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> selling out my nation's industrial base. I cant take that seriously with a wide open border.

• lenerdenator 3y ago
  One brings labor into a country, the other evaporates the need for said labor. Also there are a lot of guys standing in processing centers waiting for their asylum claims to be processed who would take umbrage with your definition of "wide open border", but that's another discussion.
  • willcipriano 3y ago
    The low skill vulnerable labor you bring into the country evaporates the need for the higher paid labor you already have.
    • lenerdenator 3y ago
      You're intentionally misleading away from the point: the United States does not benefit from becoming wholly dependent on China for industrial goods. I don't care what some Wall Street exec or Austrian School "scholar" tells you. Sure, some shareholders might - and they're the same ones who also benefit from screwing migrant laborers - but you're not one of these captains of industry who can jet off to their bunker in New Zealand when shit hits the fan.
      • willcipriano 3y ago
        > becoming wholly dependent on China Becoming? Like that isn't already the case? This is a special purpose carve out to reward a voting block. The rest of us get globalism.