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Mefistofeles
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:09 PM Original message |
Despite economy, Americans don't want farm work |
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rfranklin
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. $10.25 is not a living wage...unless you are living in... |
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dkf
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yet it exceeds the minimum wage that I'm sure many people are paid at. |
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Mefistofeles
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Mon Sep-27-10 07:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
22. If you are "sure" the salary is minium wage, then you must have a link |
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dkf
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Mon Sep-27-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Federal minimum is $7.25 |
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Nikia
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Mon Sep-27-10 08:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Part of the problem is that few people live around there |
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TBF
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Tue Sep-28-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
37. So that makes it a living wage? Because others are paid less? |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Yep. And the fact that so many liberals engage in this rhetoric is disgusting. |
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JDPriestly
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Mon Sep-27-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. I don't think that is the problem. My dad worked at this kind of |
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Downwinder
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Mon Sep-27-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I did that work as a summer High School job. Sure makes you appreciate |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Mon Sep-27-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. That isn't the biggest problem either. The problem is it's a temp work. |
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dkf
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. So Americans are lazy then? |
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Mefistofeles
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Mon Sep-27-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
21. American and legal residents do not want farm jobs |
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Greyhound
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. Imagine that, AP re-writing one of the longest standing pervasive lies of the whole |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. + 100000 |
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Tippy
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't believe this to be true. It may be more true in CA, |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The way people here were gushing over his performance was sickening |
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Still Blue in PDX
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Mon Sep-27-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. It's not laziness, it's wanting to be paid for work performed. |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 04:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. He didn't breathe a word of criticism of the employers |
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Still Blue in PDX
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Mon Sep-27-10 10:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. I guess I (and a lot of others) misunderstood his point, then. nt |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Show me where he did. |
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Tippy
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Farms moving to Mexico? |
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Hello_Kitty
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Tue Sep-28-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Colbert testified that a million and a half acres have moved to Mexico. |
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Javaman
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #18 |
31. While that is true, you could say that the following comment he made |
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Tippy
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:37 AM Response to Reply #18 |
33. Not suprising he is after all a republican,,,n/t |
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Confusious
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Tue Sep-28-10 04:13 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. How do you figure that? |
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Tippy
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Tue Sep-28-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. He has to be a Republican |
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Still Blue in PDX
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Wed Sep-29-10 05:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
46. I believe he has said he is an Independent. |
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JDPriestly
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Mon Sep-27-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. I thought Colbert was great in front of Congress. |
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Hello_Kitty
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Mon Sep-27-10 04:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Hypocrisy is a rich guy pitting unemployed Americans against poor immigrants. |
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JDPriestly
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Mon Sep-27-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I thought he was just trying to get higher wages and change the |
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RUMMYisFROSTED
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Tue Sep-28-10 08:25 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. He was. |
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bergie321
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Mon Sep-27-10 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Have they tried |
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Rincewind
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Mon Sep-27-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Hell no, |
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Mon Sep-27-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. A lot of people in the Pacific Northwest remember when berry picking |
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Stumbler
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Mon Sep-27-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Exactly |
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Art_from_Ark
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Mon Sep-27-10 08:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. That reminds me of the time I picked blueberries for $1.25/bucket in 1982 |
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Javaman
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. it's the willful lowering of our standard of living that the republicans are after... |
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Confusious
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Tue Sep-28-10 04:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
39. kennedy |
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Javaman
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Tue Sep-28-10 09:08 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Reagan... |
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Luciferous
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Mon Sep-27-10 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. Maybe if they paid a living wage people would be willing to do it. |
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Synicus Maximus
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Mon Sep-27-10 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
27. I did farm work until I went to college. Of course I wasn't paid but it |
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MARALE
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
35. Some of the issue is because immigrants have the jobs |
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joeglow3
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Tue Sep-28-10 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
42. Correction: Americans don't want farm jobs at SHIT wages due to flooded labor pool. |
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MellowDem
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Tue Sep-28-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
43. It is good to point out that LEGAL immigrants.... |
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riderinthestorm
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
44. I am an organic farmer. I hire people to help me, primarily Mexicans. |
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BreweryYardRat
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Tue Sep-28-10 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
45. Most people aren't going to move for $10 an hour, because... |
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Terry in Austin
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Wed Sep-29-10 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
47. A living wage is at least $12.00 an hour |
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