[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.

An estimated $20 billion American dollars was taken out of the American economy and sent back home by immigrant workers to be fed into the Mexican economy in '05, and the amount will no doubt be even higher this year. Taxing American workers to pay other able bodied Americans not to work and put their paychecks back into the American economy while at the same time paying to haul in Mexicans who will send most of their paychecks home to Mexico doesn't make good economic sense to me.

[reagandemo]

"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.