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Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
That's bullshit. In Arizona when tough legislation chased the illegals away, ranchers and farmers invested in new agricultural equipment that did nearly all the jobs the illegals had done, creating new jobs for equipment manufacturers and increasing wages for remaining agricultural workers. The crops will be picked and processed by machines and American agricultural workers will earn more because the illegals are gone.Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
Enforce the law, and it'll work.Change the law.
Trump lost three key executives of his Atlantic City casinos in a freak helicopter accident:Even so, Trump's casinos failed long before Atlantic City did."History lesson: More Republicans than Democrats supported NAFTA."Why are Republicans fighting Trump on NAFTA reform?
"Republicans gear up to fight Trump over Nafta"
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LOL. A three month old article that states "Republicans gear up to fight Trump over Nafta", yet the only republican they mentioned was Orrin Hatch.
Trump will re-negotiate NAFTA, whether you like it or not. And as everything else he negotiates, we will get the better end of the deal.
History lesson: More Republicans than Democrats supported NAFTA
Republicans tried passing NAFTA when Bush the Groper was in the White House; they had to wait for Clinton to seal the deal.
BTW, if Trump is such a skillful negotiator, how did he manage to lose money in Atlantic City?
Because Atlantic City was and is a stupid place to spend a lot of $$$ on a gambling mecca. Stupid state rules and no viable place for employees to live.
Some of his critics allege Trump did not even bother to learn the odds on the games played in "his" casinos.
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
"His audacious personality and opulent properties brought attention — and countless players — to Atlantic City as it sought to overtake Las Vegas as the country’s gambling capital.
"But a close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings by The New York Times leaves little doubt that Mr. Trump’s casino business was a protracted failure.
"Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside city’s gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
"But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well.
"He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments.
"The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen."
As a professional slot machine player, I knew people who went to Atlantic City to gamble on selected machines with growing jackpots. Every one of them stayed away from the Trump casino as its machines had the worst payoffs of all.
Have you ever seen mechanical harvesters for grapes, citrus, avocados, or strawberries? I suppose such devices are possible, but their cost would be well beyond what's currently being spent to harvest those crops. How much more for your fruits and vegetables are you willing to pay in order to stem illegal immigration?That's bullshit. In Arizona when tough legislation chased the illegals away, ranchers and farmers invested in new agricultural equipment that did nearly all the jobs the illegals had done, creating new jobs for equipment manufacturers and increasing wages for remaining agricultural workers. The crops will be picked and processed by machines and American agricultural workers will earn more because the illegals are gone.Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
They are possible and after the initial investment is amortized over the expected life of the machines, they cost less than illegals.Have you ever seen mechanical harvesters for grapes, citrus, avocados, or strawberries? I suppose such devices are possible, but their cost would be well beyond what's currently being spent to harvest those crops. How much more for your fruits and vegetables are you willing to pay in order to stem illegal immigration?That's bullshit. In Arizona when tough legislation chased the illegals away, ranchers and farmers invested in new agricultural equipment that did nearly all the jobs the illegals had done, creating new jobs for equipment manufacturers and increasing wages for remaining agricultural workers. The crops will be picked and processed by machines and American agricultural workers will earn more because the illegals are gone.Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
Corporate welfare is a propaganda term used by wannabe socialists that has no real meaning.Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
Now you see them, now you don't.
"Immigration authorities have detained in recent weeks two prominent activists who are themselves illegal immigrants, demonstrating the Trump administration’s commitment to expand the pool of deportable aliens.
The arrested men have openly lived in the U.S. for years and have until recently enjoyed a de facto immunity from deportation, thanks to their status as high-profile immigrants’ rights activists. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have denied the arrests are politically motivated, but they clearly show that immigration agents are now emboldened to arrest even the most connected of illegal immigrants."
ICE Is Enforcing Deportation Orders Against High-Profile Illegal Immigrant Activists
Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
What would you call this:Corporate welfare is a propaganda term used by wannabe socialists that has no real meaning.Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
It's called a business doing the best it can in Obama's stagnant economy. People shop at Walmart because of its low prices. Raise the wages means raise the prices means less business means fewer jobs. Corporate welfare has no real meaning.What would you call this:Corporate welfare is a propaganda term used by wannabe socialists that has no real meaning.Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"Walmart, meanwhile, is double-dipping in the corporate welfare.
"It’s able to keep wages low thanks to the benefits — a well-known phenomenon — but then it also cashes in on the other end, when those employees and others earning low wages spend their food stamps at Walmart.
"The company has disclosed in the past that it was the recipient of an estimated 18 percent of total food stamp spending.
"That’s $14 billion out of $80 billion in 2012."
Socialists sacrificed much of their agenda when they dissolved the worker soviets in Russia a century ago. Today's equivalent's are worker-self-directed enterprises as this interview shows:Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
Yes, well while small businesses often can't afford to pay more, Walmart can.
Not here, but elsewhere I've specifically asked a question on a board, why Conservatives blame the worker for going on welfare for his low wages, rather than blaming the company, it seems the worker is more of a victim, in many cases, than anything else.
Exactly why the Fascists had the best approach, they had councils micromanage Corporations between the workers, the owners, and state to set wages. however small businesses were left along, which made for small business growth, and fair Corporations.
Clearly a brilliant idea, it's no wonder why the elite hate Fascism so much, among other reasons like how Fascists created closed circuit autarky economies that functioned well, and how Fascists typically target elite groups like Freemasons, or Jews.
Not that I'm a Nazi, just they got more things right than Republicans, or Democrats.
Now you see them, now you don't.
"Immigration authorities have detained in recent weeks two prominent activists who are themselves illegal immigrants, demonstrating the Trump administration’s commitment to expand the pool of deportable aliens.
The arrested men have openly lived in the U.S. for years and have until recently enjoyed a de facto immunity from deportation, thanks to their status as high-profile immigrants’ rights activists. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have denied the arrests are politically motivated, but they clearly show that immigration agents are now emboldened to arrest even the most connected of illegal immigrants."
ICE Is Enforcing Deportation Orders Against High-Profile Illegal Immigrant Activists
Thank God for President Donald Trump!
Another perspective:
As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect | Democracy Now!
"As Senate Democrats say they’ll vote against a government spending bill that fails to protect DACA recipients, setting up a potential government shutdown, we look at the worldwide refugee crisis.
"The United Nations Refugee Agency reports the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.
"As the humanitarian crisis grows, the United States and many other nations are limiting immigration and closing their borders.
"During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of many majority-Muslim nations.
"When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades."
More than 65 million displaced and, of all nations on the planet, the US is most responsible.
Trump is doing what dictators-in-waiting always do.
He's blaming immigrants for the sins of rich parasites.
Another perspective:
As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect | Democracy Now!
"As Senate Democrats say they’ll vote against a government spending bill that fails to protect DACA recipients, setting up a potential government shutdown, we look at the worldwide refugee crisis.
"The United Nations Refugee Agency reports the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.
"As the humanitarian crisis grows, the United States and many other nations are limiting immigration and closing their borders.
"During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of many majority-Muslim nations.
"When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades."
More than 65 million displaced and, of all nations on the planet, the US is most responsible.
Trump is doing what dictators-in-waiting always do.
He's blaming immigrants for the sins of rich parasites.
So...you would rather have illegal aliens have jobs that American citizens could fill?
It's called crony-capitalismIt's called a business doing the best it can in Obama's stagnant economy. People shop at Walmart because of its low prices. Raise the wages means raise the prices means less business means fewer jobs. Corporate welfare has no real meaning.What would you call this:Corporate welfare is a propaganda term used by wannabe socialists that has no real meaning.Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"Walmart, meanwhile, is double-dipping in the corporate welfare.
"It’s able to keep wages low thanks to the benefits — a well-known phenomenon — but then it also cashes in on the other end, when those employees and others earning low wages spend their food stamps at Walmart.
"The company has disclosed in the past that it was the recipient of an estimated 18 percent of total food stamp spending.
"That’s $14 billion out of $80 billion in 2012."
Bullshit, he is enforcing America's immigration laws. In the 1960's when the Democrats controlled the WH and both house of Congress, the most liberal US government in history passed a merit based immigration system so that with the exception of unification of close relatives, no one can legally emigrate to the US unless they possess talents or abilities that are needed here. Because of this system, legal immigrants on average have a higher educational lever than the average American, meaning each of them brings a positive change to the US.Another perspective:
As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect | Democracy Now!
"As Senate Democrats say they’ll vote against a government spending bill that fails to protect DACA recipients, setting up a potential government shutdown, we look at the worldwide refugee crisis.
"The United Nations Refugee Agency reports the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.
"As the humanitarian crisis grows, the United States and many other nations are limiting immigration and closing their borders.
"During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of many majority-Muslim nations.
"When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades."
More than 65 million displaced and, of all nations on the planet, the US is most responsible.
Trump is doing what dictators-in-waiting always do.
He's blaming immigrants for the sins of rich parasites.
Yet another meaningless propaganda term.It's called crony-capitalismIt's called a business doing the best it can in Obama's stagnant economy. People shop at Walmart because of its low prices. Raise the wages means raise the prices means less business means fewer jobs. Corporate welfare has no real meaning.What would you call this:Corporate welfare is a propaganda term used by wannabe socialists that has no real meaning.Corporate welfare is costing US taxpayers billions in food stamps and SSI benefits:So, basically we the tax payers are paying the tab, for businesses quest for cheap labor?
Because illegals, and their children cost us a lot more, than they contribute into the system.
So, you know what tell businesses to go F themselves, even the Mexicans are Balkanizing the U.S.A in a hostile way.
This is only beneficial to their mania, nothing more than their greed.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"In 2013, Walmart alone cost taxpayers $6.2 billion for expenses such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance. One study released earlier this year estimated that taxpayers spent $152.8 billion in 2015 as a result of low wages."
The big difference I see between US workers at Walmart and farm laborers from Mexico is this: it was deliberate trade/tax policy of the US government (NAFTA) to dispossess millions of Mexican corn farmers who would never have had any incentive to migrate to the US without being forced to compete against US taxpayer subsidized corn.
In both cases, it's a classic example of privatizing profits and socializing costs.
There’s a New Way to Make Walmart Pay for the Food Stamps Employees Rely On
"Walmart, meanwhile, is double-dipping in the corporate welfare.
"It’s able to keep wages low thanks to the benefits — a well-known phenomenon — but then it also cashes in on the other end, when those employees and others earning low wages spend their food stamps at Walmart.
"The company has disclosed in the past that it was the recipient of an estimated 18 percent of total food stamp spending.
"That’s $14 billion out of $80 billion in 2012."
"Bernie Sanders says Walmart heirs are wealthier than bottom 40 percent of Americans"
Bernie Sanders says Walmart heirs are wealthier than bottom 40 percent of Americans
