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<blockquote data-quote="retiredone" data-source="post: 89178" data-attributes="member: 1576">Our country seems to either outsource jobs or import workers. I believe that this adversly impacts the people who are here legally. Adding to the &quot;supply&quot; of workers affects the price people are willing to pay for the services. Our citizens are now having to compete with people who will work in other countries for pennies per hour. And they also have to compete with imported workers who also will work for much less than our folks. And the families of both of these groups overwhelmingly reside in countries where the cost of living is significantly less than in the US. This seems to be a strange way to &quot;provide for the common welfare&quot; of our citizens. &nbsp;We are living in a global marketplace and have to be competitive. But we seem to go out of our way to make circumstances work against our citizens. What does it mean in our consitution when we promise our citizens to &quot;provide for the common welfare&quot;? Or is that promise open to non citizens as well? What are the benefits of citizenship?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="retiredone, post: 89178, member: 1576"] Our country seems to either outsource jobs or import workers. I believe that this adversly impacts the people who are here legally. Adding to the "supply" of workers affects the price people are willing to pay for the services. Our citizens are now having to compete with people who will work in other countries for pennies per hour. And they also have to compete with imported workers who also will work for much less than our folks. And the families of both of these groups overwhelmingly reside in countries where the cost of living is significantly less than in the US. This seems to be a strange way to "provide for the common welfare" of our citizens. We are living in a global marketplace and have to be competitive. But we seem to go out of our way to make circumstances work against our citizens. What does it mean in our consitution when we promise our citizens to "provide for the common welfare"? Or is that promise open to non citizens as well? What are the benefits of citizenship? [/QUOTE]

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