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warrior1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 09:26 AM Original message |
Dumb Alabama Immigration Law Working So Well Its Crops Are Rotting |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. WE drive them off their land with our subsidized grain and then deny them the jobs we won't do |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. The other problem with working on a farm |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Blah blah blah. So is crab fishing. $100k plus jobs doing that. n/t |
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dickthegrouch (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. If I were that farmer.... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. interesting. nt |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
5. One small benefit to the outrageous RW laws stemming from 2010: Seeing how they work. |
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Atypical Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. Mixed feelings on this. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Regardless of immigration status, paying slave wages and having terrible working conditions is |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. Millions of unemployed Americans should be ready to pick vegetables. |
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zalinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 11:04 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Quite probably, trying to survive in the city |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. yep. picking vegetables requires traveling from farm to farm - Most Americans aren't |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. There's fisherman that travel from across the globe for seasonal jobs. |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. how many of them live in the area surrounding the crops? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. If the job pays accordingly. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. $10.50 an hour in Colorado; laborers walk out after 6 hours |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Try $30 an hour then. $10 is not a living wage. |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Are you ready to pay snow crab rates for vegetables? Didn't think so. nt |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. It doesn't cost as much to pick vegetables as it does to spend weeks in a boat in the ocean. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. Farms may have to become "pick your own" |
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Gin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. so....this farmer hired illegals....why isn't he in jail? or fined? or both |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I'd gladly do that. Or howsabout we just pay an extra half of one percent to pay the workers |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. The US Chamber of Commerce |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 05:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Nice to see the Chamber bashing laws passed by republican state legislatures and |
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