Reply #49: That's a great story, but again, you're obviously responding [View All]

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to something other than what I have written here. Frankly, all you've done here tonight is repost the same boilerplate you've been throwing up in threads on this topic for as long as I can remember.

I have no problem feeling solidarity with these people. I spent a summer volunteering in a migrant ed program in northern California a few years back, in a place where farm workers live much like Mississippi sharecroppers circa 1930, and I have borrowed myself into a lifetime of debt to get a PhD so that I could teach--by choice--in a community college, where many blue-collar students get their only shot at an education. I'll put my lefty credentials up against those of anyone on this board.

My point, as I have posted numerous times on this thread, is that bringing in cheap labor pushes down the wages of people who are barely managing to live as it is. We can either acknowledge that or ignore it, but it's true either way.