Including immigrants, legal and illegal?
So, if you import 8 million extremely poor people, people with limited skills, limited English-speaking ability, and unlikely to get a high-paying job or a job that pays health insurance, those people are INCLUDED as "Americans" for purposes of the Census Bureau and BLS surveys -
- - - so when they report that the number of poor Americans or Americans without healthcare goes up, then unless that number is 8 million (and it's closer to 1/3 of that), the increase DOES NOT MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE MOVING DOWN OR LOSING HEALTH BENEFITS ON A LARGE SCALE, RATHER IT MEANS PEOPLE ARE MOVING UP, JUST BEING REPLACED WITH NEW POOR PEOPLE.
If "Americans" means citizens, then there aren't more "poor Americans" - there are just more poor Mexicans living in America.
Kick them out, let them stay - do what you want about them, but Libs please STOP using their numbers to make false claims about the broader economy.
2007-07-14
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