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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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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I am old enough to remember pre globalization in the UK, we went through that pain, especially in the North East of England where I live.
Perhaps the US is large enough to get away with it, but one thing we in the UK learned with Brexit - going it alone costs.
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
Only in Atlas Shrugged does a child who works in a mine become a leader of industry.
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.
"Cheap Labor" isn't just "Exploited Labor", it's "Free Labor". They don't want to pay anything at all.
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.
So, apparently, we are going back to the early 1900's: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
I don’t know any immigrant who came to America - and we are ALL immigrants regardless of how white you are - to work their butts off so their kids could toil in factories…
They’re cruel through and through
It has 15% of the previous labor as all of these plants are fully automated.
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
what they're NOT SAYING in public is it's a "reset" to back when Americans either found work or starved
those conditions can only be recreated by mass unemployment, a depression, mangled social safety nets, etc
exactly the conditions they're creating RIGHT NOW
he'll convince them the pain is some "patriotic duty" thing
low wages, dangerous conditions, child labor and all..
They'll be Patriots!
we all tried to tell them the guy is Pure Evil
but they didn't listen
Remember how many died from COVID
Trump didn't bat an eye. He's fully prepared for a lot of death
He KNOWS it'll happen
Doesn't care
He's Evil.
Only way to get US to work the wages they plan to pay is
•Bring back Poverty with a Depression
•Screw up Social Safety nets so there's nothing to fall back on
•Start Mass Unemployment avalanche with fired Fed Gov employees
THE STUFF THEY'RE DOING
They won't know it's happening until we're a few years into it and they've already sold their guns for food
...besides, Trump knows they'll never turn on him
no matter what he does
He's an Accellerationist:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/country-goes-hell-2014-video-shows-trump-bragging-crash-economy-get-way/
But, eh, people are surprising me every day, so who knows.
This country will be literally swimming in cheap labor
This is Trump's dream for America
(well it's his dream for himself really)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/child-labor-protections-could-soon-093000849.html
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.
This is Trump's dream for America
However this is what I'm talking about