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Post by judes on Dec 10, 2008 19:03:41 GMT -6
Unreal. We are in the midst of one of the worst economic depressions we have ever seen, and Bush, in the dead of night so no one will notice, changes laws to make increasing foreign farm workers easier. This law will reduce farm worker wages even further, (they make less than $15,000/yr now which is poverty level) and add many more foreign workers onto the US farm industry rosters. Just what we need as millions of Americans are losing their jobs. Lou Dobbs talked about this on his show tonight, he was steaming. When his transcripts come out, you can see what he had to say. These were the only stories I could find on the web at the moment. www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/57549.htmlwww.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_ZJ8etax13XemL7KIn8FUy7knCAD950508O0WASHINGTON (AP) — As it prepares to leave office, the Bush administration is moving to make it easier for U.S. farming companies to hire foreign field workers, which farmworker groups say will worsen wages and working conditions.
Farm groups said that changes to the H2A visa program, used by the agriculture industry to hire temporary farm workers, were posted on the Labor Department's Web site at midnight Tuesday but have since been taken down.
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Post by kramer on Dec 10, 2008 19:23:18 GMT -6
Unreal. We are in the midst of one of the worst economic depressions we have ever seen, and Bush, in the dead of night so no one will notice, changes laws to make increasing foreign farm workers easier. This law will reduce farm worker wages even further, (they make less than $15,000/yr now which is poverty level) and add many more foreign workers onto the US farm industry rosters. Just what we need as millions of Americans are losing their jobs. Lou Dobbs talked about this on his show tonight, he was steaming. When his transcripts come out, you can see what he had to say. These were the only stories I could find on the web at the moment. www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/57549.htmlwww.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_ZJ8etax13XemL7KIn8FUy7knCAD950508O0WASHINGTON (AP) — As it prepares to leave office, the Bush administration is moving to make it easier for U.S. farming companies to hire foreign field workers, which farmworker groups say will worsen wages and working conditions.
Farm groups said that changes to the H2A visa program, used by the agriculture industry to hire temporary farm workers, were posted on the Labor Department's Web site at midnight Tuesday but have since been taken down.So, we're going to allow in more legal foreign workers, we've already let in 15 to 30 million illegals, we've outsourced over 3 million (this number might actually be 5 million, more on that later) jobs in the last 8 years... Where's the light at the end of the tunnel in this scenario?
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Post by judes on Dec 10, 2008 19:36:01 GMT -6
... Where's the light at the end of the tunnel in this scenario? Exactly Kramer. I'm afraid the only light we're gonna see anytime soon is the train's light right before it runs us over and finishes us off. It appears the American worker has been sold down the river.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 10, 2008 21:46:27 GMT -6
I missed this on Lou Dobbs today. What possible justification could there be to let ANY more workers into this country? We've lost 2 million jobs over the last year, our working age population has increased by 2 million over the last year, and the number of American officially Unemployed has increased by a whopping 3 million over the last year. Worse still, the number of Americans not working has increased by 4 million over the last year. And, last but not least, we now have 90 million working age Americans that are not employed at present. What possible need is there for more workers? We've got a labor SURPLUS to the absolute max. If this was a Bush Administration decision, then Obama's very 1st act his first day in office should be to reverse that decision. That's a no-brainer from anyone's standpoint. January is right around the corner. Then we'll see if Obama has even one populist bone in his body, or whether he's just another globalist Corporatist puke like Bush.
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Post by kramer on Dec 12, 2008 0:13:41 GMT -6
I missed this on Lou Dobbs today. What possible justification could there be to let ANY more workers into this country? We've lost 2 million jobs over the last year, our working age population has increased by 2 million over the last year, and the number of American officially Unemployed has increased by a whopping 3 million over the last year. Worse still, the number of Americans not working has increased by 4 million over the last year. And, last but not least, we now have 90 million working age Americans that are not employed at present. What possible need is there for more workers? We've got a labor SURPLUS to the absolute max. If this was a Bush Administration decision, then Obama's very 1st act his first day in office should be to reverse that decision. That's a no-brainer from anyone's standpoint. January is right around the corner. Then we'll see if Obama has even one populist bone in his body, or whether he's just another globalist Corporatist puke like Bush. I suspect he's globalist because I know he was at a meeting where they discussed sending jobs offshore to reduce the world's poverty (but, I don't know what he said so my assumption could be wrong). He's also big on the UN and had recently introduced a bill to pay something like 0.7% of our GDP into a UN poverty reduction fund (or something like it). I don't think this means one is a globalist but it's along the same lines... reducing world poverty at the expense of America. And btw, that effing infuriates me that I have to be taxed to pay the UN. I wish that Americans would revolt and tell the UN to kiss our asses.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 12, 2008 1:43:58 GMT -6
I suspect he's globalist because I know he was at a meeting where they discussed sending jobs offshore to reduce the world's poverty (but, I don't know what he said so my assumption could be wrong). He's also big on the UN and had recently introduced a bill to pay something like 0.7% of our GDP into a UN poverty reduction fund (or something like it). I don't think this means one is a globalist but it's along the same lines... reducing world poverty at the expense of America. And btw, that effing infuriates me that I have to be taxed to pay the UN. I wish that Americans would revolt and tell the UN to kiss our asses. I heard a little about Obama's global poverty plan in the past, and didn't like it at the time. And I'm not the biggest fan of the UN either. But I think a much bigger problem is the WTO. We need to get out of the WTO asap. Our trade policy needs to be determined by the American people and their elected representatives in Congress, not non-elected Corporate-appointed globalist trade representatives, whose only allegiance is to their Corporate management and their richest stockholders. We need to be able to levy tariffs at will on foreign imports for any reason that benefits "We, the people" of the United States.
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Post by judes on Jan 14, 2009 18:42:55 GMT -6
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