What we have now in the United States is an illegal, out-of-control, chaotic, disorganized mess. It’s a mess because the Washington swamp wants it that way.
CFP: The antebellum South saw a great rise in the agriculture industry. This profitable commerce needed a labor force for working the fields, cooking and serving the meals, and for general labor. Slaves from Africa bore most of the burden, but slaves from countries like Ireland were also used. Irish slaves came to America and the West Indies as early as 1625 when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. It is estimated that approximately 100,000 Irish men, women, and children were transported to the colonies as slaves.
Not to be called racist, Britain, in the 17th and 18th centuries, was an equal opportunity exploiter of human flesh, having sold over 600,000 Irish, Scottish, and Catholics into slavery. In early America, slavery was not a race issue, it was primarily a financial one. It was not until well into the 19th century, when the fusion of race, slavery, politics, and with the beginning of the ascension of the former white slaves, that people of African origin began to be known as Negros.
Slavery in America was not unique to this continent. It was almost universal at the time and goes as far back as 3,500 B.C. It was a way to get a cheap and plentiful labor force. It is only in recent human history that slavery has become totally illegal, at least on the books.
While liberals like to castigate Americans as inventing racism and human servitude, they fail to mention that slavery in early America is not American history at all, it is English history. Before 1776, there was no United States or United States law. It was a British colony under British law. In 1772, the Emancipation Act freed slaves in England, but with no thanks to Britain, it did not include its colonies.
The United States began with the idea that slavery would soon have to end. Ben Franklin was active in the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery and became its president in 1787. It was relatively early in the history of the United States that slavery was made illegal, and enforced in blood.
Today, the aristocrats of industry, the rich Hollywood types, the technocrats of Silicon Valley, demand the same advantages as the plantation owners of the 19th century…inexpensive labor…labor to work the fields, toil in their factories, clean their mansions, cut their lawns, cook their meals, or even fill their date books. These same people that donate millions to political parties expect something in return. For many, it is an open border…a plentiful supply of inexpensive labor.
For many Republicans, labor costs have been cut to the bone, or as President Bush said, “They do what Americans won’t do.” What he means is, Americans can’t live on those wages, but illegal immigrants can and will.
Democrats also want the cheap labor, but they are smart enough to see a new voting bloc in their future should they be successful in getting amnesty passed. If you can’t convince voters, get new ones. more
Unless you are born rich or inherit a lot of money, you are going to be a kind of a slave to something or somebody, just to be able to live on the Earth. That’s assuming you have the gumption to not want to be on the dole. I was a wage slave for nearly fifty years, until I finally purchased my freedom with the help of Social Security and a company pension plan. And aging, of course – let’s not forget that. De Massas don’t want de darkies (or in my case, de honkies) when dey gets too old to pick de crops. Anyway, I was one of the luckier ones,
but still a slave nonetheless.
We all work for somebody – some of us just have more options than others.
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We are all a slave to something, the smart ones pick who.
Yeah but to be honest, how hard is work these days compared to even 50 years ago……we have a machine for everything. I lived in Vidalia, Ga for a brief period and the swarm of laborers that came thru every season to plant and harvest onions was incredible. Said there was never going to be a machine that can pick a sweet onion because they bruise. That was 20 years ago. We now have that machine.
Working fast food, driving a truck, even working in an office is not slavery. It is soul crushing at times but not all that hard.
There is, however, a difference between work and Plantation Politics.
I remember watching Shark Tank and everyone of those Rich turds were always saying how they needed to have whatever they were talking of manufactured in China to bring the product price down to squeeze more profit for their investment.
I have to kiss my slaves ass to get something done, and they sort of know I’m over a barrel because there is such a shortage of replacement slaves, and so many that could be possible new slaves are chemically dependent slaves, themselves.
When you’re young you want it all, but as you age you realize how difficult things can be and you settle for a certain amount of security. If you can reach a place where you’re not constantly stressing about making this payment or that and keep your urges for the next shiny object in check, life can be OK.
The whole idea is that the elites cannot stand an uppity middle class who don’t need them or their hand outs.
There’s an “interesting” theme running through many of these comments. Like the professional pols’ claim that “It’s not a ‘bribe’, unless it says ‘bribe’ on the envelope”, many of the poster’s here prey so hard at the Church of Capitalism that the claim “It’s not ‘slavery’, if you’re forced to live in the company town, because ‘slavery’ is illegal” is not seen as a shibboleth.
And just how do you make your way in life?
Tom says driving a truck is not that hard. I guess he never unloaded a 57 ft trailer of cartons, by hand , on a 102 degree day with 90% humidity. Pretty much like picking onions only in a furnace.
Liberty and self-reliance are the ideal, but today’s regulations, environmental et al, won’t allow you to live independently without breaking the law.
And with all the surveilance, life as a runaway slave won’t even work.
Ever try digging potatoes out of the frozen ground with your hands?