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The American dream has been history for quite some time. Minimum-wage jobs are nothing more than slave ownership.
The days of working at a gas station, then a few years later owning that business and putting up another across the street, are long gone.
Only a handful of college football players ever get that coveted high-salary spot in professional football. Of the 4 million-plus unvetted, undocumented people entering our country, only a handful of lucky ones will ever make it past poverty. They will remain slaves to the minimum wage, and the taxpayers will need to fund them through Medicaid and welfare.
Almost none of them crossing has a chance of independent prosperity, but they appear not to want to stop the slave trade business.
