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Originally Posted by GatorB
Ok 5% of the US work force is illegal and ironically that is also the umemployment rate. Hmmmmmmmmm.
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Well I guess that just about sums it up!
The low wages for illegals reminds me of the farmworker's strikes of the 70's. Ceaser Chavez fought hard for their rights. People were being treated like slaves. I know because I did a book report in high school on it that was so thorough it was used by the Farmworkers Union, several newspapers and the government. Got a job in newspapers due to that report and I was a kid!
If prices for produce shot up people would starve. Prices across the board would shoot up. The gap tween rich and poor would be so wide it would make the days of serfdom seem like the roaring 20's.
We're teetering on that quantum leap. It's gonna happen. Sooner or later UNLESS a breakthrough in energy or medicine takes place. Stem cell research and alternate energy solutions are here but being blocked. Reason being is that if curing ills is cheap and easy and spendable income can't be absorbed by high price fuels the rich would not see a gain. That's untrue as the rich would see those gains in the consumption of goods and services as more spendable income was available. Problem is the controlling infrastructure works at a procedure where your income is automatically consumed by high energy and medical costs so you CAN'T get ahead. The powers that be don't want the competition.