Networks Focus on Victims as They Paint ‘Severe’ Alabama Law as ‘Arizona on Steroids’
Matching the pattern set in coverage of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, the broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday night all framed their stories on Alabama’s “severe” new law around its victims, with ABC anchor Diane Sawyer and NBC anchor Brian Williams both describing it as “Arizona on steroids.” They didn’t mean it as a compliment. Sawyer mischaracterized it as an “anti-immigration law.”
ABC was the most one-sided, with reporter Steve Osunsami not mentioning a reason for the new law until his very last sentence. Instead, Osunsami intoned, “Across Alabama today, demonstrators were furious, calling this the Arizona law with an Alabama twist,” before showing a man who charged that “it says that our government promotes racism.”
Osunsami proceeded to empathize and tout some high school students: “Some of them are student athletes and class officers and, yes, some are undocumented. They told me they now come to school in fear.” He highlighted a parent who is moving to California because of the law, but the mother despaired “we’re people, we’re humans.”
Brian Williams set up NBC’s story by citing “a law that goes so far as to tell elementary schools to investigate their kids. One commentator today called this ‘Arizona on steroids.’”
Reporter Kerry Sanders connected the new law to Alabama’s racist/segregationist history. Over black and white video of police attacking a crowd Sanders asserted: “This Mexican-American, Duce Lavera, says in this Southern state with its ugly history she sees something else in the law.” The woman charged: “I think it's just hate. It's not really about jobs.”
CBS provided the only story approaching balance, but reporter Mark Strassmann still found a farmer upset about losing his workers who hyperbolically claimed: “You want to get rid of illegal immigrants, quit eating. And that's for everybody nationwide. If you want to get rid of them, quit eating. That will solve the problem.”
Sawyer’s introduction on World News conveyed quite an ominous picture:
And now, we turn to the toughest anti-immigration law in America that went into effect today in Alabama, a crackdown so severe it's been described as the Arizona law on steroids. Police have broad new powers to stop and detain anyone they deem suspicious and even use their children in classrooms to track them down.
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The stories on the Thursday, September 29 newscasts, transcripts provided by the MRC’s Brad Wilmouth who corrected the closed-captioning against the video:
ABC’s World News:
DIANE SAWYER: And now, we turn to the toughest anti-immigration law in America that went into effect today in Alabama, a crackdown so severe it's been described as the Arizona law on steroids. Police have broad new powers to stop and detain anyone they deem suspicious and even use their children in classrooms to track them down. ABC's Steve Osunsami
is in Birmingham tonight.
CLIP OF PROTESTERS: This is what democracy looks like!
STEVE OSUNSAMI: Across Alabama today, demonstrators were furious, calling this the Arizona law with an Alabama twist.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: To me, it says that our government promotes racism.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: We have to move. We have to leave everything.
OSUNSAMI: It was approved by the state legislature and widely backed by voters here. The police can check for papers, detain undocumented residents without bail, and the public schools are now forced to share with authorities the citizenship status of all newly enrolled students.
GOVERNOR ROBERT BENTLEY (R-AL): We have the strongest immigration law in this country.
OSUNSAMI: At Center Point High in Birmingham, principal Van Phillips says several students came to him this morning, worried he was going to kick them out.
VAN PHILLIPS, PRINCIPAL OF CENTER POINT HIGH SCHOOL: I'm not INS. It's not my job to police who's legal, who's illegal.
OSUNSAMI: Some of them are student athletes and class officers and, yes, some are undocumented. They told me they now come to school in fear.
UNIDENTIFIED TEENAGE GIRL: I came to school thinking, are they going to pull me out of class? Are they going to ask me questions?
UNIDENTIFIED TEENAGE BOY: They're saying we can't have the same rights as citizens because they're not citizens, but I really want to know what's the real definition of citizen?
OSUNSAMI: Educators here say they've been put in a tough spot, and that under the law, all they plan to do is report information.
PHIL HAMMONDS, SUPERINTENDENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: We are turning no one away. No one is being asked to withdraw.
OSUNSAMI: We talked with one parent who pulled her nephew out of school today anyway. She's undocumented and didn't want to be identified. Tomorrow, they're moving to California.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: We don't want to move, but this thing is, we can do nothing about it. We're people, we're humans, I don't know.
OSUNSAMI: These new rules for the schools are just one part of this law, and this law didn't just come out of thin air. There are many people across this state who believe, for example, that jobs are being lost to people who are here illegally.
CBS Evening News:
SCOTT PELLEY, IN OPENING TEASER: Tonight, the toughest immigration law in the country. It went into effect in Alabama today. The governor says the state can't live with illegal immigrants. Farmers worry they can't live without them.
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PELLEY: Good evening. Alabama's tough new immigration law went into effect today, surviving for now a challenge from the Obama administration and others. The law will allow officials to check the immigration status of students in public schools and give the police new powers to determine whether someone is in the country illegally. A federal judge yesterday upheld those key provisions of the law. Mark Strassmann is in Alabama with more about this new law and its impact.
MARK STRASSMANN: Under Alabama's new immigration law, beginning today, police can question and detain suspected illegal immigrants and hold them without bond. The law's supporters complain the 60,000 people here illegally cost Alabama taxpayers a quarter billion dollars a year in schools and social services, and Governor Robert Bentley promises enforcement will begin right away.
GOVERNOR ROBERT BENTLEY (R-AL): We've just passed a law that conforms with federal law, and we will see what happens. We expect them to do their job now, and we'll see if they're going to do it.
STRASSMANN: But when only five pickers showed up this morning to harvest his sweet potatoes, farmer Keith Smith saw possible ruin, the loss of his half million dollar crop.Story Continues Below Ad ↓
KEITH SMITH, FARMER: They're running scared because of this new law.
STRASSMANN: And you're in trouble.
SMITH: I'm in trouble, bad trouble.
STRASSMANN: Smith's 200 acres need 20 pickers, mostly Mexican nationals.
SMITH: There's not enough documented people here to supply that work force.
STRASSMANN: Most of your workers are here illegally.
SMITH: Sure, if they got documentation, they've got a better job than working for me.
STRASSMANN: Fernando Aldaman, a Mexican national, has worked Smith's farm since 1992. Everybody's just scared.
FERNANDO ALDAMAN, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT: Yeah.
STRASSMANN: Are you here legally? No?
ALDAMAN: No.
STRASSMANN: So are you scared?
ALDAMAN: Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared, you know.
STRASSMANN: Smith's pickers make about $100 a day. He supports immigration laws, just not this one that threatens his third-generation family farm.
SMITH: You want to get rid of illegal immigrants, quit eating. And that's for everybody nationwide. If you want to get rid of them, quit eating. That will solve the problem.
STRASSMANN: Scott, Governor Bentley says Alabama's new law is not about racial profiling, and that only people suspected of breaking a law will be asked for their immigration papers.
PELLEY: Mark, I wonder about this provision that allows officials to check the immigration status of students in public schools. Has there been any reaction to that?
STRASSMANN: Well, put it this way, Scott, Alabama spends an estimated $160 million a year educating the children of illegal immigrants. We've had reports locally around here that some of those families today worried either kept their children home or pulled them out of school altogether.
NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS, IN OPENING TEASER: Crackdown: The toughest new immigration law in America, even questioning the status of school children. Tonight, opponents say they'll fight it.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS: Now we go to Alabama where a federal judge has upheld the toughest immigration law in the country, a law that goes so far as to tell elementary schools to investigate their kids. One commentator today called this "Arizona on steroids" in terms of immigration. Opponents of this law are promising a fight. NBC's Kerry Sanders in Birmingham, Alabama, for us tonight. Kerry, good evening.
KERRY SANDERS: Good evening, Brian. The state immigration law is now on the books here, but those who will have to enforce it are yet to figure out just how they'll do that. Today, police in Alabama have new power, teachers have new responsibilities - to check people's birth certificates and to enforce what, until now, was federal immigration law. Not everyone welcomes the new authority.
LANCE HYCHE, ALABAMA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: We don't believe that teachers in Alabama public schools should be converted to immigration officers. It's not our job to police the children that come to public school every day. It's our job to teach.
SANDERS: It's estimated among Alabama's 4.7 million citizens, more than 120,000 are here illegally. The cost to taxpayers, says Alabama's Republican Governor, $290 million.
GOVERNOR ROBERT BENTLEY (R-AL): It would not have been necessary to address this problem if the federal government would have done its job and enforced the laws dealing with this problem.
SANDERS: 39-year-old Amanda says she left El Salvador and illegally entered the U.S. four years ago. In Alabama she cleans houses and babysits.
AMANDA, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, THROUGH TRANSLATOR: I'm afraid that I'll go to work and I don't know if I'll ever return to my house.
SANDERS: And that's the goal, in part, say Alabama lawmakers, to scare undocumented immigrants like Amanda so she effectively deports herself.
STATE SENATOR SCOTT BEASON (R-AL): And that's what it's about, trying to get the illegal work force to move out and let Alabamans plug into those jobs.
SANDERS: But Alabama's farmers fear millions of dollars in losses because Americans won't take jobs picking crops. This Mexican-American, Duce Lavera, says in this Southern state with its ugly history she sees something else in the law.
DULCE LAVERA, MEXICAN-AMERICAN: I think it's just hate. It's not really about jobs.
SANDERS: Alabama now joins four other states with similar state immigration laws.
HOWARD SIMON, ACLU: This is too delicious an issue for politicians not to exploit. And that is what's going on. Exploiting the public's fear that jobs are being taken away, the borders are being overrun.
SANDERS: Officials in Alabama say no roadblocks or round-ups are planned, but school officials say they will begin implementing this law by checking the birth certificates of new students enrolling in schools here.
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Comments
Aren't we all so tired of the compassionate
Submitted by dr-go on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 7:47am.
using hate and racism to bully the silent majority into acquiescing to those who would obey only the laws they thought worthwhile in expanding their voting base?
"compassionate"?
Submitted by Huapakechi on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:23am.
The liberal agenda has no compassion. Examine the history. Start with the genocide against the Kulaks.
The pattern currently in vogue is to foment discord and then exploit economic, racial, or educational differences to attain their goals.
The current administration has a pattern of ignoring the enforcement of laws that do not give them political advantage (immigration laws) and using obscure laws enforced capriciously to target those they consider their enemies (environmental regulation and the raids on Gibson Guitar).
Now I'm curious
Submitted by mandrake on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:42am.
"raids on Gibson Guitar"? I must have had my head buried in the snow as usual. What does that mean?
Also, as everyone knows, all the coolest players play Fenders.
Bing is your friend, so is Google.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:15am.
But, just for you, to bring you up to speed. And, it seems that the owners of Fender are Obama supporters, so they have no fears from the "good" people at Fish and Wildlife.
You didn't have your head
Submitted by ant on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:29am.
You didn't have your head buried, the press just sees fit to bury stories it doesn't want you to know.
The Simple Fact is that Nobody Believes Them Anymore
Submitted by scottyusmc on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:00am.
These network idiots can spin their tale all they want... The basic facts are that they are reporting to a diminishing audience. Most thinking Americans treat every word they utter with skepticism and a clear understanding that they are reporting from a singular point of view that only supports one ideological perspective. They are not believed!!! They know this so they are becoming even more desperate as their influence fades!!!
The fact that "news"
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:09am.
The fact that "news" organizations frame or play their stories in a certain way means the "journalism" is simply activism by another name.
illegals
Submitted by kinijane on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:22am.
What part of "illegal" do not people understand? We are a supposed to be a country
of laws, yet those same laws that apply to most of us are waived for illegals, still we
are asked to pay for their livelihood. That farmer that needs workers, hire some of those
that are on "welfare," quit paying slave wages under the table.
They should all be given 3 months to get their affairs in order, and
then go home, after 3 months, load them up and take them home.
Hoooray! for Al.
Take the welfare checks away!
Submitted by Firmworm on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:47am.
Take the welfare checks away! Hunger is a great incentive for cheap labor.
You may be on to something
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:29am.
You may be on to something there! I remember the late Danny Thomas, talking about the Great Depression, and how the first question asked by friends who hadn't seen in other in some time was "Are you working?"
No work was considered demeaning. Now we have liberals who claim that making welfare recipients do some work as a condition of receiving their check is demeaning.
When the feds go broke and
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:30am.
When the feds go broke and the welfare checks no longer arrive in the black districts, the riots will begin. Interesting enough is the first place blacks would attack is white liberals whom live in the cities. The conservatives by and large live in the rural areas or outside of cities, we can watch the melee from afar. White liberals will get first hand what occurs when they enslave someone and they rebel.
hard work is better than no work
Submitted by mom_rox on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:06pm.
Remember the long lines at the CBC's job fair in Atlanta (and other metropolitan locations)?
I'd like to the see the farmers set up a booth that say's, "We're Hiring", and see how many job applicants they get.
More of the same
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:22am.
We (if we have been paying attention) have all seen the reports and articles applauding the demise of the white race as the dominant one in America and praising the blending of races (i.e. blending white OUT of the picture).
This is just more of that push.
More 'white guilt' and anti-white racism.
If the snail darter was in as much danger of being wiped out as the white race is, the left would be up in arms demanding the government protect it.
If the black race was in as much danger of being wiped out as the white race is, the left would be up in arms demanding the government protect it.
If the brown race was in as much danger of being wiped out as the white race is, the left would be up in arms demanding the government protect it.
What, no lawsuits
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:05am.
Where is Eric Holder and his band of thugs. Why are they not suing Alabam after the disgraceful displeasure in Az?
Guess they DID see the polls after all.
The press considers itself
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:23am.
The press considers itself untouchable in the words they use. eventually they will push Americans into a corner the only way we come out is by swinging. I just cannot picture the liberals and the press handling a situation which becomes physical.
Osunsami looks a little nervous there.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:30am.
.
SoL, I mentioned in the thread on
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:52am.
this "reporter's" coverage of the Troy Davis execution, he's not a very good reporter. I watched him while he was at WOOD TV and he was bad. He always managed to interview the mother of the murderer, or rapist, never the victim or their family. Or he managed to shove a mic in someone's face at a funeral, asking what they thought of what happened to the victim.
He may have been one of the first to run with the "he was just getting his life turned around" memes about the perp. But, all in all, he was just an average, that is, mediocre, reporter who got by because he was one of the first non-white hires for in-the-field reporting. So, his take on this story is no surprise.
UpNorth:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:59am.
I've seen this guy before and I know exactly what you're saying - I think he's got a long way to go before even approaching mediocre.
The thing that amazes me
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:04am.
is that ABC even picks up his stories. They've got a bunch of reporters who've achieved mediocrity, why go for someone who hasn't gotten there yet.
I think we guess what the #1 reason is.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:16am.
#2 is also obvious.
Stop eating and we solve the
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:36am.
Stop eating and we solve the food stamp give away. Or arrest them all and put them to work serving their sentences on prison lettuce farms.
the money quote
Submitted by mom_rox on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:40am.
GOVERNOR ROBERT BENTLEY (R-AL): "It would not have been necessary to address this problem if the federal government would have done its job and enforced the laws dealing with this problem."
Just like actions have consequences, inaction also has consequences.
How could it be racist?
Submitted by notinstl on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:44am.
Latino's are caucasian...
$100 a Day??
Submitted by Joe W. on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:45am.
In Alabama, $100 a day is pretty damned good money. Deport the illegals per Federal Law, and I would bet Mr. Smith will have little problem finding legal workers.
It is not just about the pay.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:17pm.
Sorry. But something rational does need to be done about the farmer problem.
Who here is willing to quit their job, travel hundreds or thousands of miles, for a low paying job that only lasts a few months, and then travel back home and hope they can get their regular job back or another job that does not mind having you disappear for a few months out of the year.
Harvest season for most crops is only a few months in the fall. Farmers don't need help planting most crops. Or fertilizing, or spraying for insects. It is the few months of the harvest season. Then you need to be willing to pack up and move on to some other crop that does not have the same harvest season or return home.
There is a reason they are called migrant farm workers.
We need to have a rational immigration program that will allow migrant workers to be able to temporarily work in this country.
We have a rational
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:18pm.
We have a rational immigration program. Workers don't have to be migrants or temporary. Also different crops are harvested at different times. My mom when she went homeless did the harvest routine for a while.
You really need to understand how the people who are wanderers think and live.
The H2-A agricultural Visa is temporary.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:24am.
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H2 visas are intended for unskilled or skilled laborers (not professional or degreed employees) to work in the U.S. on a temporary or seasonal basis.
H2 visas were initiated in 1943 with the importation of workers to fill a labor shortage in the sugar cane industry. The first workers in the program came from the Bahamas to be cane cutters. The program changed significantly in the 1980s with the division of H2 visas into two categories, which are still in place today: H2A - agricultural workers (planting and harvesting crops) H2B - non-agricultural workers (e.g., landscaping, construction, forestry-planting or cutting, hotel cleaning staff)
H2B visas are subject to an annual limit set by Congress. This cap is currently 66,000 workers per year. H2A visas are not limited.
http://monterrey.usconsulate.gov/h2_visa.html
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I hear about problems with the program now and then.
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“It is the right policy of the United States to require that only those who are legally eligible to work in this country should be given U.S. jobs. But since there haven’t been—for several years—enough legal workers in the U.S. to meet the demand of U.S. agricultural employers, it is the responsibility of the administration and Congress to authorize a useful program that enables capable, dependable and willing employees to come to the U.S. temporarily to do the jobs that domestic workers don’t want,” said Stallman. “This final H-2A rule will only compound existing labor shortages. It is not the program needed by America’s farmers and ranchers. By finalizing this rule, the administration has failed U.S. agricultural employers. Its claims of needed worker protections as justification for the new rule are unfounded and an affront to America’s farmers and ranchers.”
http://npaper-wehaa.com/wlj/2010/02/19/s1/#?article=768212
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Farm Owners Tell Congress H2A Visa Program Is 'Broken'
http://www.law360.com/articles/271080/farm-owners-tell-congress-h2a-visa...
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Senator Lugar Co-Sponsors Bill to Relieve Labor Crisis in Agriculture
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=5470c373-...
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lawsuits Against EmployersAbound in H2-A
Farmers across the U.S. have risked labor short-ages rather than use the H2-A program because ofthe enormous expense and because Legal Services,representing foreign workers, frequently sues U.S.farmers under the H2-A program. These law suitsgenerally continue for years.Whether or not the U.S. farmer wins the lawsuit, their legal fees may be in excess of $] 00,000even if the amount the foreign nationals are suingfor is nominal. This coerces the farmer, if finan-cially able, into throwing money at the foreignnationals just to make the law suit go away. LegalServices knows this and uses it to leverage thefarmer into a settlement.
http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/turfn/articles/2006marapr74.pdf
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Every time the MSM
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:47am.
reports on something it offers viewers more reasons to ignore and despise them. Every broadcast it buries whatever shards of integrity that it may have had left which by now is getting pretty sparse descending further.
My take on Diane Sawyer's compassion
Submitted by 4Deuce on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:57am.
My take on Diane Sawyer's "compassion" for these poor undocumented humans? It means she doesn't want to have to pay the real cost of a documented house maid, chauffer and nanny. If illegals are taken away from her ,she'll have to pay at least minimum wage, Social Security and also provide comprehensive health care coverage for all those house workers now bring her her wine and cheese and hanging up the coats of her elitist party guests - whose names have all been drawn from the DNC and Obama in 2012 campaign contributor lists.
Yes Diane, we all feel your "compassion" and we know your reasons for it.
speaking of minimum wage
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:42am.
Washington State will be raising its minimum wage (yet again) to +$9/hr - the highest in the country.
Min Wage
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 2:36pm.
Any feedback from business owners? With that kind of wage they will also have the absolute minimum of employees. Does this really help teens/college students? Oh yeah, I forgot the compassionate libs want it to be a "living wage" not an entry level job while you get more training or education. I predict $9 burgers at McDonalds.
Yes
Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 11:22am.
small business owners are having a fit. I think the morning newsperson quoted an employee (paraphrasing) "This 40 cents an hour is important, screw the consequences". No one seems to get that this is going to impact the price of goods. This is coupled with the city of Seattle's mandatory sick leave imposed on business owners with 15 or more employees. BUT we are a Sanctuary city like SF.
More Americans have died at
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:07am.
More Americans have died at the hands of illegals than there are fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Where is the compassion for the innocent people who get raped, murdered, kidnapped? What about those that are vitims of fraud, ID theft, assault, car theft of burglary? Why is there no concern for those victims by the MSM?
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims_2.html
These victims and their stories are completely ignored by Diane Sawyer and the rest of those left-wing hacks just so they can score points with the rest of the left-wing establishment and to not appear "racist" but trust me, they are just as guilty for these crimes and are enablers for these criminals.
Appearing regularly in my little town's police blotter:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:26am.
"___________ ___________ ____________ (insert long Hispanic name) arrested for DUI. Other charges included speeding, no driver's license, unlicensed vehicle, unsafe vehicle, no insurance, heroin, needles, 9 people in 5-passenger vehicle."
I'm sure it's the same where Ms. Sawyer lives. /s
I like how the press plays up
Submitted by ant on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:30am.
I like how the press plays up the illegals "fear". Fear of what? Going home?
....."Alabama's farmers fear
Submitted by ThePickle on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:56am.
....."Alabama's farmers fear millions of dollars in losses because Americans won't take jobs picking crops." ...... for the lousy wages the farmers want to pay to have this work done.
Using the 100 dollar a day amount given in the article and the current withholding and exemptions for a family of four, workers can expect to receive a monthly “take home” wage of approximately 1450.00 dollars.
Assuming a 22 day work month and 8 hour days, that’s about 8.25 an hour.
That is a whopping 1.00 dollar an hour over the Federal Minimum wage.
That’s with no Medical benefits or Retirement plan.
If this guy was a Wal-Mart, the Libs would be picketing him and vilifying him as a heartless bastard and a modern day “slave driver”.
The workers will most likely
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:22pm.
The workers will most likely be paid as contract labor and they will be responsible for their own taxes and SS.
Way to go...
Submitted by stage9 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:20pm.
..on national tv Smith and admit that you are aiding and abetting illegal activity. So, you will support illegal activity so long as it benefits you, not because principally it's illegal?
It's really good to know that many folks are morally conscious only when there is some personal advantage to it.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
While I watched this
Submitted by mang on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:36pm.
While I watched this newscast, for a minute I was afraid they were going to break into an episode of "What Would You Do?". I immediately noticed the "anti-immigration" line she used. Absolutely incredible these people are.