I agree he's a troll. But Cécile Stelzer-Johnson is wrong about the effect of importation of foreign labor on wages. Importing foreign labor is big biz' way of depressing wages, and it has been thus for at least 200 years.
In 1980, meat packers were black, and they earned decent middle class wages thanks to decades of organizing. By that decades end, meat packers were immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions for barely above minimum wage. The same changes occurred at roughly the same time in many of the unskilled job categories at roughly the same time. Roy Beck lays out the details in his book, Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias and Depression of Black Wealth. He gives the lie to the notion that there are jobs American workers won't do.
In his reporting, Beck interviewed laid off American poultry workers, who had been replaced by immigrants. Would they take back their old jobs if offered, he asked them. No, they told him. On the wages the poultry plant was now paying, they'd have to live in their cars, or many to a room.
Just so you know, I consider Biden the best president of my lifetime, which began in the first summer of the Eisenhower Administration. I come from a Democratic family on both sides. On my mother's side, my great uncle, Phillip Hornbein, a union lawyer on labor's side, and who also went after the Ku Klux Klan, was de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for the first half of the last century, and he gave the speech at the '32 convention recommending an end to Prohibition.
And I strongly recommend Airlift.fund as a place to donate to replace GOPers with Democrats this election. Robert Hubbell (who has a substack where he pushes hard for our cause) had recommended them, and my best political source looked at their website and told me they looked terrific.
The beginning of the end in the US was the election of Reagan. I understood then the political landscape. I knew then the direction the country would go. The feckless and inept Democrats lost their bearings and fell in with wealthy sponsors. They thought they had to give in because they realized how much money poured into the Republican Party.
David, for going on 40+ years I completely get what is going on with politics in America. What amazes me to this day is how stupid and/or ignorant the vast majority (north of 90% of the population) are to what is happening in this country. HCR's Substack readers are a good example.
HCR is nothing short of brilliance Each letter delivers a path to restoring this country to a place the Founding Fathers so profoundly defined.
Here is a great example of HCR's brilliance: "But they were wrong to think Roosevelt did not intend to reduce the power of big business. In early January 1902, Minnesota sued to stop the Northern Securities Company from organizing on the grounds that such a combination violated Minnesota law. While the Supreme Court dithered over whether or not it could rule on the case, the Roosevelt administration put the federal government out in front of the issue. In February, Roosevelt’s attorney general told newspapers that the administration believed the formation of the Northern Securities Company violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act and that he would be filing a suit to keep it from organizing."
Democrats laud BIden, but truly what has he done to defend democracy, the rule of law and the Constitution??? The answer is nothing!
I don't agree with your last two sentences, but I agree with the rest of what you say beginning with Reagan--curse the day he was elected. If you want to try to convince me on Biden, I'll listen and think. We can take it offline where you can reach me at supernova1@aol.com.
Please, do not feed the troll.
Yes he's a troll, but Cécile Stelzer-Johnson - you have said it so well.
I agree he's a troll. But Cécile Stelzer-Johnson is wrong about the effect of importation of foreign labor on wages. Importing foreign labor is big biz' way of depressing wages, and it has been thus for at least 200 years.
In 1980, meat packers were black, and they earned decent middle class wages thanks to decades of organizing. By that decades end, meat packers were immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions for barely above minimum wage. The same changes occurred at roughly the same time in many of the unskilled job categories at roughly the same time. Roy Beck lays out the details in his book, Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias and Depression of Black Wealth. He gives the lie to the notion that there are jobs American workers won't do.
In his reporting, Beck interviewed laid off American poultry workers, who had been replaced by immigrants. Would they take back their old jobs if offered, he asked them. No, they told him. On the wages the poultry plant was now paying, they'd have to live in their cars, or many to a room.
Just so you know, I consider Biden the best president of my lifetime, which began in the first summer of the Eisenhower Administration. I come from a Democratic family on both sides. On my mother's side, my great uncle, Phillip Hornbein, a union lawyer on labor's side, and who also went after the Ku Klux Klan, was de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for the first half of the last century, and he gave the speech at the '32 convention recommending an end to Prohibition.
And I strongly recommend Airlift.fund as a place to donate to replace GOPers with Democrats this election. Robert Hubbell (who has a substack where he pushes hard for our cause) had recommended them, and my best political source looked at their website and told me they looked terrific.
The beginning of the end in the US was the election of Reagan. I understood then the political landscape. I knew then the direction the country would go. The feckless and inept Democrats lost their bearings and fell in with wealthy sponsors. They thought they had to give in because they realized how much money poured into the Republican Party.
David, for going on 40+ years I completely get what is going on with politics in America. What amazes me to this day is how stupid and/or ignorant the vast majority (north of 90% of the population) are to what is happening in this country. HCR's Substack readers are a good example.
HCR is nothing short of brilliance Each letter delivers a path to restoring this country to a place the Founding Fathers so profoundly defined.
Here is a great example of HCR's brilliance: "But they were wrong to think Roosevelt did not intend to reduce the power of big business. In early January 1902, Minnesota sued to stop the Northern Securities Company from organizing on the grounds that such a combination violated Minnesota law. While the Supreme Court dithered over whether or not it could rule on the case, the Roosevelt administration put the federal government out in front of the issue. In February, Roosevelt’s attorney general told newspapers that the administration believed the formation of the Northern Securities Company violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act and that he would be filing a suit to keep it from organizing."
Democrats laud BIden, but truly what has he done to defend democracy, the rule of law and the Constitution??? The answer is nothing!
I don't agree with your last two sentences, but I agree with the rest of what you say beginning with Reagan--curse the day he was elected. If you want to try to convince me on Biden, I'll listen and think. We can take it offline where you can reach me at supernova1@aol.com.
Sharon, I agree. Always always ignore him!
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