Reply #18: Would you be willing to pay an increase in prices

[Horse with no Name]

To increase the standard of living for the working class in this country?
As far as I am concerned, this is the direct problem that has fueled outsourcing to different countries. People aren't willing to pay more for manufactured goods made by Union labor in the US, so they outsource it to other countries to protect the bottom line. And as long as American's can purchase their Chia Pets and Dell Computers at cut rates, it will continue.
The immigration situation, however, is different in the fact that we are speaking of direct labor, generally in the service or agriculture industries--not anything that can be sent to India and dealt with via computers.
It is actually a problem that has to find a solution. If we do it correctly, then we will end up paying more for services. In the perfect world, citizens would pay more and CEO's would take less and meet somewhere in the middle to cut the losses.
Then everyone wins and the standard of living increases for the working class.
However, since this isn't the perfect world, the undocumented workers from Mexico will play the villain and Republicans will build more prisons that are owned by Republican croneys.
The standard of living decreases, but everyone is happy because the brown people are in jail or sent back to Mexico.