A perfect Republican company.

[xfundy]

This is hard to read, but reality.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-in-the-bunkhouse.html?_r=0

The Route 1 bus receives him, then resumes its herky-jerky journey through the northeastern Iowa city of Waterloo, population 68,000. He stares into the panoramic blur of ordinary life that was once so foreign to him.

Mr. Berg comes from a different place.

For more than 30 years, he and a few dozen other men with intellectual disabilities — affecting their reasoning and learning — lived in a dot of a place called Atalissa, about 100 miles south of here. Every morning before dawn, they were sent to eviscerate turkeys at a processing plant, in return for food, lodging, the occasional diversion and $65 a month. For more than 30 years.

Their supervisors never received specialized training; never tapped into Iowa’s social service system; never gave the men the choices in life granted by decades of advancement in disability civil rights. Increasingly neglected and abused, the men remained in heartland servitude for most of their adult lives.

[OLDMDDEM]

1. I have read this with a saddened heart

These poor people didn't know any better. Yet, business took full advantage of that fact and made a buck off of them. There was no regulation of this business, otherwise this would have never happened. I have heard many times that business should be able to regulate themselves, and that there are too many regulations. Business cannot make an honest buck with all the regulations the government has put on them.

That's a load of crap. This has got to stop. I'm sure there are more stories out there just like this one. How sick can a business owner be to take advantage of people like this and hold their head high?

[rafeh1]

2. on the other hand

These guys got a chance to work rather than sit at home w desparate parents.