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In article 
<dbedb113-463a-484c-b5a6-15bdead5bce5@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
 walt (The Racist) tonne <tonnewalt487@gmail.com> wrote:


<http://www.grist.org/article/food-farmworkers-dare-americans-to-take-our
-jobs>

NOT LOVIN' IT
Farmworkers dare Americans to �Take Our Jobs!�


"Job opportunities for agricultural workers occupations should be 
abundant because large numbers of workers leave these jobs due to their 
low wages and physical demands."
-Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 
Edition


Tired of being vilified as stealing jobs from unemployed American 
citizens, and hoping to spark realistic discussion of immigration 
reform, United Farm Workers is teaming up with Comedy Central's Stephen 
Colbert for an awesome campaign called Take Our Jobs, the Associated 
Press reports.

The union has created a website where you can sign yourself up for 
fieldwork. Experienced field hands will train legal residents and hook 
them up with the many seasonal harvest openings in California, Florida, 
and elsewhere.

Because really, forget Census taking -- what American doesn't want a 
back-breaking, hot, dangerous (workers get enslaved, poisoned by 
pesticides, and die from heat stroke) job with no health benefits, paid 
vacation, or even a living wage? Federal overtime provisions don't apply 
to farmworkers, nor do minimum-wage laws, the AP reminds would-be 
applicants.

Such working conditions, along with those in other immigrant-heavy, 
underpaid food sectors such as slaughterhouses, are the basis for our 
cheap-food system. Without them, the 99-cent hamburger would not exist.
"We are a nation in denial about our food supply," says the UAW 
campaign. "Agriculture in the United States is dependent on an immigrant 
workforce. Three-quarters of all crop workers working in American 
agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government 
statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have 
not been authorized to work legally in the United States."

Take Our Jobs will be featured on the Colbert Report on July 8. We're 
glad Colbert will be doing his part to help the unemployed of America 
find some honest work -- and get a discussion about immigration reform 
going. Any attempts to reform our food system have to include ending the 
exploitation of undocumented, unprotected workers.

> On May 9, 3:06�pm, Iconoclast <goldst...@nym.hush.com> wrote:
> > Go to the link and read the entire article. �It shows the myth of
> > unpicked fruit perpetrated by bosses demanding slave labor while
> > pretending that those who support illegal alien workers hold some kind
> > of moral high ground.
> >
> > http://www.vdare.com/index.asp
> >
> > The JD Alexander story only gets more interesting as you dig deeper
> > into his background: according to The Ledger, his company Alico Agri
> > owes the IRS over $26 million dollars in penalties and back taxes and
> > has been audited by the IRS for 18 of its last 20 income tax returns.
> > [Alico Fights IRS Demand for $26.8 Million, March 18, 2011]
> >
> > Yet somehow this trouble taxpayer ended up as the Senate budget chief
> > with fiscal authority over all of Florida.
> >
> > Something is rotten in the Sunshine State. And it isn't Tamar Jacoby's
> > mythical "unpicked fruit."
> >
> > What stinks is Sen. JD Alexander and the disproportionate influence
> > that corrupt special interest groups like the Florida Farm Bureau
> > wield over the political process.
> >
> > They have repeatedly blocked patriotic immigration reform at the state
> > level which is supported by a supermajority of voters.
> >
> > What is most striking about the modern Slave Power is how it uses the
> > same Antebellum arguments to thwart the democratic will.
> 
> Here is a better link:
> 
> http://www.vdare.com/misc/110508_houston.htm
-- 
- Billy

Bush's 3rd term: Obama plus another elective war
Bush's 4th term: another Judas goat

America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash. 
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the 
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks 
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
<http://theuptake.org/2011/03/05/michael-moore-the-big-lie-wisconsin-is-broke/>