Wanted: Coal Miner, 12 hr/day, 7 days/week, salaried position (no overtime), no healthcare, no retirement, no vacation $432/wk.
Wanted: Computer Programmer, Masters Degree Required, 20k/yr, no benefits.
ETC.
Don't forget conservatives worship Reagan. Remember him the man who fired all of the air traffic controllers, decertified their union and forbade the rehiring of anyone who was fired. It will be Capitalist Nirvana, immigrants and Americans willing to cut each other's throats to work at slave wages for any job available. And we wonder why the Republicans don't want to allow federal funding overseas to go birth control.
Real Solutions
1) Fair Trade Agreements - that actually benefit the broad populations of a country not just a few multinational companies and the controlling elite in the governments of those countries.
2) Advocate for Real Democracy - End the interference in the internal affairs of countries where active populist movements are trying to bring more equity and freedom to people.
3) Development Assistance - Stop the consolidation of money and power in a few hands and help countries to develop local economies.
4) Sharing the Wealth - Paying living wages in both this country and abroad.
5) Requiring Employers to be Legal - Instituting civil and criminal penalties for hiring illegal aliens and enforcing them.
6) Treating Aliens Right - If after Americans are employed at decent wages there are jobs left, allow registered legal migration and give those people the opportunity to bring their families and become citizens following the naturalization process. This is a country of immigrants and we need to honor that tradition.
These are the real solutions. Will they happen? Probably not until workers around the world realize they are all being exploited and join forces to stop it. Until then the Minutemen will be exploited for political gain, the aliens for economic gain and the rest of us will suffer the consequences.
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