first, there's no welfare to take advantage of and all jobs that get filled by aliens help create more jobs. at the time the US became industrialized was when more business regulations ad tariffs on the southern industries were beginning to be put into place which made starting a business harder, growing business slower and government more powerful. In a more free market, there's more competition which means less chances of monopolies and when a monopoly does happen, it's gone the moment it forms because it forms due to lack of competition with that business model and monopolies are signals of success therefore more startups use that business model which means people no longer have to rely on that monopoly's power. So a bonus is not that people are forced to rely on themselves but it also encourages start-ups and prevents monopolies. Most recessions in history were caused by socialist policies including the great recession which governments gave bailouts to banks, and if you understand economics, you'd know that the more a government gives a business, the more the government can control it, the more they can control it, the more control they can get.
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Illegal immigration would stop if we actually enforced the laws already on the books.
P.S. If you think that illegals (a large majority of them) aren't sponging off of welfare, I have a bridge to sell you.
in a free market, there are no welfare systems, you can't be a welfare freeloader if there is no welfare
People rushed here when there WASN'T a welfare state to support them.
Back then we were industrializing rapidly and had major construction projects going in some part of the nation in succession for decades. There were Lots of Jobs in Mills, Shipping, factories, Shipyards, etc. With a lot being Highly dangerous with appallingly high casualty rates. Which meant Jobs opened again sometimes as soon as they filled.
Now. There are fewer jobs in those industries as more and more of the dangerous work is automated. We were transitioning to a service based economy for a decade but have stalled out now in the past few years as we try to decide which way we want to go.
Back towards a more labor intensive but increasingly automated manufacturing base or keep on the Service Economy path.
The service economy can only function within an economy that is productive. If everyone is simply providing a service, then no one is producing anything new. Production has been shipped overseas and we instantly saw how suicidal that was when China decided to confiscate anything they desired for themselves.
To have a production economy is to be independent.