The great success story of the United States is that it raised the working class into the middle class, the real path to higher standards of living for the population as a whole. But there are those in the business community who seem to think the American achievement has been overdone. In their view, we need more poverty, not less. Open borders and a new “guest workers” program to legalize millions of illegal aliens is what groups like the Chamber of Commerce desire, in effect creating a proletariat.