Bennett Hypothesis: Financial Aid Increases Tuition

[alexf.1990]

You mean how Videogamesrock thinks that his happy security guard is representative of the security industry or American workers as a whole? The private security industry averages over a 100% turnover rate. 

I don't speak for Videogamesrock. I have no idea why his post would justify the ignorance or dishonesty of your post.

Did you read the article you linked to? Hundreds of thousands of black people work in the industries that mostly employ illegal immigrants. There are almost 40 million black people in the U.S. The article goes on to discuss discrimination against black people and how employers are twice as likely to prefer equally-qualified white applicants. Preference for equally-qualified white people hurts skilled and college-educated black people. Are only the parts of the article you agree with valid? Also, if illegal immigrants are making more than black people, then how are they depressing wages for black people? The article not only fails to show possible causation, it doesn't even show correlation. 

Experts like Peter Kirsanow, Carol Swain, and George Borjas have written extensively on the negative wage pressures of immigration on unskilled workers. Black Americans, men in particular, are disproportionately represented in this category. I'm not sure how much clearer you can get. The fact that you aren't in the unskilled labor poor doesn't change the situation at all.

The irony in all of this is that the U.S. is largely responsible for what is going on in Central America. The U.S. has propped up dictators and paramilitary groups in that part of the world, but this country doesn't want to take any responsibility for it. 

America's poor should be forced to pay the cost of the government's failed foreign policy? Is that really your position?

How come you didn't say anything when Dfrecore said that my post was racist? She was the first person in this thread to call someone racist. She was the one who started the personal attacks and now wants to play the victim. Please. It would be nice if this section weren't filled with hypocrites.

You attempted to conflate my ideas with racism as well, and you've been intentionally dishonest in your arguments. When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, I suppose.