Mass illegal immigration is a huge threat to the economic and cultural health of any nation.
That's the usual right-wing blabla.
There has never been a scientific study that went along with that. Besides, culture isn't a fixed, clearly defined thing. It needs to interact with new trends and insights, or it turns into a soulless propaganda machine. And even the CCP learned that in China.
Without immigrants, a lot of farmers run into problems with harvest of some fruits and vegetables. The meat sector also pulls a lot of cheap labour from the same source. Like the UK poultry sector was in deep trouble when Brexit was new, because Polish workers couldn't get there.
It disproportionately affects citizens who are already struggling to make ends meet in the messed up Biden economy.* It results in higher tax pressure to support all of the services being doled out (food, housing, health care, education) and stresses our school system. The ridiculous fearmongering about accidental deportation of legal residents is beyond the pale.
Oh, dear, the same faux social worries. The right really isn't very creative, are they?
First off, the right doesn't give a rat's ass about social services. When it comes to them, they'd rather abolish all of them. And there wouldn't be any strain on the educational system if, for instance, teachers would be paid a decent wage. A US teacher is paid worse than a teacher in Kenya, for instance.
Some level of protectionism would be good if we really want to rebuild our industrial base (in semiconductors, solar, batteries, pharma, etc.). Or would you prefer that we become wholly dependent on unfriendly states like China for critical needs? Did we learn nothing from the Covid situation?
Too little, too late. It's not the govt who places jobs in certain areas. It's the industry. And as long as it 's cheaper to do it elsewhere, they'll do it. Nothing the govt can do about it.
Remember Trump gave Tim Cook some billions to produce computers in the USA. Remember the result? 1000$ for a set of wheels. I wonder how many people work in that Apple plant.
Has the Fed really done the best for us in the last 20-30 years? I am not so sure. Maybe reform is in order.
Been watching the UK, have we? Just like the US propaganda for Brexit made the Brits make a bad choice, the FED will do what capital needs. It's an illusion to think the FED serves Americans. Americans are only canon meat, needed in the numerous wars all over the world. Of course, we need to keep the military industry going, don't we?
Weaponization of the DoJ started in 2015 or 16 when Obama was POTUS. What a joke.
Well, that was creative. Only, way too late. Things like that started in the twenties of previous century. Like McCarthyism. And the clear disdain for human rights in the US. Largest incarcerated part of the population, by far. Etc.
The simple fact is that 90% of Americans were in better standing in 2018-19 than they were in 2015 and certainly 2024. Gaslighting does not alter reality. We are paying 20-50% more for goods and services since Biden took office. He is the worst of the two viable alternatives. By far.
What has Biden to do with prices? Again, it's not your govt who runs things. Prices went up all over the world. And your govt is so busy trying to patch things up because nobody trusts them anymore, that they hardly have time to even think about Americans. Besides, the empathy seems to work both ways. A people who don't trust their govt, end up with a govt that doesn't trust it's people. Hence the spy-tsunami. Something that always ends in fascism.
Let's also not forget the USA's dodgy allies. Israel and Saudi Arabia, to name just a few. These are allowed to do anything (including genocide). And now, Israel turned the USA into liars. Nice friends. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
The pier is gone. Millions down the drain. Now there are US soldiers in Gaza. As if there aren't already way to many in the Middle East.
* I note how in the past the screeching was about evil businesses taking advantage of cheap labor, but now, with people flooding in at 10x previous rates, it's virtuous to allow them in.
From what I've seen, the vast majority of the farmers who use immigrant workers, treat them decently as they return year after year. Of course, the few bad apples always get a lot of attention in the press.
And those who don't treat their workers kindly, will probably do that in another country. One where they can buy the govt. Like what's happening in Papoea New Guinea, as we speak. As long as US companies can go strip-mining there, it doesn't matter that the Indonesian govt is eradicating the local population.
And then one of the right's media concerns is not only laundering crime money, they're also scamming pensioners and were caught red handed collecting unemployment benefits for people who don't even exist.
Don't tell me there is even one second of consideration for Americans in US political minds. And even less in the minds of the 1%...
How many need to get killed before that dawns on Americans. You're not the land of the free. It's more like the land of the blind.
