Friday, June 22, 2007

Nativist vs Neoslaveholders on the Guest Worker Program

I'm wondered if it is possible to make Nativist and Neoslaveholders both happy. The problem is the Nativist don't want to pay for the healthcare for the Neoslaves and compete with them, arguing that Neoslaves drive down wages for lower class Nativist. The upper class Neoslaveholders argue that Neoslaves do jobs Americans don't want, saying that they can't get Americans to do hard manual labor such as cleaning and working on plantations for low wages.

I've been pondering if there is a way for Nativist and Neoslaveholders to get along. If the Federal Government enforced border law and allowed the States to determine their own immigration needs then maybe these two very opposing groups could make peace. The Guest Workers would be forced to wear RFID tags and the States would decide if they are welcome to compete with the American workforce for jobs in their state or live there. The States hosting the Guest Workers would have to pay fines for any problems Guest Workers cause in other States.

The United States is already decided to use RFID tags on domesticated animals to track them!

Why the comparison to slavery
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Wright argues that slave-based commerce was central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.


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