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Published on July 11, 2010 By dan_l In Blogging

Oh man. This is guaranteed to generate many laughs.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs.

Farm workers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of America.

So the group is encouraging the unemployed — and any Washington pundits or anti-immigrant activists who want to join them — to apply for the some of thousands of agricultural jobs being posted with state agencies as harvest season begins.

Free Republic, here:

Proponents of tougher immigration laws have argued that farmers have become used to cheap labor. The problem with the UFW's proposition, they argue, is that growers don't want to raise wages and improve working conditions enough to attract Americans.

Free Republic is kind of the DU of the right. Thus, it's it's really just an echochamber of stupid. The comments get pretty amusing. Although, if you read down a bit you start noticing that there's a divide on the perception between the backwoods types who see illegals as farm workers and urban types who've noticed that the majority of landscapers/remodelers/roofers have become increasingly suspect over the years. I think there's some insight to be gained from that divergence, if only to suggest that the immigration 'problem' has a bit more teeth to it no so far below the surface, which is something that your average conservative type would be hard pressed to admit.

Still though, you know Hannity is going to find some bored teabagger or minuteman who's going to go and work the fields and tell us all how he likes it and Americans who like....went to school and shit...should get out there and pick fruit.


Comments
on Jul 11, 2010

Still though, you know Hannity is going to find some bored teabagger or minuteman who's going to go and work the fields and tell us all how he likes it and Americans who like....went to school and shit...should get out there and pick fruit.

hey teabag, trolling again? I was going to make a legitimate  comment till I got to the last paragraph.

on Jul 12, 2010

What would you lie me to call them? 

on Jul 12, 2010

dan_l
What would you lie me to call them? 

Tea Partiers.  That is what they are.  Not a sex act performed by many Democrat politicians (and occassional republicans).

But to the article, I guess you can say that the Freepers and Caesar Chavez are on the same boat.  Since he realized what was happening and was very much against illegal immigrant labor.  But your dismissive nature of anyone you do not agree with does not suit you well.  Clearly not ALL democrats are having affairs, so to call them all derogatory teabaggers is not accurate or appropriate.

You raise good points that are lessened by your frequent generalizations and use of pejorative terms used to incense the opponents.  It might work well on the Freeper sight (I would not compare them to DU.org as they are not as hateful), but JU is more middle of the road (which means most on the left see it as right wing).  Still there are many very hot topic discussions that do not have to degenerate into name calling and can be discussed on a rational basis.  This being one of them if you want to be serious about it.

on Jul 13, 2010

Not a sex act performed by many Democrat politicians (and occassional republicans).
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Right.  It's a democrat/republican thing. Must be. 

 

It might work well on the Freeper sight (I would not compare them to DU.org

Of course you wouldn't. 

 

Look, again:  the tea baggers are just a bunch of assclowns.  I know, I know, tshirt conservative types think they're some sort of revolution or something but they're just not.  They'll last exactly as long as the Gold Start Families For Peacyness and the Netroots types. 

on Jul 13, 2010

You pretend to speak from authority and knowledge, yet your statements clearly indicate a gross ignorance of your subject matter.  The wonderful thing about JU is you can say what you please (as long as you do not insult the owner).

But no one has to read you.  Continue with your tirade on that which you know not.  But I will not play in your cess pool as long as you choose to remain ignorant.

on Jul 18, 2010

You pretend to speak from authority and knowledge, yet your statements clearly indicate a gross ignorance of your subject matter.

Or the fact that or you're just an irrational partisan. 

 

Wait wait.....lemme guess: 

"you're not a republican, you're a conservative!"