Deporting illegals was suggested by some conservatives along with closing the border and reducing legal immigration levels.
Not sure if the left is going to get onboard with that or not.
There was talk by Hillary and Obama in 2008 of revisiting our failed trade policies such as NAFTA and the 2000 China Trade Act.
I don`t see much happening there either.
Of course, this is a much more complicated issue than what you are presenting.
The first obstacle to wiping out poverty is the fact that the Democrat Party owes its political success to its failed economic policies.
After all, no one needs a party of government handouts if they are making too much money to qualify for the handouts.
The Democratic political strategy of keeping otherwise independent hardworking Americans dependent on government programs through high unemployment and declining wages goes back to the failure of the New Deal and the political success Democrats enjoyed then (FDR had to die in office to loose the White House).
We also have to understand and accept the fact that propaganda works and people, with the correct prodding, will willingly participate in their own enslavement.
You can go to any buy-here/pay-here used car lot or payday advance service to confirm that.
In recent years, those promoting dependency have started using the media to advertise the benefits of dependency for those willing to cut ties with the job market.
For example, you can have a free cell phone, but there are conditions...
You may automatically qualify for Lifeline service provided by Access Wireless if you participate in any of the following public assistance programs:
- Federal Public Housing Assistance/Section 8
- Low-Income Housing Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Medicaid
- National School Lunch Program's Free Lunch Program (NSLP)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps
- Supplemental Security Income* (SSI)
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
- Tribal Qualifying Program based on State of residence
https://www.accesswireless.com/lifel...ou-can-qualify
If you work for a living, spend a large portion of your paycheck on crappy health insurance, pay your own rent, pay your own electric and gas bill, buy your own food and otherwise handle your own financial affairs in a responsible manner, the people who hand out the free phones would like you to know that you and your job can go **** yourself.
You get nothing because you are not on the right team (See list above).
Its the same set of carrots and sticks used in the 1930s, but with a more direct requirement that you be a fully committed mooch...fence sitters not welcome.
Enter illegal immigrants:
Amnesty is being talked about quite a bit with corporate ***** Republicans eager to give criminals from another country the legal right to compete directly with Americans for legitimate jobs and thereby drive down prevailing wages to the delight of their corporate overlords.
Democrats just want falling wages and the accompanying increase in dependency on government largess that is their political lifeblood.
Meanwhile, median family incomes that have been declining ever since the mid 2000s should be expected to fall off the table once amnesty becomes the law of the land.
The solutions are simple from an ordinary American`s perspective, but the powers that be have other ideas.
Corporate ***** Republicans want poverty-level wages.
Democrats just want more poverty.
From where I sit, the solutions to poverty in the US are pretty obvious.
We could reduce the number of workers to increase wages by deporting illegals.
A bounty could be offered for information leading to the deportation of illegal workers, and mandatory prison sentences for those who employ illegals would help as well.
We could withdraw from our ****ty trade deals and negotiate new ones that ensure the US a favorable outcome to trade.
We could reduce marginal corporate tax rates to European levels and stop selling exemptions to regulations.
We could prohibit the rewarding of politicians after they leave office for screwing America while in office.
We could stop filling our workforce with unemployable retards by giving each and every child in the US an education voucher that public schools will need to compete for in order to stay in business.
We could raise interest rates relative to inflation in order to increase the buying power of the US dollar (see Reaganomics).
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Welfare is forhelp, notgarranteed Additional Income!
