Without the machines, the factories, or the skilled people to run them, the U.S. economy is hollowed out. The ability to produce real things on its own soil once the foundation of its power is gone, sold off piece by piece.
What remains is a service economy built on debt, finance, and consumer consumption that can’t sustain itself .

Then this idiot wants to round up and deport all of the illegal workers that are willing to work for pennies on the dollar, the ones that keep the very core of the country barely even functioning. Who else is gonna do those jobs? Those people have a movement and they call it please take our jobs The title alone says enough. Nobody is gonna go there and take those jobs. And without them, our entire. Government backed and supported agricultural system completely fails and we all starve.
We cannot afford to compete. We can't afford to compete with China. Free child slave labor. We can't afford to compete with Mexico or anyone else. Our produce would result in lettuce being $15 a head and a bag of apples. You would have to get a third mortgage. It's all subsidized and those subsidies were supposed to go to mom and pop farms, but instead they went to mega corporations who didn't even need the handout. But that's what happens when you let corporations literally write the laws and walk them into the lobbyists handcuffed to the wrist with all the papers pre signed. All they need is to rubber stamp it and boom it's done.