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To: Black Agnes
Most of the chicken plants (tyson, pilgrims pride/etc) hire them because they can pay them less than they *were* paying the locals and pocket the difference. Most chicken in this country is processed by illegals. Have you seen prices decrease? I'd rather pay 50c more for a head of lettuce than pay 90% more in taxes (our property taxes just got raised to build more classrooms for the illegals kids).

That's exactly what's happened here where I live, with the two poultry plants in town (honeysuckle white and tyson's) now almost exclusively hispanic. And the white and black area workers didn't quit , they were forced out by a combination of ways which included acts of violence against nonhispanic workers.

When I was in HS, you either went to college, or you went to the poultry plant-and you were very likely to wind up with better pay and benefits than would your average BA major. That changed in the early 1990s. Now all those poultry workers (who most certainly were NOT "too proud" for those jobs ; they were delighted to get hired on there) are working 2-3 walmart/mcdonalds/gasstation jobs just to (barely) survive.

May every American, including any freeper, who repeats that smug little mantra, "They just do the jobs Americans are too proud and lazy to do" burn in H-LL. And that goes triple for our politicians.

63 posted on 09/26/2002 10:51:07 AM PDT by kaylar
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To: kaylar
I think we should all boycott chicken. Entirely.
64 posted on 09/26/2002 10:54:31 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: kaylar
Well Kaylar, I'm not going to burn in hell for speaking the truth, now am I?

If I own a business and need unskilled labor and I have two people applying for work and one will work of one dollar and the other for three dollars, guess which one I will hire?

You got it in one - the cheap labor.
285 posted on 09/26/2002 7:21:27 PM PDT by dixie sass
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