Quote Originally Posted by Iron_Pig View Post
Because they are kissing that illegal immigrant ass for votes and spending my kids future away.
Nevertheless, it is true that Ronald Reagan and the rest of the Republicans granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens back in the 1980's, and the gov't was supposed to stop the inflow after that, but it didn't. Reagan Republicans let them continue to sneak across and stay up until 1992, and the Clinton Democrats did the same thing. In 2000, the Bush Republicans kept letting them come across, and made a few token efforts to send a few back, and now the gov't is broke, and can't afford to pay for holding centers and border guards. So things won't change much.
Point is, both the Republicans AND the Democrats suck on this issue.

And as far as spending your kid's future away, that's primarily the unhappy effect of computers and international communications.
Almost everyone in the US is going to have to compete with lower-priced foreigners for US labor. If I want to sell packages of XYZ goo in my shop, if it's cheaper to have it made in China or Andorra or Malaysia, that's what I'm gonna do because MY competitor across the street is gonna do the same thing, and customers aren't gonna buy XYZ goo from me for $8 if they can walk across the street and buy it for $4.
Semiconductor manufacturers and software people are gonna do the same thing. Nobody in the USA is going to pay $2000 for an American-made 36" LCD if they can get a Sony for $899.
So jobs are going overseas, buds. And jobs will keep going over there until they (and their companies) make as much per hour as Americans do. That might mean that their wages will go up, or that ours will go down, or more probably a combination of both.

So prepare for a US decline in living standards. As long as there are lots of computers and international communications, that's the way it's gonna be. Not the responsibility of either political party, just the way a free an open economic system works.