obama or McCain

mapesy
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:09:03 +0000

Uh…can you say “undocumented guest worker” ?



That argument doesn’t hold water.

Take poverty, for example. After President Johnson’s “War on Poverty” in the '60s, the US poverty rate declined markedly before leveling out in the early 70s. It remained steady until the Reagan years, when it showed a pronounced increase. Then, during the Clinton presidency, the poverty rate once again declined, before rising again with the Bush presidency.

After 1947, median income in the US rose steadily until 1980 when “trickle-down” economics policies were implemented. Since then, there has been almost no growth in median income, with the exception of the Clinton years.

Do you believe “undocumented guest workers” were a problem in the early Reagan years when poverty rates began rising and median income leveled off? There were only an estimated 5 million UGWs in the US at that time. I don’t believe that’s a statistically-large-enough population to alter the factors that might influence poverty and median income levels.