When I compared the present system to indentured servitude, I didn't literally mean they were chained into slave quarters and not allowed to leave for a period of years. Don't be so pedantic.Peeps wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Who is "we" here? If you think imported peasant laborers are very free to do those things, you are delusional.
are they going to switch from pickinig fields to running a scrum of a system upgrade? no. if they want to leave a job working the fields and do grunt work in construction they are most certainly free to do so
They are brought here under the agreement that they are to be paid peasant wages, often under the table, and that they are to keep their heads down, stay out of the way, and not receive benefits, to the great benefit of their employers, both conservative and liberal, and the detriment of the American working class. They may be free to move laterally under that system, but I wouldn't call that freedom.
And to spike's nonsense post: making jobs only available to working class American citizens, with their protections and political power - which will necessitate increasing wages/labor costs as well as rebuilding the hollowed out middle class and industrial base - is not indentured servitude.
And before anyone says anything, making them all citizens (or practically making the entire world citizens of the US) is a terrible solution that ignores all sorts of realities.
Shit, even the commies understood this relationship between the elites and foreign labor. Their internationalism and blank-slateism was what was idiotic.
