So let’s do a capsule summary.
The Chamber of Congress, and lots of big businesses, want very cheap labor, cheaper than they can get from American citizens. While they have already screwed the United States over with outsourcing, the money they can make from that deal has reached the point of diminishing returns. So they now desperately want to import cheap laborers.
More and more, this seems to be an argument in favor of slavery.
While most people think that slavery ended in the South at the end of the Civil War, the truth is that those who were very addicted to cheap labor pushed hard to recreate slavery but without owning slaves.
A favorite trick was the “old hat full of nickels and dimes.”
That is, by law, sharecroppers would have to be paid for the fruits of their labor. Perhaps $200 for their crop, in the money of the time. Required to by law, the landowners had to offer them this money. And they did so with a bank check, a means of payment unknown to sharecroppers.
But then the landowners made them a deal. They could take that piece of paper, *or* they could take an old hat, filled to the brim with shiny nickles and dimes. And they would get to keep the old hat as well.
Almost invariably, not knowing better, they took the hat. Nickles and dimes they understood, if not that they were maybe getting just $20 instead of $200.
And that is basically the deal modern businesses want to foist on the American public. To let Mexican citizens work here, for less than minimum wage, but never give them citizenship, because then, by law, they would have to pay them fairly.
Yep, sounds pretty much like the post Civil War South.
Does anybody know who the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce are?
Somebody needs to make them famous.
People this vile shouldn’t be allowed to hide in the shadows. Make them famous.