• MEDIA: J.D. Vance: Ruling Class 'Actually Enjoys Plundering the Greates

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 22 12:23:35 2021
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see John Binder
    on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared Kushner's advice to
    downplay the National Question on the campaign trail against Joe
    Biden and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/14/exclusive-j-d-vance-ruling-class-actually-enjoys-plundering-the-greatest-country-in-the-world/>
    | On immigration, for instance, Vance said economic elites are
    | stripping investment from middle America and sending that money to
    | the coasts as a result of their desire for mass illegal and legal
    | immigration to drive down U.S. wages.
    |
    | Vance said:
    |
    || I was at a dinner in 2017, 2018 with a lot of corporate leaders.
    || I was sitting next to the CEO of one of the largest hotel chains in
    || the world. He said 'Look, President Trump's immigration policies are
    || forcing me to raise wages for my workers' and he was complaining
    || about this. And I said 'Okay, well explain this to me.' And he said
    || 'Look, in the past, if I wanted workers, I could just go across the
    || southern border and get a bunch of Central American foreigners to do
    || this job for poverty wages but now because I can't tap into those
    || people, I have to go to Americans and I have to give them higher
    || wages to do it.' And again, this guy was talking about this like it
    || was a bad thing but this is what the elites do with immigration is
    || they use it to undercut the wages of American workers. [Emphasis
    || added]
    ||
    || ...
    ||
    || The other problem is that it actually takes investment away from
    || our own communities. The whole way that our economy grows is by
    || investing long-term in the American worker and American
    || productivity. But if you can just get cheap people at poverty wages
    || anyway, you're not going to invest in your own communities, you're
    || not going to invest in your own country and that makes us poorer
    || over the long term. It's no surprise that maybe the biggest
    || competitor to the United States right now is China -- a very low
    || immigration society that has generated its economic gains by
    || investing in its own economy, not foreign workers. [Emphasis added]
    |
    | Vance also railed against President Joe Biden and the national
    | security establishment for their botched withdrawal of American
    | troops from Afghanistan after former President George W. Bush
    | launched the war in October 2001.

    Will Trump endorse candidates to the right of him on the issue
    of dispossession of Ohioans?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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