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roachboy: I agree that there are pockets of poverty in the states such as our inner cities and Appalachia (where I'm from) but nothing that compares to that I have seen in Mexico. I was impressed with the competance of the technical workers in Mexico and believe that they are catching up fast, heck, my Dodge Ram truck was built there.
But as corrupt as our system is I believe that theirs is much worse and holding them back plus they have a huge growing population of underclass to handle. The construction sites I was on there seemed to be way over-manned and they had 2 or 3 times the number of workers to do the same tasks that we use in the north of course their wages were much lower. I suspect that the government was putting pressure on the companies to hire more but there are so many of them needing work.
In the states we are losing our blue collar jobs and even some technical jobs due to companies finding it more profitable to have this work done in other lower paying countries. I don't know what we should do about this if anything and the Mexicans and others from poorer countries coming here seem to be finding wages that they are satisfied with.
The U.S. has been the land of opportunity for those wishing to work hard and better themselves and I hate to see this change but how much of the overflow from the south can we handle? Surely opening our borders to all and granting everyone amnesty cannot be good for us in the long run.
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