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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:26 AM Original message |
GA.’s farm-labor crisis going exactly as planned (anti-illegal-immigrant law means few workers) |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. What did Deal really expect with this law? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Minimum wage? Try again. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. He expected to get elected by the support of bigoted voters. And, he won. |
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Dogtown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:47 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. There you go. |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. Good. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. +! There is no job that people won't do, there are only wages people won't work for. |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. You are way too optimistic |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Convict labor never went away. Prisons now employ hundreds of thousands |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:48 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Deal's already talking about hiring "criminal probationers." |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. But it's more economical to let the crops rot than to pay a decent wage to any human being. |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. It's only because they can't compete with produce from states using illegal immigrants |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
3. Dopes. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
4. Republican Fantasy Economics strikes again... |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. Tell those Republican corporate welfare subsidized farmers. . . . |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Good point |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. Ironic isn't it? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
12. I agree with the actions but probably for very different reasons. |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
18. Good.. |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. "Illegal" is not a noun; it is an adjective. |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Thanks so much.. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. By today's standards, it is now a noun. n/t |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 12:39 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. To the chagrin of English teachers, and |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 11:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Yeah, that's why the crops in the ground are rotting. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
19. "Mr. Lincoln, your Emancipation Proclamation has simply DEVASTATED this year's harvest!" |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-24-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. The company complaints do echo the same arguments the plantation owners used |
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SoapBox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
26. K & R |
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Oasis_ (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
27. This is the market working as intended... |
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