In the "illegal immigrant rights' debate", much of it biased and dualistic, very rarely does the truth about immigrants and their "real contributions", their "real struggles" and their "real faces" receive "real" attention.
Businesses in America do not want to bell the "truth about the immigrantion" cat because they do gain from both "legal and illegal" immigrants - most of whom are "slave labor' (with or without education). It helps to have cheap labor, it helps to have compliant labor, it helps to have a grateful labor and it helps to have "I too will be rich some day" wishing labor. It does not help to have a highly educated or enlightened, assertive, clear, firm, socially aware and confidently negotiating labor, that not only demands "fair wages, benefits and protection" but also demands "fair opportunity for economic, social and political mobility and wealth".
American businesses were never fair...except when government laws demanded it squarely and its organizations implemented those laws fairly. This is why of late American businesses, mostly corporations, are going after the American legal and justice system - including the "Supreme Court".
The American mainstream media, lazy, incompetent, unintelligent and much of the time cunningly colluding with many corporations and corporate interests, does a good job of constantly presenting the government "as the problem", while business is presented as "the solution". If it is not for the American Constitution, a Government document, that Libertarians and Tea Party Activists rant and rave about where would their "civil liberties and rights" be? In the toilet!
But American Right-wing populist movements have never been known for their "consistency, truthfulness, reaslism, intelligence or honesty". The only way you can believe in Newt Gingrich, a preachy pontificating moralizing hypocrite, is not only by "avoiding the truth and the obvious contradictions between what he says and what he does", but "by suspending basic intelligence, self awareness, social awareness, connection to valid and verifiable facts and...sanity itself".
You have to believe, in an absurd manner, that it is "not okay" for government to regulate, not even influence, food and drug industries that can directly affect your health, welfare and life itself, but it is for that same government, run uusally by a whole bunch of conservative White men, to regulate women's bodies - more specifically their uterus. Do you see the contradiction in this belief?
American men in power, in an effort to make sure that their privelege and authority are protected and continuously enhanced, would like to see their taxes go down, as they present themselves as "job creators and jolly investors". But they would not mind taxes going up for the poor, the working class and the middle class. Should not, in a fair reliable secure upwardly mobile system, the working and the middle class not get a shot at "wealth and success"? So, why is it okay for the taxes of the rich to go down, but the non-rich, who are already struggling, see their taxes and costs go up? In a real capitalistic system, free from cronyism, should a woman of color, who struggled for twenty years (sacrificing, struggling, playing by the rules, educating herself and avoiding problems) not get a shot at "upward mobility and wealth"? Or is that only meant for "White people and men"? Do you see the Conservative hypocrisy on this matter?
Businesses in America do not want to bell the "truth about the immigrantion" cat because they do gain from both "legal and illegal" immigrants - most of whom are "slave labor' (with or without education). It helps to have cheap labor, it helps to have compliant labor, it helps to have a grateful labor and it helps to have "I too will be rich some day" wishing labor. It does not help to have a highly educated or enlightened, assertive, clear, firm, socially aware and confidently negotiating labor, that not only demands "fair wages, benefits and protection" but also demands "fair opportunity for economic, social and political mobility and wealth".
American businesses were never fair...except when government laws demanded it squarely and its organizations implemented those laws fairly. This is why of late American businesses, mostly corporations, are going after the American legal and justice system - including the "Supreme Court".
The American mainstream media, lazy, incompetent, unintelligent and much of the time cunningly colluding with many corporations and corporate interests, does a good job of constantly presenting the government "as the problem", while business is presented as "the solution". If it is not for the American Constitution, a Government document, that Libertarians and Tea Party Activists rant and rave about where would their "civil liberties and rights" be? In the toilet!
But American Right-wing populist movements have never been known for their "consistency, truthfulness, reaslism, intelligence or honesty". The only way you can believe in Newt Gingrich, a preachy pontificating moralizing hypocrite, is not only by "avoiding the truth and the obvious contradictions between what he says and what he does", but "by suspending basic intelligence, self awareness, social awareness, connection to valid and verifiable facts and...sanity itself".
You have to believe, in an absurd manner, that it is "not okay" for government to regulate, not even influence, food and drug industries that can directly affect your health, welfare and life itself, but it is for that same government, run uusally by a whole bunch of conservative White men, to regulate women's bodies - more specifically their uterus. Do you see the contradiction in this belief?
American men in power, in an effort to make sure that their privelege and authority are protected and continuously enhanced, would like to see their taxes go down, as they present themselves as "job creators and jolly investors". But they would not mind taxes going up for the poor, the working class and the middle class. Should not, in a fair reliable secure upwardly mobile system, the working and the middle class not get a shot at "wealth and success"? So, why is it okay for the taxes of the rich to go down, but the non-rich, who are already struggling, see their taxes and costs go up? In a real capitalistic system, free from cronyism, should a woman of color, who struggled for twenty years (sacrificing, struggling, playing by the rules, educating herself and avoiding problems) not get a shot at "upward mobility and wealth"? Or is that only meant for "White people and men"? Do you see the Conservative hypocrisy on this matter?
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