Hillary Clinton revealed her true self yesterday. She advocated helping the rich to get wealthier while keeping the poor from success. For those of you who missed it, Mrs. Clinton spoke to a gathering of illegal immigrants and came out in favor of full and immediate citizenship for all those here illegally. Hillary said that as president, she would go around Congress and grant citizenship by executive order if need be. She also said that families of those already here illegally ought to be admitted without delay to the USA so that they too could become citizens. This is the clearest possible course to making sure that wages on the low end of the income spectrum stay low. It is also a way for Hillary to guarantee her super-rich supporters that they will have a big pool of low cost labors from which to choose in running their enterprises.
Not many people look at the true reality of illegal immigration. The fact is that the avalanche of illegals entering this country over the last years is the single most important reason why wages and incomes have been stagnant for most people. For the poor like those in Baltimore who have been rioting, there is no way to get a better paying job because there are always illegals who are ready to take most jobs for extremely low wages paid "off the books". Why pay a sales clerk $12.00 per hour plus benefits and employer's taxes when one can pay an illegal $6 or $7 per hour with no benefits or employer's tax costs? Why would a wealthy construction contractor pay $20 per hour for American laborers when there are illegals who will work off the books in the same job for $9 per hour? Think of the effect that this flood of low cost labor has on the poor in this country. Students who used to be able to get summer jobs in construction so that they could earn cash to help pay for their educations just cannot find those jobs anymore. People who used to work as waiters or busboys to pay the bills can't compete with the willingness of the illegals to work at crazy low wages. Even at businesses that don't hire illegals, there are a flood of available workers who compete for jobs and keep wages down. The effect of all this is that the wealthy who own the businesses get to keep their labor costs very low by hiring illegals. These wealthy people make more money by exploiting the illegals. Meanwhile the American citizens at the low end of the income ladder keep getting squeezed tighter and tighter while the rich get richer. But this is the system that Hillary Clinton has now endorsed.
Make no mistake about it. Hillary may couch her statements in terms of "helping" the illegals, but the reality is very different. All those billionaires and millionaires who gave fortunes to the Clinton Foundation or who paid millions to hear some short speech by Bill or Hillary are now getting their money's worth from the Clinton machine. Hillary is basically saying that she wants to protect the profits of the wealthy at the expense of poor Americans.
Not many people look at the true reality of illegal immigration. The fact is that the avalanche of illegals entering this country over the last years is the single most important reason why wages and incomes have been stagnant for most people. For the poor like those in Baltimore who have been rioting, there is no way to get a better paying job because there are always illegals who are ready to take most jobs for extremely low wages paid "off the books". Why pay a sales clerk $12.00 per hour plus benefits and employer's taxes when one can pay an illegal $6 or $7 per hour with no benefits or employer's tax costs? Why would a wealthy construction contractor pay $20 per hour for American laborers when there are illegals who will work off the books in the same job for $9 per hour? Think of the effect that this flood of low cost labor has on the poor in this country. Students who used to be able to get summer jobs in construction so that they could earn cash to help pay for their educations just cannot find those jobs anymore. People who used to work as waiters or busboys to pay the bills can't compete with the willingness of the illegals to work at crazy low wages. Even at businesses that don't hire illegals, there are a flood of available workers who compete for jobs and keep wages down. The effect of all this is that the wealthy who own the businesses get to keep their labor costs very low by hiring illegals. These wealthy people make more money by exploiting the illegals. Meanwhile the American citizens at the low end of the income ladder keep getting squeezed tighter and tighter while the rich get richer. But this is the system that Hillary Clinton has now endorsed.
Make no mistake about it. Hillary may couch her statements in terms of "helping" the illegals, but the reality is very different. All those billionaires and millionaires who gave fortunes to the Clinton Foundation or who paid millions to hear some short speech by Bill or Hillary are now getting their money's worth from the Clinton machine. Hillary is basically saying that she wants to protect the profits of the wealthy at the expense of poor Americans.
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