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Article #2859Re: "Mexican Christmas" proves we can get along without wetbacks
From: pohaku.kane
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:30
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:30
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editor@netpath.net wrote: > Kane wrote: > >Bracero's have been an important element in farm economy for about > >80-90 years in this country, that I know of. My uncles hired many to > >work their ranches and farms in the Southwest. My uncles couldn't GET > >white labor, let alone pay for them if they were there and willing. A > >seasonal large workforce has always been essential to this county's > >wealth and prosperity and to keeping YOUR commodity prices down. > > In case you haven't noticed, farming - especially stoop-labor > farming - really is on its way out in most all of America. In case you haven't noticed I'm not writing an encyclopedia here. Doubtless I left out a lot of things. Do you have a racist goal you makes you avoid thinking for yourself? And rejecting out of hand all the other material? It goes like this ANYKIND OF LOWPAID LABOR WHERE A MOBILE WORK FORCE IS NEEDED WILL ATTRACT THE USER....BUSINESS, AND THE USED, THE MEXICAN WORKERS. > Here in my > North Carolina county - which had four tobacco-auction warehouses 30 > years ago - today there aren't any; that's proof of how much less > tobacco farming is going on here. What farming remains has steadily > increasingly automated. Last I heard I was talking about the history of the Bracero, and I presume, as an argument against the concept that "we can get along without cheap illegal alien labor," coming from the peanut gallery. We can get along, alright, IF we are willing to pay much higher prices. Kane > No $4 to park! No $6 admission! http://www.INTERNET-GUN-SHOW.com
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