Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?
Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?
www.economist.com Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?
Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow
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Nope.
Our economy is built upon the exploitation of illegal immigrants and removing them will cause a correction that wages will not be able to keep pace with. Ultimately the economy will be better, but can the economy survive the transition? Probably not, but drastic economic corrections will result in a better economy on the other side if the value of the economy favors the working class. America's best economy was after the great depression through the 1980s, but can this generation accomplish the same without a wartime economy kicking it off? Time will tell.
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You're not looking big picture.
Mass deportations mean a lot of very menial jobs like picking strawberries or washing dishes go unfilled.
But, there about to be thousands of career government employees out of work soon, plus massive criminal incarceration. So it all balances out.
During Albania's truly dark socialist history, political prisoners and criminals did the tough agriculture work. They worked until they died. Tepelene first, then the Nov 29 farm.
The communists already set the mold here 60-ish years ago. Nothing new is being invented.
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If the Deepseek reveal is any indication, I don't think the plutocrats are prepared. They've been wasting money buying politicians and strangling the rest of us for so long that unlike the late 1940s, there's no base to the economy anymore and no protective structure to invigorate it. The middle class is all but hollowed out, and the majority of people are a financial crisis away from bankruptcy.
If people can band together as communities, though, they'll make it. If others keep up with this "us" and "them" bullshit, they'll crumble.
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