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Originally Posted by helpmespock
as far as immigration fixing our labor problem....I once asked the owner of the construction company that built my current home why he used so many mexicans laborers....his answer...
"Young Americans don't want to work this hard for the kind of money this job pays...they'd rather collect welfare and sit at their mommy's house playing x box all day....These mexicans bust their ass for the money..."
Perhaps that is the heart of the situation.
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Perhaps something needs to be done to fix welfare so it doesn't reward people for sitting around. But good luck with that since it won't be too long before there are more people getting benefits than there are actual taxpayers.
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Originally Posted by burnt_thru
it's true that government allowed the current situation to occur, but so did businesses. infact businesses paid politicians to decrease regulation and precipitate this quagmire.
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Actually I think what happened (at least from what I can tell in the case of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac) is that a pair of Gov't Sponsored Entities paid off politicians to not enforce regulations and/or to cover up their failures. So you had gov't paying off the gov't. Yeah... I want those guys running the whole show. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1220...googlenews_wsj
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Last edited by wil; January 22nd, 2009 at 05:45 AM.
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