Illegals

You know, if we look at the American nation as a whole, and American workers as a whole, people who come over here and work for sub-market wages illegally, or who drive wages down across an industry because they are so poor they will work for peanuts, are effectively scabs.  They are strike breakers.  They are an impediment to wage negotiations.

It is true that most Americans will not landscape for $9/hour.  But the wage used to be $15/hour or more.  There are places in Texas where you can hire an electrician for $11/hour.  Most people born here won’t work for that.  But the wage used to be $15-$18/hour or more.

Anyone with the most rudimentary understanding of economics–supply and demand is usually taught on the first day in most Economics classes–cannot fail to grasp that large numbers of people willing to work for low wages hurt the people who would otherwise be doing that work, and HELP the people hiring them.  Large corporations LOVE cheap labor. 

Who do YOU think is running the propaganda in favor of pretending we don’t have border laws and that all the people coming here pushing down wages have no effect at all?  It’s sure as fuck not the unions.  Any and all of them, if they take the time to smoke one cigarette and put two and two together, should abandon this current crop of Democrats en masse, as they largely did in 2016.

The cards are on the table.  To pretend otherwise is undignified and stupid.