The town doesn''t have 389 unemployed "legal" people who needed jobs and therefore the company can still operate?
So what is it the immigrants were doing that others can't do?
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The republic has fallen....................
(Of course, look for the crackdowns to end after 1/20/09).
NO PROBLEM - - - BAIL OUT MONEY ON THE WAY!!!! $25 billion check in the mail.
If you play with fire ... you will get burned. And creating a situation where the town is dependent on a single firm to maintain the economic viability of the town ... and allow that firm to go on hiring illegal aliens, is most defiantly playing with fire.
I assume a union set the federales on a plant that refused to knuckle under. Anyone know otherwise?
Show up for their shifts.
Maybe if they hired Americans then they might not be in this mess. One slaughterhouse was raided 9 months ago. They ran ads for jobs and thousands of Americans showed up looking for work. I guess paying a $1 an hour more is not worth it.
Actions have consequences.
Help Wanted signs attract attention
Kosher processed beef sells for premium prices. Therefore the company SHOULD be able to pay fair wages to people willing to move there (nice town and rural setting).
They can likely avail themselves of low priced housing due to the rapid disappearance of former owners/tenants.
I think the packing plant owners are trying to issue a PAYBACK for the affront of making them follow the law.
Probably not. Out of 2200 people in the town, 389 was probably most of their labor force.
Out of that 2200, let's say that 20% are children and 20% are elderly. Now you're down to 880 people. Out of that, let's say 10% choose not to work or cannot (stay at home moms, those on disability, the mentally handicapped, etc), and now you're down to 800. Now take 25% of the remainder that are either self-employed (the local baker, the plumbing and electrical contractor, the mechanic) or are in service industries supporting the plant (the delivery drivers, the restaurant owners, the teachers at the local schools), and you're down to just 580 employees, of whom at least 450 or so work at the plant. Then you take those 389 illegals away, and you're down to all supervisors and admin types, with no one left to support.
So, the plant closes down and the town dies.
I freely admit that I'm making up these percentages, but I think they're reasonable.
It all started on May 12, 2008, when hundreds of federal FDA inspectors raided Agriprocessors and shut down the plant for using 20% sawdust instead of beef to save money.
Quien vive por el mojado se morirá por el mojado.
LOL! I can tell that you've never lived in a small town with a single major employer.
Agriprocessors should not have hired illegal aliens.
This is THEIR fault, not mine. And yet, I am called upon yet again to “donate” my tax dollars for a crisis I had no part in making.
I saw something about this crap last night on the local news. Apparently there are some bleeding heart libs who are helping the illegals. I kept waiting for the newscaster to talk about REAL AMERICANS out of work or helping each other but the people he interviewed were straight up that they were helping illegals. The story made me sick.
Screw Postville. If they want to help illegals they should give them a friggin’ ticket back to Mexico.
As the town continues to decline, I wonder how many out-of-work or barely working Americans will be willing to give up what little they have to help criminals.
The town deserves to die and the owners of these businesses that hired these low wage illegal aliens needs to be prosecuted and jail.
They refused to pay a wage that one could actually survive on..They instead opted to break the law...
All for bigger profits.
Profits regardless of consequences.