We've been seeing a sell off in the market the last couple of weeks as it becomes apparent that the dontard is actually pursuing trade policies that will hurt the economy.
Of course his immigration policies also are bad for the economy because right or wrong, undocumented immigrants make us more competitive in many areas.
I believe his team of so-called economic advisers argue that we need to replace the people coming here and working for very low wages with people getting public assistance. Economically it seems to make sense since you turn someone using taxes to someone paying taxes.
The issues with this are pretty clear, since that strategy attempts to make people who either can't work or won't work into workers.
The other problem is the people aren't where the jobs might be.
If you accept the premise, you have to transport a lot of single mothers to the migrant camps where our undocumented work all day harvesting crops.
Not likely, or even probably possible.
Creating useful opportunities for these folks with training could work to a certain extent, but the current positions of the dontard are shaped by radical proponents of the sink or swim scenario.
Cut off their aid and food stamps unless they can prove they are working and drug free.
The fact that there are no jobs to be had in many cases, at least ones they qualify for, or that the real victims in many cases will be the children, is simply "one of the breaks".
Instead of providing education and opportunities for our vulnerable poor, we can turn them into a permanent underclass with all the problems they already have, plus some more.
The saddest thing is that the abusers of the system will figure our how to keep abusing it while the neediest will suffer.
Those are "the breaks"/
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