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(Video: Protesters from the VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project being arrested for impeding the Border Patrol vehicles).

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[Cicero]

Shumlin is a horrible jerk. Vermont finances were out of balance in the 1990s due to Democrat stupidity, but the budget was fixed by none other than Howard Dean.

Now the first thing Shumlin did was to pass a Mitt-type health insurance bill, without spending any time at all considering how it would be paid for. Never mind those unimportant little details was his obvious way of thinking. It will take care of itself.

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reduce teh minimum wage or eliminate it, and you’d have lots of seasonal aggie labor.

I used to pick strawberries and peaches as a part-time seasonal job, now it’s all “guest workers”, the farmer can’t hire me legally because he’d have to pay minimum wage.

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"The governor may be correct that there is a need for foreign workers on many Vermont farms, just as there is a need for foreign workers in many of our resort towns," GOP chairwoman Pat McDonald said in a statement issued Friday afternoon. "But Gov. Shumlin's comments that the policy of the State Police should be to 'look the other way' in some cases is completely irresponsible of any elected leader. "

Why did these idiot Republicans even give the guy a "maybe". We have a 9.1 unemployment rate in this country and they are saying that people won't work some jobs. Same old "jobs Americans won't do" BS the dimwits have been throwing around for years. If there were indeed a need for a guest worker program then implement one. You don't wink and let people come here illegally. We have untold amounts of crime committed every year by the illegals who come here not to work, but to steal, pillage and kill. I know, personally, at least 15 young guys who would take one of those "jobs Americans won't do" and I bet many other other FReepers do also.

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