion for something initiated by Kevin O'Connor.