[1rudeboy]

I had to make sure the following makes it above the obligatory fund-raiser photo:

[1rudeboy]

Didn't work.

[elfman2]

Free the shrimp!

More farmed foreign shrimp means less US shrimping and more shrimp eating game fish on our shores.

[NonValueAdded]

Well, you can have steel tariffs, auto tariffs, shrimp tariffs, lumber tariffs, OJ tariffs ...

[Recon Dad]

As usual it all depends on who's ox is being gored. Free trade is free trade, in this case sink or swim. As I recall the shrimpers in Louisiana used to bitch about the Reverend Moon's shrimping company being unfair competition.
If you protect an industry from foreign competition the industry has no incentive to improve and try and become more competitive. The US government has been in the subsidy business forever when it comes to farm products and the rest of the world yells foul. On a level playing field we will usually find a better way to win the trade war.

[the invisib1e hand]

who can pay migrant workers less than what they pay American workers, and who can employ them without benefits.

this is a myth. I have enough experience with migrant workers to know that they're not stupid enough to work for less than they are worth, and are always on the lookout for higher paying work, and work with benefits.

It's a good thing that the H-B2 thing is one-time, because no migrant that I know would work for less pay than American workers and, though they might go without "benefits," -- useless regulatory overhead, in other words -- they often don't stick around for long in such a place.

This argument is spurious and is actually employing a familiar leftwing device: the premise that poor souls are being taken advantage of (not true); and that premise is being used to push an agenda that really has no concern whatsoever for the well being of migrant workers (protecting American laborers -- a sort of tariff on foreign workers, if you will).

[snopercod]

Have any pix of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company?

[spodefly]

Since no one else bothered, I will point out that "Big Shrimp" is an oxymoron.

[snopercod]

Coonass bump

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Fury]

Bump...