08-04-2011, 05:46 PM
Acer wrote:
I'm not tongue in cheek at all. Are you saying we just let Asia have all the cheap "dirty" jobs so we can keep the ones that pay well for ourselves? That strategy is failing all around us. We need the unskilled level of the job market as much as we need the top.
No, I'm saying that we don't have the numbers to compete at their level, even if we bring in everyone from Mexico and Central America who wants to come here to pluck chickens or change oil. Keep in mind that we have to have jobs for those people to start with, absence of jobs is the main reason non-native workers have left over the past few years, not immigration enforcement.
And that there's a downside to that which must be factored in.