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When is it OK to blame government for your own failure as a human being?

PIPEWRENCH said:
The reason our government has not stopped this is because the same people funding our candidates are the ones benefiting from the slave labor. Both parties.
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Exactly!
PIPEWRENCH said:
That is one reason Trump is not getting the support from the republican party. The rich and powerful have a real problem with Trump not under their control and Hillary so corrupt they are having trouble keeping her out of jail. They will be investigating her for the rest of her life.
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Trump is one of the rich and powerful. Whether he could actually fix the situation is pretty unclear. He could wind up making it worse.

Hillary is not as corrupt as she has been painted to be by her political opponents. She isn't the best choice by a long shot, but she is less scary than Donald Trump.

IMO, that is. Some people would rather trust the con man. What a choice!

PIPEWRENCH said:
The rich are the ones benefiting from it. They are their yard men, house cleaners, and servants. I did plumbing work for these people. I would come in and fix what they did wrong and listen to these wealthy people bitch about having to pay me a livable wage. I have lost jobs to contractors that hired them to work for as little as $20. a day. I could not afford to pay a helper $15.00 an hours plus taxes and insurances and compete against slave labor. Anyone telling you these people are not driving down wages has no clue. I have watched first hand for over 35 year. My only recourse was to turn them in to the plumbing inspectors if I had time. The sad part is if they did not go to work they would literally starve. This is when the crime would happen.
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Yes, exactly, and the wealthy aren't going to allow their cheap labor pool to end without a fight.

PIPEWRENCH said:
They are not going to starve to death when there are houses everywhere to be robbed. So when I put them out of work I now put my home at risk.
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They aren't going to starve as long as there are jobs for them to do, and there are lots of willing employers to keep them busy. Are they being exploited? You bet. Are they still better off than they would be in their own countries? Seems that way, yes. Is building a wall going to keep them out? Hell, no. The way to keep them out is to fine the employers, but those employers have a lot of political clout. That's why neither party has done squat about illegal labor since the Eisenhower administration.
 
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