MEDIA: Home Depot's $5.5 Billion Bet on the End of Cheap Labor

Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see John Carney
on whether Bernie Marcus advised Casey and Ron DeSantis to seize
Donald Trump's right flank on the National Question after Marcus
failed to depose Jared Kushner from Kushner's position as consigliere
in the Trump-Biden campaign:
<URL:https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/06/30/breitbart-business-digest-home-depots-5-5-billion-bet-on-the-end-of-cheap-labor/>
| For decades, American businesses operated on the assumption that
| low-skilled labor was essentially limitless. If you couldn't find
| enough workers, you lobbied for more immigration or outsourced the
| work abroad. That era is ending. Immigration has fallen dramatically
| under President Trump's second term, and popular opposition to mass
| immigration is rising across the developed world. As Bloomberg's
| Adrian Wooldridge wrote last week, "The golden age for employers is
| coming to an end."

What will be the foreign born population in Howard Lutnick's Census.GOV
headcounts and share of the American labor market in Lori Chavez-
DeRemer's DoL.GOV surveys and how does Susie Wiles recommend Trump's
endorsed successor (Peter Thiel's VP JD Vance? Norm Braman's Little
Marco Rubio? another GOP.COM striver with a billionaire backer) sell
the hard facts on the ground to those legacy American proles who thought
they voted against their dispossession in 2024?

John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"That is the show this week. As with so many other things, Trump is
not the man with a plan, but a man with a hammer. He breaks the old
stuff, often by his mere existence, but this opens the way for new
stuff. He has broken the political order in Washington and now that
he has real power, he is breaking the order abroad. He is the Mule,
the destroyer of worlds, bringing the end of empire." - The Z Man
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