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Why not? In the last two centuries, a lot of people uprooted themselves for an uncertain future in this country. A lot of people still do, legally and illegally.

True enough; if you are willing to live in the fields or in your car; if you are willing to live with 10 other people; if you are capable of saving up deposits, finding an apartment that accepts your credit (if you have any) and hoping that the area you chose has a good job market, which, if you are poor, is hard to find out ahead of time. Uncertain is puting it mildly.

"Demand" and "value" can be two different beasts. "Demand" may exist when there is high turnover in a company. If my burger flippers quit every 3 months, I will have a lot of "demand" for new employees. However, I will not pay these employees more than what I think they're worth.

I'm not talking about flipping burgers. I am essentially an executive assistant. I make around 15/hr BEFORE anything gets taken out. I can work any office machine and learn programs quickly. I cannot find a job that will pay me more than what I am currently earning; most offer me far, far less. These are positions I see open long-term, over and over again. They refuse to raise their wages, yet cannot understand why people hate the job. Yet it will be filled, for six or eight months, over and over again. This is happening in jobs all over SoCal. This is not even taking into account the fact that I refuse to do any advertising work anymore. I have a degree. I was a Marketing Coordinator. And I refuse to do crap work for overpaid idiot executives (and they were) when they consistantly claimed they couldn't raise our wages, yet would waste money on the most outrageous 'projects' for the co. Which often involved half the execs flying to damn shows, staying at the nicest hotels, and us covering their asses time and again.

The government sticks its nose in because people in government profit, professionally, from being busybodies, and the People let them do it.

That sounds like a nice line, however, except for the higher echelons (those actually running the boards and such), I don't see a whole lot of government employees 'profiting' from poor people.