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byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
This race to the bottom is going to result in 25 to 30% unemployment. Once you get to those numbers it's only a matter of time before wars start. The threat of nuclear annihilation can only do so much. Sooner or later a religious nut job will convince people that God will protect them.
Before that the police will collapse and you're going to have bandits. There are 400k cops in America. When the economy collapses you can bet there won't be money to keep 400k cops. Even if there was they can't protect you
bybackslashdot ( 95548 ) writes:
Long before unemployment gets to 30% .. pariah groups will be identified and blamed. It depends on who is in power at the time of the unemployment increase what the pariah group will be. If it's democrats, the pariah group will be the "wealthy" .. if it's republicans .. the pariah group will be minorities. It all depends on whether the narrative is sold eloquently, with cherry-picked data and incidents.
Note .. the actual cause of the unemployment rate won't matter. It will only serve as a case to implement
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
ICE actually has a ways to go. Some historical US deportations (and remember the population was smaller then):
1930s (Great Depression): A period of mass "repatriations" saw an estimated 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—including many U.S. citizens—rounded up and deported or pressured to leave voluntarily. These were often informal raids and not all were official deportations.
1954: Operation Wetback resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of individuals, though historians estimate the number was closer to 300,000.
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