American Excess

[lookout123]

anyone who believes that should come spend just a little time in the schools, hospitals, and jails here. if they walk away with the same opinion they are either deluded or a liar.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by lookout123

anyone who believes that should come spend just a little time in the schools, hospitals, and jails here. if they walk away with the same opinion they are either deluded or a liar.

Two questions:

How much do illegal aliens help our economy? I am not talking about through taxes, but if all the illegals were deported, how much would our economy be realistically affected in all areas?

When NAFTA passed and the corn farms moved from Mexico to the United States because it is cheaper to make corn here, how much money has the United States taken from Mexico?

[lookout123]

How much do illegal aliens help our economy? I am not talking about through taxes, but if all the illegals were deported, how much would our economy be realistically affected in all areas?

well that depends. if we just shipped them back to their countries of origin and called it a done deal then that would cause problems. i want someone to pick my oranges dammit.

but if we ship out the illegals and fix the LEGAL immigration system to make it simpler, cheaper, and faster and increase the number allowed LEGALLY then it wouldn't cause long term problems. would there be some wage inflation? yep. would that work itself out? yep. most of the problems would be caused by greedy employers fighting the law like they are doing with our new employer sanctions law in arizona.

As far as corn farms moving to the US - not sure what you are talking about - I grew up in corn country, corn has always been grown there.