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Originally Posted by skarlorn
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the real problem for america atm is that we used to UTILIZE these shithole immigrants in a big way. we made them build up the country and suffer for 1-2 generations in poverty; unless they turned to crime. nowadays we have "laws" so we aren't able to exploit these immigrants like we used to.
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I think that's a sliver of the problem. Also, what America has learned is to privatize power/businesses that are lucrative so the rich get richer and the country gets poorer.
Correctional facilities are awesomely lucrative. So the rich have started to power through removing correctional facilities from state and county control and begun creating private correctional facilities where guards get paid much less and shittier benefits.
Wars used to be lucrative for the country too. People went to factories to build weaponry and war materials. Now, work is outsourced for cheaper labor.
We have private corporations/contractors (Halliburton etc.) that have taken over many of the money-making facets of war so the money goes not to the country and it's people but to the companies that now operate and get billion dollar contracts with the US government which foots the bill with our tax monies.
Rebuilding in Iraq? Hand that contract to Halliburton... Tax money goes out to pay these private corporations, none of it comes back in to the country (or very little.)
I mean, this is my perception of it, or at least a small sliver of what I see.