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[–] Noot_Noot ago
Honestly I think our labour is over valued, which creates just as much of a problem. Every great achievement of man, and I'm thinking projects here such as railroads or the Manhattan project, has happened on the backs of 'undervalued' labour. It's necessary, and it's not racial.
If we can't import Chinese to build something anymore then starving dust-bowl whities work just as well. We used to do this via infrastructure programs that would take public dollars and give it to needy workers in exchange for their contribution to something great for the rest of the nation. But never did they ever pay an excellent wage. Never did they try to maintain compensation commensurate with the private sector, because if you could earn more there it was expected that you would. Not everyone can, and so these programs are perfect for lower i.q. or less conscientious folk. In this system, everyone wins.
Now everyone's an American rock star before they even get out of pampers and deserves to be paid as one. Our major projects never get off the ground due to costs, and the giant systems we have come to rely on, which were built only because of undervalued (or true cost) labour, are crumbling and we can't afford to fix them because they outlived the supposed slaves that built them.
Now I don't know about Mexicans and I can't speak to American immigration, but speaking only to labour and the economy there seems to be a shortage of organized but undervalued workers. There will be no solution to immigration until this need is addressed because you cannot function without them.
I would love to see a day when people were picked up off the streets as vagrants and taken to work on great world-changing projects. Two years mandatory paid (less so) stint at the workhouse the remind them that society expects something from their lazy douchebag asses.