Sylvia Allen nonsense

[beannd]

I've received several emails at work today all referencing what AZ State Senator Sylvia Allen says about SB 1070 -

http://tucsoncitizen.com/the-cholla-jumps/2010/05/01/state-senator-sylvia-allen-responds-to-sb1070/

All I really know about Sylvia Allen is that she believes the world is 6,000 years old.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/06/arizona-is-6000-years-old/

I could really use some help responding to coworkers who have sent me Sylvia Allen's nonsense.


Thanks.

[asjr]

1. Silly Allen should write a book and cash

in a la Sarah Palin. It seems stupidity really makes money these days.

[blogslut]

2. Why respond?

Frankly, if my co-workers were filling my inbox with political blah, blah, I would ask them to knock it off.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. Will border enforcement solve the problem?

I think not.

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=583_0_4_0

Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world's largest poultry processors, was indicted December 19, 2001, charged with 36 counts of recruiting illegal workers from Mexico and transporting them to several of Tyson's 57 poultry processing plants in the Midwest and South. According to the indictment, developed over 2.5 years of undercover work, Tyson managers arranged with smugglers to pick up workers just inside the US border, and then organized transportation for them from the border to its plants. Tyson managers paid the smugglers $100 to $200 a worker in "recruitment fees." (The migrants also paid the smugglers a fee).


Tyson has 120,000 employees, annual sales of $11 billion, and accounts for 23 percent of the chicken market. IBP accounts for 27 percent of the US beef market and 18 percent of the pork market. Tyson has 26 union agreements; IBP has 35 union agreements. Total employment in the US meat and poultry processing industry is 400,000.

Hazardous jobs paying low wages need cheap labor. It's a supply and demand thing, isn't it?

Money makes the world go around.