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Crops rotting in Ga. without immigrant workers

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by WTFünke, Jun 23, 2011.

  1. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    Good story that describes the rough conditions for these non-skilled workers.
    Here in San Antonio, they use prisoners all the time to pick up trash on medians and other areas prior to them being mowed. We need to make law-breakers pay a price for their deeds and trash/crops represent positive work alternatives.
    It ain't slavery as long as they are credited for time. The probationers shouldn't have a say in what type of work is asked of them.
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Still shaking the bush, boss.
     
  3. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Quite a difference in having prisoners do state work and requiring them to work for someone's business. I wonder how the people who actually work those jobs feel when they find out their jobs are actually punishment for some people.
     
  4. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    That's easy to say, Blitz, but forcing businesses to take laborers who can't do the work isn't exactly fair to the business owners. It's not working in Georgia, where the losses from unharvested crops have already escalated into hundreds of millions of dollars.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    It's all about how to properly retrain Amurican workers
     
  6. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    Don't understand why we're playing these sorts of games with our food supply when severe drought in the Southwest and spring and summertime flooding elsewhere have already done a number on crops.
     
  7. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    It would solve the problems of funding education.
     
  8. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    Not to mention the added cost for security (law enforcement) to make sure no one escapes when they should be picking crops.

    I'm all for prison labor, but there's usually a reason these people are behind bars. I'd rather they stay there.
     
  9. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Why is this being reported in a blog and not in a detailed news story?
     
  10. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Yeah, good question.

     
  11. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    My apologies for not linking more stories, goalmouth. This issue has been covered fairly comprehensively by the AJC and AP.
     
  12. kickoff-time

    kickoff-time Well-Known Member

    Why not just hire us poor journalists. I think we can handle the punishment issue.
     
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