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- Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+240Oh the irony...
- dankoleary, on 10/12/2007, -5/+91Yeah, Captain Irony called, he surrenders.
- ThndrShk2k, on 10/12/2007, -13/+86Resoning?
"Well, they WHERE working on the Mexican side..." - NICU, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65There shouldn't be anything wrong with this as long as they make the illegal workers stand on the south side of the fence... That's the whole point isn't it?
- garyfranz, on 10/12/2007, -24/+79It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
- bloodylip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57It's like 10,000 illegal mexicans, when all you need is a few with papers.
- Ollin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57Its funny because George Lopez made a joke about this, that mexicans would be building the fence to keep the MEXICANS out lol. gotta love it :P
- Platypus3333, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56Seriously, if I were one of those illegal workers I'd be pissed. All the secret trapdoors and switches I've built for my friends will get taken out.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -7/+53Is it irony or plain old hypocrisy?
"Hey, no Mexicans! You guys have to get work visas if you want to work in a meat packing plant! By the way, we've got a fence we need built." - billblaskey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49^
which means George Lopez probably said it first. - carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+50or just don't build the fence at all. it's waste of money and will only serve as lipservice.
- JLMac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34From the article: "Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program."
No, it proves they will hire the cheapest labor they can find....... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+38Oh the ironing...
- TheTankengine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Honestly, could anybody possibly *not* see this coming?
- gtdawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27@ Ollin
It was Carlos Mencia on Comedy Central. - gus2074, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Outsourcing at its best!
- deadprez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24They must be doing the job Americans don't want to do.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18sometimes life reflects comedy
- xero69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18If our government is serious about cracking down on illegal immigration they need to continue to identify and prosecute those who hire illegal immigrants.
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Right...
(dialog from the Cube Prequel-Prequel: Cube 0.0) -
Gee Steve, what do you think they want all this poison gas installed in this one room for?
I dunno, but two floors down I've got a room full of piano wire to sharpen, so whatever it is, we're being productive, so shuddup and keep your head down. - dpcamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Wait.. so illegal immigrants are willing to work for minimum wage to build a wall to keep them from entering???
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Ever see "Cube"? The workers didn't know what it was really going to be all about
- toastjam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I'm pretty sure immigrating into most countries is a bit more difficult than that...
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Darn straight the company should be punished. The likely won the contract with a lower bid because they would stand a greater profit with illegal workers. Fine them, jail them, and pick a new company to build the fence.
- MelvinSchlubman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"American **coughBerlinWallcough** Fence"
Except you got the direction wrong -- more appropriate to call it a Mexican Berlin wall. - teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11How is this not a link to The Onion?!
- MrSketch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Minimum wage? Right. These are illegal immigrants, they are not entitled to the right to minimum wage. This company probably won the bid because they can get away with paying their workers less that minimum wage since they aren't citizens.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Well, I guess it depends on which side of the fence they were working now, doesn't it?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10how many of you here get paid minimum wage ? and how much should you get paid to stand outside in the heat building a really long fence? Would you do it for 6.75 and hour ?
We bitch and complain when our own government spends $200 million dollars a year on bullets alone. Yeah lets blame it on the immigrants that we don't have enough money for schools. Yet The United States spent $455 billion on the military. We need to open our eyes and see the real problem and not the scapegoats they throw in front of us. - saleem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9well the berlin wall kept e. berliners from escaping to w. berlin, just as the mexican fence keeps mexicans from escaping to usa, so he was right.
- freff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Justice? I think the word you're looking for is 'hypocrisy'. Or in the case of the Palestinians, 'reciprocal animosity' would work too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"Hate to break it to you, but most 'Americans' don't want to pick fruit or build houses or anything that requires actual 'work.' "
Maybe not in your trailer park. - Memitim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ah, "fair price." And therein lies the rub. Rather than dealing with having to pay a wage that will attract a sufficient workforce, many companies would prefer to undermine the economy for the quick buck. If you think that there are jobs that Americans won't take, try getting a job as a garbage collector in many areas. I know around here its a real bitch to find an open position because the pay is damned good. In other words, they are paid a fair wage, that which the market will bear. To support those wages, the price of garbage collection is increased. These companies that choose to circumvent select portions of our economy for the sake of personal profit, i.e. our labor pool, should no longer be allowed to participate in the parts of our economy that they like, i.e. the marketplace.
- Alphateam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I thought it was a headline from The Onion at first.
- gus2074, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The company was in it for the short term profits. Obviously their workforce would have been seriously downsized after the job was finished. But hey at least Wall Street would have been happy.;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7oh yeah, the war on Afghanistan, no wait the war against Iraq, noo that's not it either.. the war on terror. It seems its just us against the world....
- shatters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Because what once took the back breaking work many individuals to attend to a single farm now takes only one man, advanced irrigation systems and a combine.
Because what once took many individuals to build a single car now only takes a handful of individuals and the use advanced robotics.
If by lazy you mean continued education and contributing to an improved standard of living, and then I'll be the first to admit it. - nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Capitalism in action.
- Angelo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I guess someone missed this...
"The Golden State Fence Company's work includes "some" of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico."
Most of the immigrants they had were working inside the USA, only some of them were working on the fence.
"After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when follow up checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally." - toolwerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the reason they're working on the fence even though it stops Mexicans (their own people) from crossing over, is the same reason they came over here in the first place. They need money to eat, live. Its not their fault, its their country's governments fault.
They simply have no choice. come here or die. - Azap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There was always that joke but damn, I didn't actually think...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great to see our government doing something about this.
- microbreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nobody says that
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3making illegal immigrants build thier own obstacle. clever!
- mulling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The illegal workers should be treated with great kindness and respect (but they'll still have to be deported), and the people who hire them should be jailed. It's the only way anything is going to change.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, that makes sense...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Which is why we need some humanitarian immigration policy. Easier said than done, of course.
- anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5All your fence are belong to us?
- GDLaws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dugg for Them Building the Fence and Advocating a Guest Worker Program at the same time...
- Specks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I call you moronic. Simply because I can and you deserve it.
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