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8mo ago

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8mo ago

Social programs ain't the solution they said

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Meanwhile labor shortages.
- Do labor shortages even exist? Usually when I hear this claim with respect to the US economy it’s complete bullshit.
  
  No, there is no such thing as a labor shortage. There is only employers' unwillingness to pay market wages.
  
  A shortage of people willing to work 60 hours a week to still not afford a place to live and food to eat.
  
  Sectorial and regional labor shortages are real. In a population the size of the US, national labor shortages don’t— it’s just wages below what the labor market determines appropriate.
  
  Yes, in certain industries, namely manual labor. There's currently an orange shortage because Florida ran out so many migrant workers.

Mmm yeah an underused meme template

Whenever you don’t understand why something has ever been fixed, look for the gravy train.

So. We the people, meat sacks who pay taxes; are paying $775/ day…
TO WHAT CONTRACTOR? I’m guessing here, that cost is being paid to KBR? to house them. Just a guess?

Cursed Roddy Piper has a disturbing face

Another prison system, another prison system, another prison system for you and me
- My favorite quote will always be: "Blast off, it's party time and we live in a fascist nation"

Not if you add it to a non-dischargable debt the inmate has to repay, and attach any wages to repay it, including government assistance, such as welfare. ♻️♺
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- They used our taxes to pay back our taxes!

To private companies that run the prisons probably. There's money to make at the border.
- Why do you think they never "fix" it? Good as a campaign issue and good for kickbacks.

Welfare would help them but we're more into punishing foreigners.
- Just brown people. The GOP hates them.
- They don't care about the cost if it means people they don't like are being punished. The alternative could be half the price and they would still go this route.
  The cruelty is the point.

I don't think this argument would go in the right direction, cause there's plenty of Republican types who'll just go 'ok, then let's just shoot them on sight, bullets are cheap'.

Watched this recently. "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum".
- Piper made up that line!
  Easily one of the best fights ever filmed. Just brutal.
  
  I love how they're like... frenemies during the fight, so three's a bit where he grabs a metal pole and breaks a window of a car, realises what he's done, says sorry, throws the pole away, and they go back to fisticuffs.

Thank goodness Biden reinstated the Criminal Only focus of the ICE.

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