06.23.11
The other obvious source of cheap labor
Upon running the illegal immigrant farm labor out of Georgia, the locals find their crops rotting in the sun, being unable to fill the jobs for lack people willing to do the hard stoop labor for the current compensation.
It didn’t take any time at all for some Georgia politicians to come up with the idea of pressuring ex-cons out on probation into the work. Since probation requires they be employed.
The only slight fly in the ointment is the ex-cons can still walk off the job.
It’s reported as attempting to steal labor and that’s accurate. The comparisons to slavery aren’t hard to find.
At Pine View Farm, Frank calls it revival of press gangs.
At Balloon Juice, the assessment is far worse.
It’s deeply immoral.
Naturally, America’s weapons shops have dipped into this pool already.
And this post marks the beginning of the new category of Decline and Fall. Permanent Fail is full up.
At InTrade, the likelihood that Congress will force the US into default over the debt ceiling is only 1-in-4.
M.Martinez said,
July 20, 2011 at 11:08 am
What do you expect. It’s Ga. and as a Ga. resident the whole political system here in this state is sitting out under the sun and rots like the crops .