Whew, this thread turned nasty! It's a great example of two things: 1) Turning people against each other with nasty tropes about people 'exploiting' welfare and 'immigrants taking our jobs' is a successful strategy in stopping people from looking at the inequality; 2) (Despite my lazy Guest-nickname), perhaps it's time for Mudcat to stop people being able to post as GUEST, so that people have to stand over their real identities and opinions.
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