Schwarzenegger vetoes farmworker overtime bill

Florez said of the actions in California and Arizona. "Two governors, with the stroke of their pens, have kind of taken us back to the segregationist South. It's a shameful kind of veto."

When will the people who keep saying there is racial discrimination quit bringing it up? They are the ones that keep it in play and won't let it die. If they would quit playing "the race card" all the time maybe it would go away - Noooooo they keep bringing it up time & time again. How can we become a society of equals if every time you turn around someone plays that card. If we were playing a poker game that person would be "suspect" of cheating.

Please, it is not a society of equals, if you just happen to read some of the posts even here you will see that this society is full of racists. Farm workers are predominantly hispanic or other minority. Do you think it is fair that they toil out in 90 to 100 degree weather for 10 hours and do not get overtime? Ranchers say it will hurt them and that they will simply get more workers, well any business owner would do the same thing, like you said, why not be a society of equals and have these workers receive the same benefits you and I have?

Please wrote:

Florez said of the actions in California and Arizona. "Two governors, with the stroke of their pens, have kind of taken us back to the segregationist South. It's a shameful kind of veto."
When will the people who keep saying there is racial discrimination quit bringing it up? They are the ones that keep it in play and won't let it die. If they would quit playing "the race card" all the time maybe it would go away - Noooooo they keep bringing it up time & time again. How can we become a society of equals if every time you turn around someone plays that card. If we were playing a poker game that person would be "suspect" of cheating.

Sometime people go around knocking homosexuality when in fact they are really in denial about their own sexuality it's kinda like the same thing you are doing here. Racism is a fact of life and I suspect you yourself are one to have such denial over it's existence. Do some research and you maybe enlightened. http://www.globalissues.org/article/165/racis...

Anybody who thinks this law was a good idea, has never been anywhere near a farm.

NO farm workers want this law. NONE. They ALL would have been cut to 30-40 hour weeks, and the farmers would bring on a second crew. The law would do absolutely nothing but punish the people it was trying to help.

Fired wrote:

Please, it is not a society of equals, if you just happen to read some of the posts even here you will see that this society is full of racists. Farm workers are predominantly hispanic or other minority. Do you think it is fair that they toil out in 90 to 100 degree weather for 10 hours and do not get overtime? Ranchers say it will hurt them and that they will simply get more workers, well any business owner would do the same thing, like you said, why not be a society of equals and have these workers receive the same benefits you and I have?

si, i think they should be paid as much as school teachers...

Do you think it is fair that they toil out in 90 to 100 degree weather for 10 hours while the teachers set on their ***** and dumb our kids down to third world

i think since they pick lettuce in the state they should be state workers

they should get job secuity, health care, and a pension

why not be a society of equals and have these workers receive the same benefits you and I have?

Joe wrote:

Anybody who thinks this law was a good idea, has never been anywhere near a farm.
NO farm workers want this law. NONE. They ALL would have been cut to 30-40 hour weeks, and the farmers would bring on a second crew. The law would do absolutely nothing but punish the people it was trying to help.

Think about it: one of the primary reasons illegal aliens put up with this is due to their status. They'd rather scavenge for crumbs than stay in their own country, con nada.

Shame on you, Arnold. Everyone deserves, at least, overtime when they work over forty hours in a week. Whassa matta with you? Oh, I forgot, you supposedly aren't getting paid, right? You can afford not to get paid, though, because you get paid in so many other ways, don't you? The old trick of Presidents and other such politicians, making money on the side. Maybe instead of voting for you, I should have vetoed (pun intended).

Anyway, I'm sure he would expect the same, if he were a farmworker, right? Perhaps, he needs to enter into the twilight zone, where he suddenly wakes up to find himself working in the fields, being practically slave driven in the hot, hot sun.