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Old 02-01-2006, 10:18 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Historically, most of our ancestors did not get here "legally". They just showed up. If I were a contruction laborer, nursery worker, fast food employee, etc. I would probably be pissed because the illegal immigrants have depressed wages for a lot of unskilled labor positions. Of course, anyone who was raised in this country in recent times had full access to a free education that is more than sufficient to allow you to elevate yourself above the unskilled labor market. So, IMO the people with crappy jobs really have no one to blame but theirselves. Personally, I think the guest worker program would be great because we get a better idea of who is coming into the country. The flow of cheap labor will stop when there is no longer a demand for it. Simple economics.
Give those jobs to the homeless roaming downtown Knoxville. I'm sure many of them are tired of sleeping under bridges.
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Give those jobs to the homeless roaming downtown Knoxville. I'm sure many of them are tired of sleeping under bridges.
Many of those people are not going to work no matter what. A lot of them have serious mental problems and no real access to mental health providers. Many others are alcoholics and drug addicts in the last stages of their diseases and won't live very long.
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Many of those people are not going to work no matter what. A lot of them have serious mental problems and no real access to mental health providers. Many others are alcoholics and drug addicts in the last stages of their diseases and won't live very long.


I think they would easily qualify for Tenncare actually.
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I think they would easily qualify for Tenncare actually.
Not anymore. You pretty much have to be on WIC or SSI, and I've even heard of some people on SSI who were disenrolled. They have cut TennCare back to the bare minimum of what is required under the Medicaid program in order for the state to continue getting Federal $$.
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The simple fact is that the US cannot continue to allow people into the country at the current pace for much longer. Overpopulation affects everything. Lindsey Grant does a good job summarizing the effects of overpopulation in his book Too Many People. If you are interested, the full text of the book can be found here.
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