Comments on: Rotten to the core: Georgia’s enforcement-only policy

By: Reality squashes farmer’s plan to hire local labor | Sutherland Daily

Reality squashes farmer’s plan to hire local labor | Sutherland Daily — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:27:22 +0000

[...] are jobs out there that most Americans simply will not doWe have seen what happens when states like Georgia and Alabama adopt such laws. While these measures are often touted as job-creating legislation, the [...]

By: Matthew Piccolo

Matthew Piccolo — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:12:00 +0000

This post is a good one.

By: Larry Morrison

Larry Morrison — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:36:00 +0000

The same thing happened in the mid 60s…Mid 1860s that is. There was nobody to pick the cotton at slave wages.

It is time that Farms, Construction and all of those other industries that depend on the artificially low wages created by an influx of illegal aliens pay a wage based on real demand.

Paying a low wage just because you can get away with it and then pass on all the other costs for people to work at these low wages onto the Taxpayer is not a conservative principle.

Bringing in a glut of illegal aliens to fill these jobs, brings down the worth of everyone’s labor. It is very similar to flooding our monetary system with counterfeit money. It is not that hard to understand the real economics of this. Pay the wages!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:07:00 +0000

Agreed. The point was, Georgia legislators would never have created this atrocious legislation if the feds had taken care of business in the first place.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:30:00 +0000

“The blame for this situation, ultimately, sits squarely on the shoulders of the federal government.”

That’s funny, I would have figured it would have sat on the shoulders of the ignorant legislators from Georgia who actually passed the law.

I mean, I agree with you that the federal gov’t needs a more nuanced immigration policy and that they’ve largely failed in that regard, but to apologize for the morons who actually did this is silly. The status quo was not perfect, but it was better than this. These Republicans actively made things worse.