The National Agricultural Workers Survey - read this and then complain about Colbert

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/report/ch3.cfm

Summary of Findings

Farm workers had low individual earnings from farm work; the median income from farm work was between $2,500 and $5,000. Three-fourths earned less than $10,000 annually.

Only one-fourth of the farm workers had non farm work earnings. The median personal income from farm work and other work sources combined was between $5,000 and $7,500.

Few farm workers had assets. About half (49%) owned a vehicle and about one-third owned or were buying a house or trailer in the United States.

Farm worker households also had low family incomes. The median was between $7,500 and $10,000, and over three-fifths of farm worker households were in poverty.

Despite pervasive poverty among farm workers, few used social insurance or social service programs.

[liberal N proud]

1. The only ones complaining about Colbert are the ones who profit

from the migrant workers and their paid minions, the M$M.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. Bullshit. The exploiters probably loved it.

He had nary a word of criticism for them and he carried their water.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. I'm still going to criticize Colbert.

He started out his testimony by mocking unemployed Americans for not showing up for farm jobs. Then he pushed cheap labor corporate propaganda horseshit about how we're losing farms to Mexico because the poor dear farm owners can't get their slave labor as easily as they used to. His solution to exploitation and abuse of workers is "more visas", as if that would really make the greedy sociopathic shitbags who exploit and abuse workers stop doing it (legal guest worker programs are rife with worker abuse). He clearly knows very little about the issue despite having done a few hours of poverty tourism.

Not to mention practically handing the Repukes an American flag to wrap themselves in as they bleated about American workers being insulted and disparaged by "elitists".

[ThomasQED]

4. OK

Colbert's ideas on the threats posed by bears are ludicrous.