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originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: EternalShadow
Not trying to "get off" of anything. I know I have blood on my hands.
It sounds like your saying because my government has hurt innocent people I should just go along with it
every time?
No I'm saying as Americans, we're ALL complicit ALL the time. Innocent people or not, we benefit from cheap food (kinda), cheap gas (kinda), and America's Got Talent every night, if you're so inclined.
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: EternalShadow
If you just used a group of people to make your products as cheap as possible to save you money, exploited their legal status to do so, and then kick them out after reaping the reward with no penalty yourself is that really taking responsibility?
Morality is apparently a hard concept for some.
Most illegals are in a class where savings is not used. So what happens is they spend all there income on rent, cars, sometimes insurance, they get buyers and buy homes after they have been carpenters for several years in the us. A portion goes home to families as well.
They come here because it's very easy to get a job from the real cheaters. The employers. In a state like Texas it's nearly impossible to have a residential construction crew on the books completely because your competitors are using cheaper labor. Rick Perry himself became rich using illegals in building projects.
The people making a killing are their employers who find ways of dodging billions collectively in workman's comp, taxes, etc then reinvest the scammed money they saved,...and it's actually states like Texas who have right to work philosophies that have the most illegals.
The illegal boogeyman is a hoax.
The illegals are a foundation of a fake market. It's a sad fact of keeping the cpi in check since inflation is completely decided by central banks now.