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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 04:19 PM Original message |
ICE: Nearly 600 detained in Miss. plant raid |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. The company also probably doesn't want workers who might complain about |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. We never hear about citizens caught up in these sweeps |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 12:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
116. Yep, do wage and benefits enforcement, if necessary by selling off the company to pay |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is where I differ from Kennedy and Obama |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Illegal workers do the jobs Americans DON'T want, while corporations outsource the jobs we DO want. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Factory jobs appeal to a certain sector of the U.S. population. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 10:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. Hispanics will be replaced by Somali immigrants |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:23 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. You picked an extremely bad example. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. FYI: Muslim Somali immigrants have the same rights as native born Americans |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:09 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. YOU are completely wrong |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Why? |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Because the owners Purposely try to hire illegals so they |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:40 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. DING DING DING DING. We have a winner |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:01 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. War Against the Weak? |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:46 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. The reason native union membership declined is... |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. DING DING DING DING. ANOTHER winner |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #59 |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:55 PM Response to Reply #57 |
63. "The" reason or "one of the" reasons. You seem to be solely blaming |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #63 |
68. Kind of hard to outsource some professions |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #68 |
73. Here is another example |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #73 |
106. So, I take it you oppose outsourcing of jobs... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 04:03 AM Response to Reply #63 |
89. Consider illegal immigration the delivery version of outsourcing and the distinction ends |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #57 |
65. So Unions were failing big, then they found someone to blame for |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. I can't see any proof that raids are helping Americans get Jobs |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-31-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #49 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:39 PM Response to Reply #43 |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Clinton pushed through NAFTA. Don't you think that might have |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. NAFTA sent our jobs to Mexico. Haven't we given them enough? |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:54 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. NAFTA also sent our subsidized agricultural products to Mexico, |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #61 |
67. Yep! , more than 60 billions subsidize the US agriculture |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:54 PM Response to Reply #54 |
60. Kennedy's view of the problem is the humanitarian side |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #60 |
66. What humanitarian about union workers out of work and on welfare? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #66 |
69. So what would you do with the 12 millions? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. Deleted sub-thread |
pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. "what's the problem there?" The usual answer: They ain't like us and they are having more babies. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. "Honorable Union Members" pollute this forum with republican points of view |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 03:55 AM Response to Reply #28 |
88. That's what McCain meant when talking about Americans not being willing to pick lettuce for $50/hr |
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sentelle (659 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. the answer is simple |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I say you fine them one grain of rice for the first illegal worker, two grains of rice for the 2nd.. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I always have the same response. |
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The Croquist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. I don't buy the "Illegal workers do the jobs Americans DON'T want" mantra. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. Change that don't want to do at the same wage to Can't afford to do at the same wage |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. That is the Right-wing's excuse for hiring illegals |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
76. I guess you have a lot of murdering of immigrants to do, then |
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The Croquist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-29-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #76 |
110. I wasn't planning on murdering anyone |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
55. Thank you. Finally some common sense - n/t |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
80. Erm, you could not be more wrong. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 08:52 AM Response to Reply #80 |
95. I'm going to make a prediction. Bookmark this please. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-29-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #95 |
107. Interesting prediction |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
102. id hardly call a factory job |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 10:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
118. I find it hard to believe that Americans will not do those jobs |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:10 PM Original message |
Same way they did it to drag us out of the Great Depression... |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Think bigger. Dems=more jobs, more jobs=a need for workers. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Why do some jobs have to be done by illegals? |
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bjb (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 08:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. I too differ with my party on this issue |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
46. This is the reason my parent's left the Democratic party |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-31-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
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wvbygod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. That sucks |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 05:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. We must disagree |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
77. Re: that last line |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #77 |
82. Bad analogy |
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downindixie (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. None of the illegals here in Alabama |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Would have been cheaper and easier just to arrest the one guy who hired them all. n/t |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Then what do we do with the 600 undocumented workers |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Gee. With no job, they'd have to go home! /nt |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Maybe Not |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. I have absolutely no idea. n/t |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. In Sept 07, Carpenters Industrial Council finally won a contract with Howard Industries in MS |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. I don't understand you point. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 10:58 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. An injury t'one's an injury t'all, y'know? In th'past, th'bosses bought slaves: t'day they rents. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:31 AM Response to Reply #29 |
35. I spent several years as a union-side labor lawyer. I have my creds. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. You are insulted by the old Wobblie slogan "An injury to one is an injury to all"? |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. My father is a solid union drywaller |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #50 |
75. Sounds like your father's real problem is: exploitative union-busting companies. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #41 |
53. I am insulted by the pidgin English. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #53 |
74. You're complaining about pretty standard English with some convenient and obvious abbreviations |
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Cobalt Violet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
10. Filling detention centers. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Bingo! |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
78. Just watch, those "detention centers" will start installing crematoria |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #78 |
84. You, my friend, are as misguided and wholly fooled on this issue as can be |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 05:35 AM Response to Reply #84 |
91. Then what are YOU going to do about it then? |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #91 |
103. Thanks for these two posts |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-29-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #91 |
108. Your argument sucks ass |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. What about the people who hired them? |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. This thread is...illuminating |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Any situation that pits people on a low rung of the ladder against |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. More on the story - Union Workers at plant gave the tip |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. "a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago" |
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pegleg (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 11:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Pro- American jobs. Those jobs should be filled by Americans |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I don't see that happening |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
45. Of course you don't, keep the illegals coming |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #45 |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 12:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
47. Interesting -- this morning a union organizer told Amy |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. what could we expect in a republican district? more latinos and blacks = more democratic votes |
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #30 |
81. Miss is a right to work state |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-26-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
32. The system is designed to maximize profits for the bosses, have a permanently marginalized |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
37. "decent wage was paid"? If customers paid a decent price then businesses could pay a decent wage. nt |
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Michigan Soldier (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 01:55 PM Response to Reply #37 |
62. No matter the price, businesses will pay the lowest wage if illegals are here to work. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 10:14 PM Response to Reply #62 |
86. So take illegals out of the equation and one is still left with customers who want cheap products & |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 04:09 AM Response to Reply #37 |
90. Just like oilworkers have experienced a huge increase in wages in the last few years? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 08:39 AM Response to Reply #90 |
93. Do you mean US oil workers are not receiving a decent wage? If so please provide a source to support |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 08:47 AM Response to Reply #93 |
94. You provide a link that establishes a connection between price paid for a good and higher wages.. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 08:59 AM Response to Reply #94 |
96. Please read any basic economics book and you will find that labor is a cost of doing business. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 09:02 AM Response to Reply #96 |
97. It does not follow that higher prices paid for a good imply higher wages. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #97 |
98. I did not say that. I said "Whether one or the other occurs is a function of market forces helped or |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 09:27 AM Response to Reply #98 |
99. You said "If customers paid a decent price then businesses could pay a decent wage" |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #99 |
100. IMO we need to set down over coffee and discuss this issue. I suspect I agree with you but |
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lancer78 (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
83. Watch Out! |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-27-08 08:00 PM Response to Reply #83 |
85. And the businesses had to raise their wages to fill the jobs |
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lancer78 (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 02:59 AM Response to Reply #85 |
87. Actually |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 05:48 AM Response to Reply #87 |
92. Shhh. You make it sound like immigrants are good for the local economy. Few here want to hear that. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-29-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #92 |
111. Yeah yeah yeah |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #111 |
114. I agree with much of what you say, but... |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 08:15 AM Response to Reply #114 |
115. I agree with you |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 12:42 PM Response to Reply #111 |
117. Why aren't you organizing your working class brothers from Mexico? |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-29-08 03:12 PM Response to Reply #87 |
109. Of course |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
101. Tough for me to imagine what additional... |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
104. i hate that the immigrants hafta be punished |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-28-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
105. We should grant instant citizenship to people caught in raids like this... |
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toopers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
112. What is a "decent wage"? |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-30-08 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
113. So why isn't it an "illegal manufacturing plant"? |
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