Treason Season??

[Rajvik]

I am going to try and take these in order.
Norgarth: yes, as have i, maybe I didn't word the statement concisely enough and maybe I should have put the physical break of a line between those points. The I WANT mentality exists across all barriers save one, the willingness to work for it.

Epsilon: I don't hate capitalism, what I PREFER is that companies hire local labor at reasonable wages so that their local communities are reinvested in instead of the gin owners being able to buy a new pickup truck for themselves and the wife a new Mercedes sedan every season.

Rob: the wall will at best decrease the available labor pool forcing employers to hire more locals. The price of cotton will go up by weight as a result, but not an unreasonable amount.

Hazard, the cost of using US born workers would be acceptable to the paying public because the money would be going back into local economies.

The use of prisoners for labor is tightly constrained depending on what state you are in and mostly limited to roadside and forestry work. The old "making license plates" trope was something from the 40s and 50s and prisoners are not allowed into public businesses as they are required to be under constant supervision.

Edit:
And sometimes the answer to a complex problem Silverfang is to realize that it isn't as complex as you want to think they are. Simple answers are best because they are easy to keep to