2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The original sin of America had its roots firmly founded in the love of money, loving money more than human beings, and teaching their children to think of blacks as less than human so as to relegate them to the status of property, all in the name of exploiting them for profit. The 'billionaires' of their day made their wealth by using racism as a tool to exploit workers, and to write laws to make sure racism thrived in America long after literal slavery became illegal.
As to cheaper labor? A lot of 'American made' products are made by prisoners these days, for far less than minimum wage. Mass incarceration is just another modern day form of slavery, and is the labor pool they prefer. Closed borders? Immigrants expect higher wages when they get to America. Far better to leave the borders closed and simply ship the factories overseas, as they've been doing for decades.
Your arguments are as shoddy and wrong-minded as your logic.