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Obiously CA is just trying to fix their economy. They so welcomed illegal aliens that CA has become a Mecca for them...then did the same for the homeless. Now, since Gays usually have more income and require less services (no kids)...they will be the Gay Mecca to help them pay for the other two groups.
Nothing wrong with that. Fixing the economy that is.

I don't think California's farmers are really interested in the illegal problem with the constant supply of people to pay less. It does keep the prices of vegetables down in NM though doesn't it?

Any place with our type of climate will be a haven for homeless. Not a lot of homeless from San Diego heading up to Wisconsin. We've almost run out of the supply of Ronald Regan era homeless so we are just restocking the shelves.

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Sooo you musta bin the guy that he bent over in the john twice...
If I showed up I would out your tastes, slap your bald head, take your wealth & make you tell me you were glad I did!
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... the illegal problem with the constant supply of people to pay less. It does keep the prices of vegetables down in NM though doesn't it?....
That is one of those ideas that people feel so comfortable repeating. (cheaper vegetables.) Have you ever put a number to this? . ..a percentage? Of course it's California ...and labor/cost studies have been done. Anyway, going from memory, a head of lettuce would cost only pennies more (retail) if no Mexicans were around to pick it. --I expect that a quick web search will get the exact #'s
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...It does keep the prices of vegetables down in NM though doesn't it?...
Gee...here in NM...the price of produce has not come down a bit. perhaps you are not passing on the savings...and the CA produce we do get here really sucks. usually unripe and poor quality. Maybe that is just for ease in transportation...but I have not seen it so bad elsewhere. It is much better in the southeast. An awful lot of the "fresh" produce I buy seems to come from Central/South America. particularly avacados and berries.
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Old 05-18-2008, 11:24 AM
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This fight isn't over. There is a growing movement for a a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. I believe we will be successful.
It wasn't all that long ago when the people of California voted to outlaw gay marriage, so obviously a majority feels that way. Will we get 2/3? Only time will tell.

Or, maybe God will get fed up with this and make the big earthquake will hit and take care of the problem. He's done it before.
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***** CA produce. One Tangipahoa parish strawberry has more taste than a whole flat from CA. Paquemines parish greole tomatoes and citrus.
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That is one of those ideas that people feel so comfortable repeating. (cheaper vegetables.) Have you ever put a number to this? . ..a percentage? Of course it's California ...and labor/cost studies have been done. Anyway, going from memory, a head of lettuce would cost only pennies more (retail) if no Mexicans were around to pick it. --I expect that a quick web search will get the exact #'s
Why the need to put a percentage to it? Would it change the fact that paying more for workers to pick the vegetables would result in the farmers asking for more money. They want their margin to be maintained. Then the distributor, then the consumer's store, etc.

Same thing is happening in the Midwest meat packing industry. BY the way, I was not condoning the practice. Some farmers are knowingly looking aside and taking advantage of the illegal worker that will not complain. Would you assume that the offending farmers are all Democrats? Certainly they are all Capitolists.

I should have put that post in green.

If you really need a labor study to the tenth of a cent presented, you will be wanting unless you do it yourself.
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Gee...here in NM...the price of produce has not come down a bit. perhaps you are not passing on the savings...
Probably has to do with those darn gas prices.

I can't comment on the quality of the Cali produce you receive.
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If I showed up I would out your tastes, slap your bald head, take your wealth & make you tell me you were glad I did!
MY, MY.... you sound so vicious...Gomer....

BTW are you still making your underwear out of flour sacks.
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Why the need to put a percentage to it? Would it change the fact that paying more for workers to pick the vegetables would result in the farmers asking for more money. They want their margin to be maintained. Then the distributor, then the consumer's store, etc. ...
What may be counter intuitive is that even with the magnifying factors of dist/resale we are still just talking pennies. WHY that is important is in the fact that "the pay to pickers" is of no significant scale . . .thus, a weak argument to point to "increased cost."
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Probably has to do with those darn gas prices...
...and that is still another problem caused by those tree-hugging California liberals.
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Let's see if we can sum this thread up.

Tabs is baiting.

Not all Gays are sodomists, and not all sodomists are gay.

God hates the Gays. Literally.

Californians are the cause of high gas prices.

Nice. Did I miss anything ?
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Let's see if we can sum this thread up.

Tabs is baiting.

Not all Gays are sodomists, and not all sodomists are gay.

God hates the Gays. Literally.

Californians are the cause of high gas prices.

Nice. Did I miss anything ?
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I think this thread is foul.

Tabs has made, in my opinion, homophobic comments. I'm going to report him.

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MY, MY.... you sound so vicious...Gomer....

BTW are you still making your underwear out of flour sacks.
Curious about my underwear? And you wonder why I consider you a putz.
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What may be counter intuitive is that even with the magnifying factors of dist/resale we are still just talking pennies. WHY that is important is in the fact that "the pay to pickers" is of no significant scale . . .thus, a weak argument to point to "increased cost."
Aside from the wage scale , there are also health benefits, SS, CSD to pay as well. It all adds up. If the rationale for knowingly hiring illegals is not for the benefit of increasing the bottom line, then there must be a devious nationwide plot to upset the balance of our AG business.

What do you think is the reason for knowingly hiring illegals?
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'Cause the people who should be doing it, welfare recipients, are getting paid to sit on the fat asses and reproduce and wont work, thanks to you democrats!
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Let's see if we can sum this thread up.

Californians are the cause of high gas prices.
Not exactly. It is tree hugging liberal Californians who are responsible for the gas prices. They gave up on the trees and moved to NY. They make formidable traders after years of experience being chained to trees. As a result, they have made a killing in the oil futures market. THey are also single handedly responsible for rejecting the drilling of oil off the New Jersey coast. They are also responsible for putting the oil right in the middle of a Federal Natural Reserve in Alaska. THey created oil shale at the Livermore Lab but, confounded oil companies by making it to costly to retrieve. FUrthermore, when Dick Cheney shot himself in the face and died (the real untold story), Silicone Valley created a Dick Cheney clone so there would me no disruption with our current foreign oil policy. Not to mention they secretly converted the Dickster's daughter into a Gay! THis was perhaps their greatest triumph.

Other than that, yes you've about covered it.
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'Cause the people who should be doing it, welfare recipients, are getting paid to sit on the fat asses and reproduce and wont work, thanks to you democrats!
Are you directing that towards me? If so, why did you label me as a democrat?

Aside from that. Welfare has little bearing on who the farmers hire, who the meat packers hire, who the construction companies hire. They choose to hire unknown (easier to look the other way) workers, pay cash (low wage) and move on.

You think they are forced to hire illegals??? puuuleeeese.
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