Posted on 12/31/2015 7:57:10 AM PST by free_life
MOULTRIE, Georgia - "All you black American people, *uck you all ... just go to the office and pick up your check," the supervisor at Hamilton Growers told workers during a mass layoff in June 2009.
The following season, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about 80 workers, many of them black, were simply told: "All you Americans are fired."
Year after year, Hamilton Growers, which has supplied squash, cucumbers, and other produce to Wal-Mart and the Green Giant brand, hired scores of Americans, only to cast off many of them within weeks, according to the U.S. government. And time after time, the grower filled the jobs with foreign guest workers instead.
"We want to go to work and work all day," said Derrick Green, 32, a father of six who said he was fired by Hamilton Growers in 2012 after only three weeks picking squash. "But they don't want that."
Last year, thousands of American companies won permission to bring a total of more than 150,000 people into the country as legal guest workers for unskilled jobs, under a federal program that grants them temporary work permits known as H-2 visas. Officially, the guest workers were invited here to fill positions no Americans want: The program is not supposed to deprive any American of a job, and before a company wins approval for a single H-2 visa, it must attest that it has already made every effort to hire domestically. Many companies abide by the law and make good-faith efforts to employ Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
[ Meat packing is a dirty, nasty job, but it used to pay relatively high wages. With the influx of illegal labor and lax enforcement those wages have dropped precipitously.’ ]
It also becomes a self eating machine.
The less they pay their illegal workers the less they need to charge for their meat the LONGER the BAD ECONOMIC EFFECTS of other bad government decisions on the economy can be MASKED and kept from the people.
The “Cheap Labor” is something all big government types want as it helps to lower the price of good and services which MASKS all the bad effects that Big Gov and Crony gov has on the fundamentals of the economy.
If all these prices reflected reality and the reality of the socialist policies there would be a lot more citizens revolting.
This is also why countries like Germany and Sweden have been importing cheap muslim labor, it allowed them to keep the nightmare known as socialism alive a few decades beyond it’s expiration date.
Yep cheap illegal labor has laid off Americans in most industries.
I understand that Trump’s companies are big in H-2 visas.
I see Mr. Trump being elected in a landslide or very close to one.
This article could be a start on the “discussion about race” that the felon Eric Holder said the nation was too scared to have. A lot of issues raised in this article. The companies say American workers are stoned, lazy, having to pull up their pants all the time so they can’t work, late, lazy, looking to get fired and file a lawsuit, etc... And the “Black Lives Matter” folks, with their violence and entitlement attitude, seem to support that view. We had good friends whose business regularly paid off people who purposely got fired and then sued, just because it cost less to settle with them than to go to court, even if they had impeccable records proving the fired person was fired for not doing the work. So it can be a real problem.
But those who are not like that could very easily get fired by companies who exploit that stereotype in order to get cheaper foreign labor that they can exploit more easily.
If a company requires a rigorous timed physical demonstration (such as digging a 4- deep trench in 5 minutes) to Americans who apply but not to foreigners, it tells exactly what the deal is.
I don’t think any red-blooded American wants Americans of any stripe who are willing to work and capable of doing the work well to be kept out of work by foreigners who allow American companies to run on “sweat-shop” type conditions - all pushed on America by the very politicians who claim to be for “worker rights”, but use this for campaign cash, power, and the ability to commit election fraud.
I think this issue helps Trump, because frustrated Americans - including Blacks and Hispanics - need there to be an honest discussion, and Trump is one of the few people who can actually do that. I think Cruz can also do it but it would be harder for him because he’s not a celebrity. As somebody else said elsewhere, Trump has been seen by the masses making decisions bout who gets fired and who gets rewarded, so people can see his work ethic and can judge for themselves whether he is “racist”. They’ve tried him out on fairness, and they know he will level with them.
It’s way past time for an honest discussion, so all races/ethnicities can see that what the vast majority of us want - including the “conservatives” so many want to demonize - is for the innocent to be rewarded and protected. There are some bad players, though, who exploit everybody they can, for personal gain. Obama and his handlers are definitely in that group of people, along with all his enablers. The sooner every demographic realizes that they are being hurt by that exploitation, the sooner we can reject this crap and get back to merit-based standards.
Hey remember when you (and you know who you are) sat on your ass lecturing people like me about how you wanted a more moderate government and didn’t like all the inflammatory right wing rhetoric and that was why you were voting Obama/liberal Democrat?
Well enjoy it. :)
Source?
I am generally despondent over the prospects of ever really having an “honest discussion about race” in our country. The Doctrine of Politically Correct Thought and Speech declares a number of topics as “off limits,” and unless we can put these topics on the agenda, the honest discussion isn’t going to happen.
Some of those topics are:
1. The role of the government in destroying, through its welfare and dependency programs, traditional black cultural constructs that promoted education, work, family, and church;
2. Failure of blacks to take accountability for their acts, as opposed to blaming others for their predicament;
3. Continued adherence to the “Black Code,” a doctrine that requires all blacks to support another black person when engaged in any dispute or confrontation with a white person, regardless of how wrong the black person is in the dispute.
These things are patently obvious to any thinking white person, but no one is permitted to mention them in public discourse. Because of that, the “honest discussion about race” will never take place because it lacks the element of honesty.
He has since come under fire for lashing out at Mexican immigrants: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," he said in the speech. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." (He later specified that "legal" Mexicans are "incredible people" and have worked for his companies for years.)
A Trump hit piece by cheap labor express water boys... a very credible source lol /s
I guess you must favor all these illegal aliens, no wonder you are TDS.
I guess you must favor all those cheap legal aliens being brought in on H-1Bs and H-2Bs just like The Donald does. No wonder you're a Trumper.
But there are some Blacks who may well rise to the occasion. As we get into a more honest discussion about Islam - which was helped by Ben Carson’s unflinching stand that we should not have a Muslim POTUS because of sharia’s incompatibility with the oath of office - I think we’ll find people having the courage to say things that need to be said. The media would like to pit good people against each other so that the crooks can do business as usual, but if we can refuse to fall for their plan, good people who are able to see who has honest perspective and who is just milking the corrupt political cow can join together to bring about good, rather than to foment trouble for political gain.
Trump in conversation with Black pastors is a good start. Trump in conversation with the police unions is a good start. The sheriff in Milwaukee - is it Clark? - is a good start.
I’m hopeful that at least some Blacks are waking up and realizing how they’ve been used, and are tired of excuses.
Educational vouchers would go a long way. Obama and Bill Ayers thought the best thing they could do for inner-city Blacks was to train their teachers in Sub-Saharan Supremacy, so they could learn to hate America and whites. A lot of good that Annenberg money did those Chicago “youths”... Getting Blacks out of corrupt places where they don’t learn the attitude and skills needed to take control of their own lives would make a huge difference.
Shortly after Obama got into our White House my Dad had a stroke and we spent time visiting him. We ate at the small-town cafe and met the cook and server, a Black man who had gotten sick of Chicago and just come to Nebraska to find whatever work he could. He got that cook’s job and lived there in small-town Nebraska and LOVED it! He was one of the most upbeat, friendly people I have ever met. Just made you want to give a big tip because he had brightened our day. I wonder how many people could use that new lease on life, to just get out from a hopelessly corrupt environment.
It makes me wonder what all happened with those who were displaced after Hurricane Katrina. I’m sure there were all kinds of people, but I wonder how many of them found a new lease on life and never looked back.
That’s what I’d really like to see. But it won’t happen for those who are comfortable on the gravy train.
I’ll keep hoping and praying.
LOL! steak is $6.00/lb and rising! What bunch of < expletive deleted > Any saving by using wetbacks goes into their pocket.
Actually that is Cruz not Trump !
What Trump says and what Trump does are two different things.
What your children are putting off is exactly what these Illegals will do. In fact, we will pay for the birth since they are making enough money. Then it will get them on the gravy train of government support and make it harder for them to leave since the child is a citizen and “needs” it’s parents.
[ The less they pay their illegal workers the less they need to charge for their meat
LOL! steak is $6.00/lb and rising! What bunch of < expletive deleted > Any saving by using wetbacks goes into their pocket. ]
If they didn’t have the illegal labor steak would be 12 bucks a pound....
Cheap illegal alien labor is somewhat of a Cheat or Disguise against the inflation of goods caused by lose socialism fiscal policy.
This is what I am talking about. The economic ignorance is being exploited. Get a grip it doesn't cost 6 dollars a pound to cut up beef. Use your brain.
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