Democratic Party Set to Pursue Mutually Exclusive Policy Priorities in 2014: Reducing Income Inequality and Maximizing Immigration


“Would Americans kill pigs for $18 an hour? Hell, yes, they would. There would be a line from Sioux City to Dubuque for those jobs. But Big Meat’s defeat of Big Labor means it can now negotiate the lowest possible wages with the most desperate workers: usually Mexican immigrants who are willing to endure dangerous conditions for what would be considered a huge pile of money in their home country. Slaughterhouses hire immigrants not because they’re the only workers willing to kill and cut apart pigs, but because they’re the only workers willing to kill and cut apart pigs for low wages, in unsafe conditions.”Whether they choose to acknowledge it or not, the Democrats will have to choose between these two policy objectives. Doing both is impossible.
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