Wisdom from Jessie Jackson:

A few years ago Jessie Jackson explained to the nation that the poorest African-American neighborhoods suffered because shop owners in those neighborhoods came from the suburbs and took their profits home with them at night. What those neighborhoods needed most, according to Rev. Jackson, was local ownership of commerce that would keep the money circulating in the community.

Most of us heard him and intuitively realized he was right.

So if Rev. Jackson was right about the impact of money draining out of a few block area of an American city, how much more right must his thoughts be as applied to the entire nation?

There was more than one reason why the housing market overheated and then collapsed. But certainly every construction job that substituted Illegal Alien workers for American construction labor meant at least one less American able to buy a house while the Illegal Alien construction workers had no interest in owning homes in America. At first cheaper construction labor did make houses more affordable. The long-term consequence of that bargain was fewer Americans who could afford a house at any price.

Every time an Illegal Alien takes a job for $8 an hour that an American would be paid $15 an hour to do—that’s $7 an hour less circulating in the community. Every time an Illegal Alien sends home $100 in remittance to anywhere in the world, that is $100 that will never circulate in America ever again. Every job offshored is less money circulating in America. Every imported item on the shelves of stores is less money circulating in America. Our bargains are driving us broke.