How many jobs were being produced each month in say the 1960s during recoveries?
How many undocumented people come into the USA every year these days?
How many documented people come into the USA every year?
What's their combined rate of workforce participation?
How many citizens are being added into the workforce every year? (population growth)
How many million U.S. citizens are unemployed?
How many are barely employed?
What's the unemployment rate of "blacks" vs. "whites"?
How many "professional" jobs are being exported or being filled with imported workers?
How much does the employing class (including major stock holders at Swift) like an unlimited supply of labor and does this unlimited supply in any way have the effect of lowering the wages of the workers who live within the political boundaries of the USA?
How much political mileage do the right-wing nationalist nuts get from calling for more policing/fence building of US borders?
I'm a little behind on my reading LBO, so sorry if these questions have been answered. Anyway, I think that Boddi may have been getting a raw deal here, a misread of his intentions. As I've said before on this list, I think the employing class of the USA has just the leaky immigration/police/political-economic impact mix set about right for itself now in terms of moving productivity gains into the profit vs. the wages column.
Best, Mike B)
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