Both.
This transfer of poverty-intellectual & cultural, as well as economic-is the crux of our domestic crisis.
Forcing or allowing the lower classes North, to work & send some major portion of their funds back South, constitutes a form of slavery. This is no petty charge-it is a very large plan. Governments & corporations benefit. Taxpayers pay.
The two governments conspire to ship cheap labor across the border & the US taxpayers are burdened with fantastic charges for hospitals, medications, build & staff new schools all over the nation, build & staff new prisons to house the uncivilized, build new housing for 'poor', &etc.
We must not be distracted by the smaller issues ( though some require our constant attention ). The larger scheme is THE issue which I have never seen discussed in its true dimension, perceived as the genuine threat that it is.
This transfer of poverty-intellectual as well as economic-is the crux of our domestic crisis & it impinges on foreign conflict-as it weakens us, it threatens our national interests around the world.
Entire states are bankrupt & we are satisfied only to remove the governor? I think we must shout about the larger issue.
When will W step forward to acknowledge & work to stop this-when our entire nation is bankrupt? When crime & social collapse are no longer restricted to inner-cities & remote factory towns, where criminal aliens are encamped to slaughter beef & poultry? When the the blue-bloods are so threatened by taxation & physical harm as to shake the power structure?
When W, WHEN?
The Chinese must laugh at us-we will collapse into their patient & ready hands. We may collapse tired & exhausted by taxation & distracted by confusing petty political squables.
The very election cycle hangs over us like a sword. The media can be patient-they look forward to having even more power-the corporations are assured of profits. Only the petty taxpayer will suffer under the burden. Our Mandarins are secure-the government bureacrats, educational administrators & teachers, even petty government employees, ( including state & county ) are assured of full employment. Many of these groups will remain in unions & all will vote in mass FOR the power structure which grows their legions.
Only the few hundred thousand ( or perhaps a few million ) who seriously read the net ) will KNOW what is happening. The matador holds forth a red cape of terror & the masses charge.
"The War does indeed have many facets;
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Good read GB.