W.J. Astore They’re Everywhere in America Soon after Joe Biden took office as president in 2021, I remember hearing that his VP, Kamala Harris, was put in charge of immigration, informally kn…
Anyways, she already massively hurt blue collar americans with her border policy, and if she wins, shell have even more power to hurt us more.
So yeah, I dont like ot when someone who has hurt me and people like me in the past, promises to do so in the future, and is trying to get more power to hurt us.
Anyways, she already massively hurt blue collar americans with her border policy
Except that over the last 40 years conservatives have done more to hurt blue collar workers than 4 years of border policy ever could.
Starting in the late 1970s policymakers began dismantling all the policy bulwarks helping to ensure that typical workers’ wages grew with productivity. Excess unemployment was tolerated to keep any chance of inflation in check. Raises in the federal minimum wage became smaller and rarer. Labor law failed to keep pace with growing employer hostility toward unions. Tax rates on top incomes were lowered. And anti-worker deregulatory pushes—from the deregulation of the trucking and airline industries to the retreat of anti-trust policy to the dismantling of financial regulations and more—succeeded again and again. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
If American workers had rights and protections, immigrants wouldn’t be able to drive down the price of labor so badly - but it’s not the immigrants that are the problem, it’s the fervant belief that the “free market” yields the best results. You see what the invisible hand of the market does, and blame the immigrants. You blame that bad ole Kamala. That’s just how the wealthy factory owners want it.
Kamala didn’t hurt you, the heritage foundation did.
You are terrified of Harris.
Probably because she’s twenty years younger then Trump and is able to run circles around him while countering all his lies.
I have op marked as a troll, it’s not worth engaging with them because they will not do so in good faith.
Didnt you get banned?
Anyways, she already massively hurt blue collar americans with her border policy, and if she wins, shell have even more power to hurt us more.
So yeah, I dont like ot when someone who has hurt me and people like me in the past, promises to do so in the future, and is trying to get more power to hurt us.
Thats a perfectly reasonable fear.
Starting off with an ad hominem fallacy?
I engage in the conversation in a civil and productive matter, if you don’t like what I’m saying you can just block me.
Except that over the last 40 years conservatives have done more to hurt blue collar workers than 4 years of border policy ever could.
If American workers had rights and protections, immigrants wouldn’t be able to drive down the price of labor so badly - but it’s not the immigrants that are the problem, it’s the fervant belief that the “free market” yields the best results. You see what the invisible hand of the market does, and blame the immigrants. You blame that bad ole Kamala. That’s just how the wealthy factory owners want it.
Kamala didn’t hurt you, the heritage foundation did.