[garbanzo]

The problem with the middle class (other than confiscatory taxation) is that we come to expect something for nothing. We expect to enter the workforce with a smile and be rewarded with high-paying jobs for doing nothing. This thread is a perfect example - we blame immigrants because native-born people don't want to work hard or save their money or live beneath their means.

[FITZ]

I think it's a myth that immigrants work much harder than Americans. Not from what I've seen they don't. They usually have 3 grandmothers die in one year to get extra time off without advance notice, they really aren't more dependable ----they seem quite a bit less dependable than US born and raised anglos, hispanics, and blacks.