BigMike wrote:
I*****l i*********n does two things that affect us poor folks in a way we can no longer ignore...
1) It lends credence to the lie that "there are jobs Americans just won't do." This is a subtle form of brainwashing that makes people feel justified in being on the dole.
During the Dust Bowl Americans picked fruit and onions. I would gladly have picked onions here where live when I got out of prison but unless I speak Spanish I can't pick fkn onions!
As soon a they have to, americans would do those jobs, which seguays into my next point.
2) When Americans do those jobs wages rise from the bottom up...the way it works the best.
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Agriculture could never be fully mechanised, cotton and onions are machinery jobs, fruit trees are not, but even there I remember my production horticulture teacher telling me that pear trees were once grown so high an extension ladder was needed to get em down now their all pruned to16 foot fully grown.
So there are still rotten jobs I agree but probably not as many, I don't really believe driving jobs will disappear, and they require stable jobseekers with a good record, even supermarket automated serve yourself terminals require trust on behalf of the shopper, everything does especially domestic workers going into people's homes to mow the grass cut down trees clean the floor, all requires trust that doesn't come from living on the street trust comes from being treated fairly.
We as hippies had a feel good story that I don't think has anything to do with what's happening now.
You had family connections same as me I also had tool making to fall back on these people on the street probably haven't got that so can't get a start, and like Ron Paul mentioned high house prices and low wages.
How do you treat i*****l i*******ts fairly, we took the easy option and adopted offshore processing, this is a violation of international law and the Biblical Statutes of giving sanctuary by making it available in special situations, this could easily be done by Communes both off shore over the border and even in house Comunes, different passports would apply this is one reason why China went from rags to riches the Chinese can travel but you can't necessary stay.
Thanks for your opinion, the people in power have to decide, Ron Paul is against making assistance available, I think being a Stalinist, that collective industries with affordable on site living complexes offers "no travelling" to work, entertainment sport and recreation at hand, what could be better, or better still is there any other alternative other than prison, which "wasn't" the way the problum was solved 90 years ago , it was solved by communal living.
Jimmy Carter said the prison population has more than quadrupled since his day, Carter 25k Obama 160k it's gone down to 149k under Trump.