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>>tysone+(OP)
Wage growth would help, but for some reason, these articles never even mention immigration. The scale of immigration both legal and illegal I believe has the greatest impact on the lowest sectors of society. The lack of discussion on the impact so many potential new workers is having on wage growth leads one to think they believe labor cost is the one thing immune to the law of supply and demand.

>>tosser+aH
The cost of one AGM-114 Hellfire missile is $100,000+. Most likely they will be used to blow up some random guy in the middle east for no reason.

The cost of a 1 liter water bag at a hospital is $500.

Walmart evaded $70+ billion dollars in tax. They made that money by keeping all their workforce on medicaid.

That's where you money is going to, not $6 an hour fruit pickers spending all their money in food.

>>partyc+dU
You say that as if those products are interchangeable. You cannot simply take those missiles away and buy 2000 water bags.

The US military, especially, is the largest job and training program anywhere in the world, including the military industrial complex (most of those military contracts, incidentally, do not just come with jobs, but with demands that those companies hire x0000 (3 or 4 zeros) in the states that have the highest poverty levels).

I'm not saying it's an ideal occupation (although, hey, Keynes seemed to like it when he was less on guard). So yes, I'd also much prefer them to be building better infrastructure. Or perhaps have a much cheaper postal service.

> That's where you money is going to, not $6 an hour fruit pickers spending all their money in food.

Perhaps. But the inability of the working poor to pick fruit at $15 an hour IS due to (mostly illegal) fruit pickers.