it makes NO sense. The STRONGEST our middle class has ever been was during periods of labor unions where there was acutal value beyond the bottom line put on the American Laborer. Yet, MAGICALLY, despite the example of Japan the "free traders" would have us believe that a total hands off approach is the best economic system. well, CLEARLY thats a load of shit.
Not to mention, rationalizing third world slave labor just to regurgitate an ignorant fucking talking point.
and, yes the Mexicans ARE the problem since they have no desire to change the nature of their own third world country when there is an escape pod just north of the rio grand. Just like the CHINESE are to blame for allowing their draconian conditions.
I agree with you about the strongest our middle class has been. But the right has systematically tried to deconstruct all of the policies that gave us a strong middle class.
As for third world labor. I think it safe to say that corporatists love the cheap labor from mexico. I think it's also safe to say that there are certain industries that would collapse without it.
As for the Mexicans, only a problem to the extent that the corporatists want their cheap labor. And, not for nothing, you willing to work as a nanny for a couple of hundred dollars a week? I didn't think so. I think they do jobs Americans are unwilling to do.