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Title: Anti-Immigrant Showboating By Politicians Leaves Georgia Crops Rotting In The Fields
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Crooks and Liars
URL Source: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-mad ... migrant-showboating-politician
Published: Jun 24, 2011
Author: Susie Madrak
Post Date: 2011-06-24 17:05:06 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2390
Comments: 3
In yet another example of how wingnut politicians act without thinking of the logical consequences, Georgia Republicans passed a law that's leaving their agricultural industry in sad shape: After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia. It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars’ worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields. It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they’ve done to Georgia’s largest industry. Barely a month ago, you might recall, Gov. Nathan Deal welcomed the TV cameras into his office as he proudly signed HB 87 into law. Two weeks later, with farmers howling, a scrambling Deal ordered a hasty investigation into the impact of the law he had just signed, as if all this had come as quite a surprise to him. And you know, here's where the chickens really come home to roost. Politicians act as if undocumented immigrants contribute nothing to the nation's economy, when the truth is, they do damned hard and dirty work that Americans consider beneath them: The first batch of probationers started work last week at a farm owned by Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. In the coming days, more farmers could join the program. So far, the experiment at Minor's farm is yielding mixed results. On the first two days, all the probationers quit by mid-afternoon, said Mendez, one of two crew leaders at Minor's farm. "Those guys out here weren't out there 30 minutes and they got the bucket and just threw them in the air and say, `Bonk this, I ain't with this, I can't do this,'" said Jermond Powell, a 33-year-old probationer. "They just left, took off across the field walking." Mendez put the probationers to the test last Wednesday, assigning them to fill one truck and a Latino crew to a second truck. The Latinos picked six truckloads of cucumbers compared to one truckload and four bins for the probationers. "It's not going to work," Mendez said. "No way. If I'm going to depend on the probation people, I'm never going to get the crops up." You'd think that someone would figure out that undocumented laborers working for crap wages are what keeps food prices low enough for the entire nation. But then, you'd be assuming that these showboating politicians are smart enough to think of anything that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
So put the Welfare people out there and let them pick the crops.... Tell them no "picky picky, no welfare checky checky"!!!!!
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
End welfare handouts, and watch those crops get picked. Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
The Bracero Program worked pretty well until it was ended in the sixties with the baby boomers flooding the jobs market. Before that it was primarily kids who worked the fields which was the reason summer vacations from school originated. Since Johnny's now too precious to have out in the field all sweaty and tired when he can be playing soccer or basketball, it's time to start it up again.
`Bonk this, I ain't with this, I can't do this,'" said Jermond Powell, a 33-year-old probationer. "They just left, took off across the field walking."
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: CZ82 (#1)
So put the Welfare people out there and let them pick the crops.... Tell them no "picky picky, no welfare checky checky"!!!!!
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