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    Blame the fact that it’s so difficult to immigrate legally yet an overwhelming number of businesses rely on cheap immigrant labor. This is a feature, not a bug, because they can pay the illegal immigrants less and abuse them without fear of reprisal because if the employer gets any attitude about it, they call ICE and have the worker deported and replaced with the next struggling desperate immigrant.

    There is no illegal worker in the US that would rather be an illegal worker than a legal carded one. The system is stacked against them because it saves businesses money to do so.

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      I blame the idiots that think prosperity we enjoy here in the USA is some sort of unlimited resource and that we can just print money when we run out.

      Go ahead, print more money. Hope you’ve already bought your wheelbarrow.

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        Yes, because naturally no other country in the world enjoys a similar level of prosperity without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

        We don’t need to print more money, we have more than enough money. We just need to recirculate the money we do have. There is plenty of money in the USA for most citizens to live a comfortable life without exploitation, but 80% of that money is buried in the pockets of corporations and 15% of the remaining 20% is buried in the pockets of billionaires.

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          naturally no other country in the world enjoys a similar level of prosperity without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

          There literally isn’t. Whine about the percentages all you want. You still have a higher standard of living than literally anywhere else in the world.

          Capitalism did that. It’s not perfect but it’s better than anything else.

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            Right, so Finland, France, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy all don’t exist. Got it.

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              without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

              Just because you don’t know about them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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      Don’t forget to save some blame for the CIA destabilizing South American governments and terrible living conditions for a huge percentage of the population.

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        South American governments should get their shit together. But they can’t and we all know why. Importing that here is like shitting in your pool then wondering why no one want to swim at your pool party.

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          Yeah we all know why. Because every time someone improves conditions for their citizens and nationalized american industries, they get Allende’d.

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          It’s pretty hard to “get your shit together” when a hegemonic for profits from you not having your shit together.

          In the mean time, what should the regular people do? Just keep suffering through society in a chokehold from drug cartels? Keep raising their kids there?