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Official: immigration law could hurt poultry biz
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| 8/8/10
| Katie Highsmith
Posted on 08/08/2010 10:28:07 AM PDT by Principled
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You can't make this stuff up...
So their "leader" says it will do harm to the economy to enforce the law? Notwithstanding the peculiarity of that statement - he gives no evidence that it's true. Further, should it even matter?
Ya think w/ Ga's 10%+ unemployment that the industry would find workers?!
IDIOTS these illegals' leaders are... IDIOTS.
....just sayin'...
To: Principled
No chicken? We’re doomed! Doomed!
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:30:05 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The United States of America! aka The Big Pinata. Bash it and the goodies fall out.)
To: Principled
lulz.......some ridiculous BS these days.....
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:30:24 AM PDT
by
cranked
To: Principled
When it comes to the left leaners, up is down and down is up.
To: Principled
OK. That’s it. I give up.
We must immediately give up all thoughts of protecting our sovereignity because to do so might inconvenience the poultry business.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:31:17 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Principled
They economy wouldn’t be hurt.
The plants would be forced to pay fair wages and benefits.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:31:55 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Principled
I think he means Mexico’s economy but wants us to think otherwise.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:32:17 AM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Principled
Ya think w/ Ga's 10%+ unemployment that the industry would find workers?!At one time this industry paid Americans $18/hr with full benefits. Now they pay illegals $6/hr with no benefits. What happened? Did poultry really become that much cheaper?
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:32:35 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Principled
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:32:54 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: Principled
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:32:57 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: Principled
So there’s nobody unemployed in Georgia?
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:33:44 AM PDT
by
McGavin999
(I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
To: Principled
Uh, that’s not good enough.
You raise the wages until you get employees. Period.
Don’t sweat it. I’ll pay more for my stuff if I know I’m hiring Americans, sparky.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:34:27 AM PDT
by
Daisyjane69
(Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
To: Principled
Pay citizens enough and they'll do the work.The price of chicken (and,perhaps,lots of other stuff) might go up a bit but *that's* a price I'm willing to pay for a country free of wet....ooops,can't use that word....”undocumented workers”.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:36:57 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
To: Principled
It’s high time Americans grow their own damn food again and stop depending on foreign labor.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:38:05 AM PDT
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: Principled
I wonder what the Georgia Association of Caucasian Elected Officials thinks about this.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:38:26 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The United States of America! aka The Big Pinata. Bash it and the goodies fall out.)
To: Principled
Oh poo. I guess some of those ill-gotten, illegal, profits made by using underpaid illegal labor will have to be spent on hiring legal workers.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:38:39 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Principled
BULL SHEETROCK!!! Any business that bases its model on illegal labor deserves to be put out of business. I guarantee that if the illegals packed up and left that within a few weeks the place would be fully staffed and the working conditions would be much better. In addition, within a few years the processing plants would be more automated and more efficient, while the poorly run plants would have folded. Innovation always happens in a tight labor market.
This is the exact justification the cotton planters in the south used before the civil war.
To: Vendome
In order to pay fair wages and benefits (assuming the illegals are paid for less or neither) will cause the price of chicken to rise, assuming the producers want to maintain current profit levels. If pricing is resistant to upward increases, it will force the producers to create more efficient production methods for chicken processing. Whichever way it goes, higher chicken prices can’t be anywhere near as bad as what it costs to educate, provide medical care, and foodstamps to illegals and their offspring, all subsidized by you and me (either legally or fraudulently), the taxpayer. Even if all the food processors, landscapers and cheap construction workers were to leave the work force, America would find a way to bridge the gap, whether putting legal Americans back to work, etc. Prices will adjust according to supply and demand, if Americans can’t readily afford one thing, they’ll adjust the way they always have. No big deal.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:39:49 AM PDT
by
john drake
(Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
To: Daisyjane69
You raise the wages until you get employees. Period. Dont sweat it. Ill pay more for my stuff if I know Im hiring Americans, sparky.
BINGO! And the fact is you won't pay more because a tighter labor market will lead to innovation and greater efficiency.
To: Daisyjane69
You raise the wages until you get employees. Period. That's right. Let the market work.
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posted on
08/08/2010 10:42:39 AM PDT
by
JohnG45
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