(VIDEO) CNN’s Navarro Sounds Off Like an 18th Century Slave Trader

Not missing many meals.

You can overwork them all you want, you can underpay all you want. Just as long as Ana Navarro gets cheap groceries…

One doesn’t have to actively been involved in the slave trade to understand the basic economics of slavery. By the way, the worth of an individual slave was much different between a slave owner and the slave trader.

Like everything else involved with economics, it all comes down to supply and demand.

Be it a basket of strawberries; a pound of ground beef; or even a shipload of slaves, get as much of the cargo to market while it’s still a valuable commodity. After all, no one’s going to pay for rotten strawberries, putrid beef, or dead slaves.

To a slave owner, a slave was a valuable investment. To a slave trader, a slave was a degradable product.

A crash of RINOs.

Getting into the specifics, the University of Houston notes that depending upon the year, slave traders saw anywhere between 10 to 25 percent of their cargo dying in transit to North America, South America or the Caribbean.

One doesn’t need a Ph.D in economics to figure out that the cost of dead slaves was factored into the cost of those who survived the crossing. The still living slave cargo just became a lot more valuable to the slave buyer.

You can bet the newly purchased slaves just saw their price (and value) increase a ton.

You might even say that the slaves were made an integral part of America’s society and economy. Keep that in mind, it’ll come up again in a few paragraphs.

I just can’t help but get the impression from talking head Ana Navarro (CNN, The View) that she sounds an awful lot like someone deeply invested in the slave trade of a few hundred years ago attempting to justify her line of work.

As seen in the video below, Navarro decries the notion of deporting illegal aliens. But in the same breath, defends keeping the same illegals working in “God-awful” conditions.

In part, here’s some of what this alleged conservative had to say (emphasis mine);

“We’re going to find that milk gets a lot higher, because I don’t know if any of you have ever been on a dairy farm. It is God-awful work. We’re going to see vegetables and groceries get higher.”

“Undocumented immigrants are an integral part of our society and our economy.“

Substitute the words “undocumented immigrant” with “slave.” You get the picture.

Didn’t we make this illegal over a century-and-a-half ago?

Other than legalizing these millions of illegals (essentially, rewarding criminal behavior), Navarro attempts to convince the American people that even though illegals work in some truly “God-awful” circumstances, they are a necessary evil.

Folks, that’s called “gas lighting.”

For a moment of common sense, Abigail Johnson of TownHall.com opines correctly (emphasis mine);

Replacing illegal immigrants with American labor may make prices increase, but businesses that employ illegal immigrants can exploit their employees, by paying them less than minimum wage and by violating labor laws. This allowance can create employment systems that become inescapable for undocumented employees who often have no legal or financial recourse. Navarro’s argument does not address this.

Just me, but it’s fairly obvious that Navarro and the rest of the TDS Gestapo want to create a permanent class of workers in this country that really isn’t much different from the institution of slavery, pre-13th Amendment.