On 8 Apr 2005 13:02:10 -0700, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>bitter anko Takada wrote:
>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BE7AA9C5.FD60%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> > in article 1112830250.703345.68870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
>TXZZ at
>> > superoutland@aol.com wrote on 4/7/05 8:30 AM:
>> >
>> > > The money these robots are consuming should be going to paying
>> > > employees and lowering prices
>> >
>> > The problem is that paying employees to do the same thing costs
>more, so
>> > prices would escalate, not decrease. Also, Japan and much of the
>developed
>> > world is having a problem finding qualified workers. That is why
>most
>> > developed countries are loosening their immigration laws.
>> >
>> > One of the reasons that America has been so successful is that they
>have a
>> > long history of adsorbing immigrants into the marketplace,
>immigrants that
>> > become new citizens.
>>
>> In other words, that could be said as America has been exploiting
>from
>> immigrants as cheap labors, by fooling them as if they could get the
>> fictitious, so-called "American dream" or something.
>
>I'd say it's much easier to be a legal immigrant to the US than, say,
>Japan.

It is easier to *become* a legal immigrant to the US than to Japan.
Whether is is easier to *be* a legal immigrant to the US than Japan is
more of a case-by-case situation.




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