Funny you write that you got an earful down in Orange County. So did I last week when I was up in Napa and the Central Valley - and I bet what I heard, from two local farmers, was the diametric opposite of what you heard in Newport Beach. One held up a fancy white peach to me and said: "Today, you can buy this for about 35 cents in the Safeway. If I were paying my fieldworkers a regular minimum wage and benefits to care for and harvest that peach, it would cost you about $1.50. These people ought to think about that before they start raging against the immigration bill."
So is he making an argument for the amnesty bill or against the Emancipation Proclamation.
But wait there's more from our erstwhile Jefferson Davis...
He's right of course, these workers contribute to the wealth and prosperity of the rest of us quite directly - they fill water in our restaurants, wash our cars, trim our lawns, harvest our produce.
You know, I think he meant that without being sarcastic.
What irritates me about this entire debate is how these workers are demonized and abused. It's sickening, really - it brings out the worst in people, and increasingly it brings out sickening racism.
Now would that be "sickening racism" and abuse by the anti-immigration crowd or by the farmer you just quoted furious over the idea of paying somebody minimum wage for back breaking labor.
Finally he reveals the true enemy, and reveals himself to be a true Andrew Sullivan acolyte at the same time....
I wonder if all those Bible-thumpers in the anti-immigration crowd have ever taken out the good book and read Leviticus 19:33-34? It's the Lord speaking, incidentally.
Ah yes, all those "bible-thumpers" who have been, apparently surreptitiously, leading the debate against illegal immigration.
Unless of course he's talking about those other "bible-thumpers" the church sanctuary providers or those Catholic bishops who have been outspoken in their support for an amnesty plan.
Somehow I don't think he means them.
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