i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious
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Aaron Rupar
MacCALLUM: Will American workers make shirts and garments for the same--? Obviously the labor costs are so much cheaper overseas in those places
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
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https://truthout.org/articles/fl-gop-bill-would-allow-employers-to-schedule-child-workers-for-overnight-shifts/
Women, children & slaves were chattle, regardless of color. But, this "adminstration" wants to erase history and bring us back to the beginning, monied, property owning, white men only having power.
Torch economy
Enshrine monopoly, reindustrialize
Decimate social safety net
Nullify indie judiciary/legal profession
Handcuff dissent
Hamstring voting/buy elections
Centralize & arm surveillance/police/military
= desperate, powerless, hopeless, trapped, compliant, cheap, feudal factory labor
They’ve explicitly stated it multiple times.
Let’s stop being polite and refusing to assume the worst.
I’m dreaming that tomorrow the slow and steady approach gets put on hold, the military and DC police show some backbone & join us in the world’s most epic citizens arrest.
We keep thinking this “great America” is 1950s US but maybe it’s actually 1900s US 🤷♀️
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rfk-jr-liheap-heating-assistance
Their brains are broken.
Fox Faux sure is cruel to their viewers.
Defund schools, stop scholarships, kill science and Make America Poor Again. What could go wrong⁉️😣😖🥺
Forty five years later, new technology and methods on top of the increased labor cost you are looking at double to triple the present cost.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl2Nhy9U
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178265077/industries-facing-worker-shortages-push-to-roll-back-child-labor-protections
Cost of material for a shirt - 1.00
Plus one dollar profit = 3.25
65% tariff = 5.00 for a shirt.
Wages in USA 15.00
Cost of material for a shirt - 1.00
Cost of shirt= 16.00
It won’t create jobs, just raise prices.
11 states have quietly been rolling back child labor laws.
Their plans are truly sick.
That's the after-school shift for teens in Arkansas and Florida today...
Good job, America. You dumbf*cks!
Salt mines, do we have sal mines? For the first time in generations we do not wish for our children to be educated, to do better.
They’re cruel through and through
Their Mama was a sewer @ a plant 9hr shift. Maria would have dinner ready then she helped her Mom do piece work til 12 on a power machine Zzzoooommm clip
Not the golden age they expected but the one they deserve
If anyone wants to understand where the USA is headed, read some Dickens.
'More please, Sir' is what people eager for crumbs say to their ruler.
Destroying the US economy/institutions makes every citizen a supplicant.
However this is what I'm talking about
Apologies to the hardship this will bring to so many laborers overseas!
Hint: Olds and injured will be dying soon after retirement.
14 year-olds working overnight shifts. During the school year. No mystery about the goal, here.
https://www.cfpublic.org/politics/2025-04-03/florida-legislators-seek-to-reform-child-labor-laws
https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3llzrfoxwik2a
Robin Threads was the 1st supplier to come west & we had a black ♀️ that was the Zipper checker. All day she stood & zipped zippers
Zip up zip down
“They're closing down the textile mill
Across the railroad tracks
Foreman says, "These jobs are going, boys
And they ain't coming back”
It's a good thing you have mechanical cotton pickers now or you'd be back there too.
Billionaires are happy tonight.
Build America, Buy American my left foot.
🤔… I am not sure which is worse 🤨
Cyberpunk with more 1984 and less fun
Nobody WANTS this work to be repatriated.
I don’t wish it on anyone, foreign or domestic.