Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry
Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry
Not to worry, migrant labour will be replaced by prison labour. In fact, the prison work force will expand substantially.
But thanks to Reaganomics, prison turned to profits
'Cause free labor's the cornerstone of US economics
'Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison
You think I am bullshittin', then read the 13th Amendment
Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits
That's why they givin' drug offenders time in double digits
Killer Mike - Reagan
I listen to this song on a loop every time I stand in line to vote. Both major elections and midterms.
And hey, bonus - prison labor is basically free !
This is not the right argument to be making. We shouldn’t be normalizing the exploitation of a underclass of people for the enrichment of law-breaking business owners.
It sucks but its also how the sausage is made at present.
I strongly disagree. This is the rightward ratchet that led us to Trump and will lead to worse. Haven’t we all seen by now how lesser-evilism is a failed strategy?
Embracing neoliberalism even harder will only embolden the abusive class and it doesn’t have the popular support.
I have family members a couple generations back who were builders and roofers and made a good living at it. They were US-born citizens and could support a family on that job. Other families could afford to afford to hire them to work on their houses.
The lie that there are “jobs that Americans won’t do” or that we can’t afford to pay Americans to do is historical revisionism and is only coming true because we keep basing every decision on how to make our ultra-wealthy abusers even richer. We can do better than this.
The reality is that America only works by exploiting illegals.
If we magic wand illegals into citizens everything will explode in cost and then the government will try and spend their way out of the economic disaster, creating massive inflation.
If we magic wand illegals out of the country everything will explode in cost and then the government will try and spend their way out of an economic disaster while the foundation of our economy collapses, with runaway inflation.
Over the past decades we could have eased into an economy that isn't dependant on illegal exploitation, but that would have hurt profits, and we can't be having that.
Considering most of the people involved in said industry probably voted for Trump, I decidedly don’t care. Face, meet leopards.
Shocked Pikachu
I hope they suffer and crumble. It will be HILARIOUS! I'm all done giving a fuck what the collateral damage is. Hey, any construction companies that don't use slave labor, get those contracts ready and add some zeros!