basically say goodbye to the agricultural industry, hospitality, construction, and medical care. i read recently — and i don't remember where — that if you deported as many people as Trump wants it would produce a GDP hit as bad as the one experienced during the Great Recession
Can you imagine how much leverage that would give unions?
that feels like a very optimistic view of the gdp in that scenario
Slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants would collapse. All those Texas ranchers wouldn’t know what to do with their cattle.
I hate we have to assign financial amounts to argue against something that is literally genocide
What’s wild about this is he’s still the favorite of the billionaire class. They think he’s gonna cut their taxes, deregulate crypto,…and basically drop all his other promises—which they know would tank the economy.
Aaaaaaaand...that's the goal. We need to do a better job of training our brains to make that turn. All the shit you think are the reasons they shouldn't be doing the things they're doing are, in fact, the reasons they are doing them.
ALT: a man is talking to another man and saying chaos is a ladder
You could almost call it a Great Leap Forward
It would definitely be worse than 2009, deporting that many people would wreck the economy for a long time, the US might never fully recover from something like that
🎯 "Russian cities and regions whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of deaths and displacement in the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages ever since." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Areas of Russia whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages in the decades since, according to a new analysis.
Plot twist: we will make the captured Mexicans BUILD THE WALL checkmate libtards!!