>>>>You're wrong. The US economy relies on cheap labor, and the american dream. Else it can't compete.
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>>>http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oecon/
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>>>You might find this enlightening.
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>>http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oecon/chap2.htm
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>>Have you read this at all? It basically confirms of what I've been saying all along. What parts of this document contradicts with what I've been saying here ??
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>All I had to do was skim the document:

Great... skim through documents without getting the message of the document. Just great. Did you read the alinea before: ?

The second ingredient is labor, which converts natural resources into goods. The number of available workers and, more importantly, their productivity help determine the health of an economy. Throughout its history, the United States has experienced steady growth in the labor force, and that, in turn, has helped fuel almost constant economic expansion. Until shortly after World War I, most workers were immigrants from Europe, their immediate descendants, or African-Americans whose ancestors were brought to the Americas as slaves. In the early years of the 20th century, large numbers of Asians immigrated to the United States, while many Latin American immigrants came in later years.
Although the United States has experienced some periods of high unemployment and other times when labor was in short supply, immigrants tended to come when jobs were plentiful. Often willing to work for somewhat lower wages than acculturated workers, they generally prospered, earning far more than they would have in their native lands. The nation prospered as well, so that the economy grew fast enough to absorb even more newcomers.

Which indeed is followed by your excerpt.

>The quality of available labor -- how hard people are willing to work and how skilled they are -- is at least as important to a country's economic success as the number of workers...A strong emphasis on education, including technical and vocational training, also contributed to America's economic success, as did a willingness to experiment and to change.
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>Labor-force quality continues to be an important issue. Today, Americans consider "human capital" a key to success in numerous modern, high-technology industries.

So what are you reading into this?? To me it says that americas success is depended on people who are willing to work hard and learn. To me the immigrants do fit this decription pretty well. Oh sure we now get into the dicussion of free education, but again, the US does this because its economy depends upon it.