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Kentucky tobacco farmers keep close eye on immigration debate
Wilmington Star/Associated Press ^
| 6-1-06
| Bruce Schreiner
Posted on 06/01/2006 11:22:23 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
This is what happens when the American public wants cheap smokes, cheap meat, cheap daycare, cheap lawn service, cheap roofing...
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posted on
06/01/2006 12:19:18 PM PDT
by
D-Chivas
To: epow
"How many healthy men and women in KY and surrounding areas are living on welfare or charity of some variety? If they didn't get their living by sponging off the working people of the state they might rather pick tobacco for a reasonable wage than go without shelter, frozen pizzas, beer, smokes, iPods, and cable TV."
from a former Tobacco Farmer. Yes you cannot get the locals to work for a fair wage. They would rather sit on the porch and drink or take oxycontin. However, why is this guy still raising tobacco? The government bought out my allotment and they is no price supports or guarantees. To raise tobacco in these days and time is playing the lottery. Where just 2 years ago tobacco fields were many it's hard to find them today unless you go to Indonesia.
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posted on
06/01/2006 12:25:14 PM PDT
by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: reagandemo
They would rather sit on the porch and drink or take oxycontinKind of what I thought the situation would be. There's a lot of that kind around here too, living in government subsidized housing projects and popping out a kid per year on government health care funding. The only difference around here is that I think they prefer the locally cooked crystal meth to oxycontin.
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posted on
06/01/2006 12:54:15 PM PDT
by
epow
To: epow
My Mother-In-Law used to have a lady (I use that term loosely) who rented a farmhouse down the road from her. The lady need to increase her check so she has her nephew come and spend the night with her 12 year old daughter. Yep 9 months later her check was increased.
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posted on
06/01/2006 1:36:25 PM PDT
by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: reagandemo
Yep 9 months later her check was increased.Yep, and that 12 year old is learning how to work the system by her mother's example, and will repeat it many times over with her own brood.
Aint seeing Umurikun welfare programs in action a wonderful thing to behold?
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posted on
06/01/2006 2:40:23 PM PDT
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epow
To: epow
Sad that kid does not have a chance or her baby either. Kind makes the jokes about Kentucky and family trees not forking kind of true.
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posted on
06/02/2006 6:04:30 AM PDT
by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: SJackson
You'd think the anti-smoking lobby would also be anti-illegal immigration
after reading this article!
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posted on
06/02/2006 6:07:24 AM PDT
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VOA
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