IT'S LIFE IN THE CAR WASH OR CRIME

A note re; the continuing comments from the pro illegals crowd claiming that "historically" we have welcomed all immigrant groups.

OK, but historically means the last wave which stopped somewhere around 1910 or so. At that time the average education of Americans was 7th grade and only ten percent of our population graduated from high school. A high school diploma was very high, and a college education was rare. We did not need a bunch of MBAs back then, we needed strong backs capable of driving the industrial revolution. The education "gap" in the early 1900s between immigrant and American born was only six or seven grades of school. In fact the Education and Child Labor Laws were not enacted anywhere in this country til 1910, and even that law allowed for a ton of kids to escape the school requirement. Those Education laws were mainly state laws and due to the places that lacked any school at all, there were all kinds of exemptions. The scarcity of schools in rural areas meant that the early education laws only applied to the big cities.

Today the gap between illiterate and the technological education needed for the "Information Age" is huge; at least fourteen years of school are a necessity with sixteen and up preferred. An illiterate twenty year old does not look forward to fourteen years of school to become qualified, so it's either life in the car wash, welfare programs, or crime. We are awash with people qualified to go on the dole and nothing else. And the really bad news is that they ain't going back to Mexico any time soon, mainly because they can't even read the maps.

Here's a Google video with some hard data, that means facts that may really fuck up your thinking.