This is precisely why the present efforts in Washington are not going to help and will only make matters worse.
It's bad enough that many industries are in-sourcing, out-sourcing and off-shoring to the degree that American citizens suffer un- or under- employment.
That's the neurotically competitive dog-eat-dog corp vs. corp nature of our socioeconomic system, similar to what got us into this recent financial mess in the first place when, as always, it eventually backfires, and mid to lower level worker individual human beings take the sacrificial lamb fall to keep those same corporations alive and CEOs rolling in dough despite the predictable repercussions of their behavior.
But now we have a "stimulus" plan that will support in-sourcing, not only encouraging corporations to continue to legally import temporary cheap workers from India, The Philippines, Chile, etc., but will apparently encourage "turning a blind eye" to illegal workers.
And yes, we all know about the liberal Democrats' history of encouraging illegals to make them citizens and loyal Democrats ... but let's not forget that the Republicans are still the party of the corporate board, and "whatever's good for corporations", like cheap illegal labor, "is good for America".
The rapidly cycling downward spiral will continue unabated if the real consumers in America -- the middle class American citizen born and raised here -- continues to take it on the chin.
The American consumers are the real masses that can spend to halt the downward spiral and begin an upward recovery trend.
That will require living-wage jobs for our country's citizens, a transferable concept for and in every country presently suffering from this debacle.
But if we fail to create living-wage jobs for our citizens, if we can't end the in-sourcing, out-sourcing and off-shoring as fast as possible, the downward spiral will continue ... until America is no more than a glorified colony of Saudi Arabia.
