OK! Silicon Valley industries provide employment but only to the very highly skilled, while service industry jobs don’t pay as much as manufacturing jobs and they (lowly paid service jobs) are in the majority.

Anyway, the sun never sets as it is always shining somewhere on planet Earth at any one time, and like sunshine, manufacturing activities have simply moved somewhere else, while those in the supposedly advanced countries have presumably “moved up the value chain” to “higher” paying information and services jobs – or so do the liars, charlatans and spin doctors proclaim.

The State of California is a living testament to that.

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126843815871861303.html#articleTabs_panel_article%3D3

The 2011 budget for the US is around $3,000,000,000,000 (that’s 3 trillion dollars), and roughly 53% of that amount will be spent by the Pentagon alone. How much of that budget is allocated for “welfare”? Less than 2%. Cutting “welfare” would not solve any problems.

Immigrants are not the cause of all of the country’s woes either. They pay taxes and buy products and services like everyone else. Most of California, and almost the whole US population, are immigrants or immigrant progeny. Illegal immigration has been occurring here for over 500 years, it’s not going to stop, that’s for sure.