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Freedom Outpost
We hear the following as a “reason” why America ought to permit illegal immigrants to wander and run across the Rio Grande into Texas: “Immigrants will do the work Americans won’t or refuse to do. We need these immigrants.” We’ve heard this over and over again. Sometimes we believe it, sometimes we don’t. But what I’ve not heard is where we’re heading with all this, and why.
Put aside for a moment the idea that Democrats want voters, and that illegal immigrants will become de facto, or actual, citizens, through the “magic” of amnesty. Rather, let’s think about economics.
What does China have which makes them the powerhouse competitor for manufactured goods? Above and beyond all things, including easier government regulations, from taxes to pollution, and relatively-inexpensive factory space, China uses slave labor.
What we mean by “slave labor” is a workforce which en masse takes a wage much lower than the wage paid to a workforce in a competing country.
Let’s say that in the United States it costs a manufacturer $25 per hour to find good machinists, tool-and-die, logistical, and supervisory employees, and $15 per hour for any experienced worker worth a dang, and $8-10 for service and agricultural workers. If in China those same workers make 1/2 or 1/3 those wages, China has the extreme edge over the United States when it comes to manufacturing, or virtually any other industry which can be exported, tariffs notwithstanding.
What logical conclusion do we come to? That it would behoove any nation seeking to compete with Chinese manufacturing to lower its costs. Besides taxes, what could be more natural than to destroy the wage base?
I’m not advocating this, I’m merely asking you to think about it.
So what is a flood of Mexicans besides a Cloward-and-Piven strategy to overwhelm border control? What is a flood of Mexicans besides a ploy to make good little Democrats? What is a flood of Mexicans but a poke in the eye to current American culture? What is a flood of Mexicans besides an anti-colonialist counter-move, or counter-strategy?
Reposted with permission