[sfwarrior]

Nice try but no banana. Most freepers would agree with you that the rate of immigration is far too excessive. But you ignored answerin the main question posed by the original column, how does an American worker making between $25-$40 an hour, at a factory or "knowledge" job, compete with those making 10-20 cents an hour.

Let everyone on this thread hear your answer simply and clearly. Go. Your turn...

[Happy2BMe]

"..how does an American worker making between $25-$40 an hour, at a factory or "knowledge" job, compete with those making 10-20 cents an hour."

The 10-20 cents/hour are off shore jobs that replaced traditional jobs in textiles, circuitry fabrication, clothing, electronics production, small engines, tools, hardware, appliances and myriad of other "blue-collar" manufacturing jobs outsourced overseas just in the past ten years. This outsourcing increased dramatically under the present "conservative" president, George Bush.

The jobs that this segment were doing at $35 - $45 an hour are now being done by Enlish-language challenged Pakistanis and Indians reading off of cue cards making less than $5,000 a year (and living better than any time in their lives, I might add).

These are, of course, Jobs Americans Just Don't Want.

This phenomenon didn't really catch the attention of a majority of Americans who were being affected by the loss of jobs until the "white-collar" jobs such as those related to the Information Technology, telemarketing, and financing jobs started being outsourced overseas.

Bought a Dell lately? Applied for a credit card lately?

This historic leeching off of American jobs to third-world nations not come at a more economically desperate and critical time. The siphoning off of jobs overseas is occurring at the same time as the migrant labor invasion from Mexico.

FORMULA: Outsource JOBS (+) MIGRANT LABOR INVASION (=) EXTINCTION OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.

Over . . .