Alabama Governor Bentley Tries to Save Face

Seksi Beast!

Well what little face can be saved since he bears a striking resemblance to Fire Marshall Bill and the Crypt Keeper, that is...

After nationwide humiliation with the "papers please" law, he came up with a brilliant solution for the unemployed worker. A proposal to move unemployed workers into jobs being vacated by immigrants. How exciting! You see, the State Legislature didn't think this law through, and now just like in Georgia, crops are dying because there is no one to pick the tomatoes, bananas, and other commodities that farmers depend on to make a living.

"We have to make sure people are aware of the job opportunities," Bentley said at press conference at a Montgomery unemployment office. The new program, called "Work Alabama" is designed to enhance Alabama's existing services for the unemployed by putting an emphasis on connecting job seekers with temporary jobs.

Bentley disputed the assertions by some farmers that most Americans do not want to do the demanding work in agricultural fields. What do they know, they actually OWN THE FARMS!

"There are people today who want these jobs," he said. "I think it is almost insulting to say people in Alabama won't do a hard day's work for a decent day's pay." He's right, people will do a hard day's work for a decent day's pay, the problem is, people don't pay a decent day's pay, which is why they hire illegals.

Bentley said he has also assembled a team including representatives of the agriculture and construction industries to make recommendations on how to fill manual labor jobs in the long term.

Wouldn't it have been thoughtful of the Governor to have this plan already in place on September 1 or even beforehand?

I will venture to say that the links you discover are not going to be that helpful in getting you one of these now "vacated" jobs. If the Governor and politicians behind this absurd law were serious about helping you -- you would have one of these jobs already. How could they have known about these vacated jobs before hand? They would have to look into the future right? That's right, Arizona and Georgia passed similar laws and they obtained similar results like getting sued by the Federal government for Civil Liberties violations and having a mass exodus of immigrant workers causing entire crops to spoil and die in the ground. That all happened BEFORE Alabama decided to go all in on this Jim Crowe for  Hispanics law. Consider that many of these jobs are in rural areas, particularly up on Sand Mountain. OK, if I'm unemployed and living in Birmingham, should I move to Sand Mountain for a month to pick tomatoes for $10 an hour. Figure rent, food, transportation, etc. Or should I commute, and spend a fortune on transportation. It's about 100 miles from Birmingham to Rainsville. Figure about 50 cents a mile for gas, tires and wear and tear on a car. That's 1,000 miles a week -- of $500 in expenses for a job that pays $400 a week. Even if you knock the rate of mileage reimbursement in half, you're then talking about earning $150 a week. Kinda hard to get excited about that.

The Mexicans have been exploited, no doubt. However, they do not pay taxes at least payroll, they pay sales, gas, car, tag, and transportation taxes. They live 10 workers to one dwelling, receive medical care, etc. etc. They also appear to "hang together" and help one another out which is something Americans don't do!

Now the state wants to kick out the Mexicans and exploit its own citizens! The hateful and spiteful attempts to harm others (Mexicans) with no compassion for others is wrecking havoc on the perpetrators. There will be more unintended consequences that will bite the citizens of this state in the proverbial rear end. It's called the Law of Karma. Let's get real here and look at work vs pay and necessary expenses vs extras. Try if you can to put yourself, if only in your imagination, in the shoes of the poor and suffering. This is just what we need here in Alabama are more low paying jobs with no benefits. Thank you Governor Bentley! The serfs are most grateful.

Back in 2006, Bush tried to tackle this Immigration problem by trying to offer immigrants that were already here a legal path to citizenship. The very same people that are jumping up and down screaming about the lack of leadership from Obama and how immigrants are a threat to our national security, wanted to build a fence.

Now, Fire Marshall Bill is confidant that he has done the right thing, so confident in fact that he won't grant interviews and will do anything to change the subject. What's the matter Skeletor, do you want to hide your shame? You must realize that you are the next the George Wallace don't you? That's your historical role, embrace it.

"I don't want to be perceived as the face of illegal immigration bills in the country, and I could be that," Republican Gov. Robert Bentley told The Associated Press on Friday during a rare interview about the law. That's right, hide your shame, I would. Bentley continues to perpetuate the lie that he wants to be remembered not as a governor who cracked down on illegal immigrants but as one who created jobs and solved problems. I can assure you, Bubba, you will be one that will remembered more for causing more problems than solving them.

He said many people who have never visited the state still think it is in the civil rights era.
"It's going to take us a long time to outlive those stereotypes that are out there among people that Alabama is living in the '50s and '60s," Bentley said.  Correction: I was born and raised in this God forsaken state and it IS still stuck in the 50's and 60's. It's not a stereotype and why anyone would want to visit here is beyond me. Oh yeah, they can come visit and see what main attraction? The CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM...Some parts of the interstate still have a confederate flag flying high and proud so what's he talking about? And the fact that one of the State Legislators called Black people "ABORIGINES" on tape and it was part of a trial transcript makes no never mind. Yeah, you're right, Alabama has not one racial problem, it's a beacon of hope, a melting pot of sorts for the nation. This State, Alabama, should be held out as the example of how loving a state should be. *sarcasm* If Jesus came back right now and came to an Alabama suburb, he would be labeled a dead beat liberal hippie and crucified a second time.

Please Hide My Shame

Bentley is a coward, at least Jan Brewer in her gross stupidity has the courage to stand by her convictions no matter how misguided, illogical and constitutionally off base they may be. Bentley is not a leader. Responsible leadership requires actually LEADING, not hiding out or laying low like a common street criminal. Does he even know what "the essence of the law" is? He's never explained it before and he doesn't want to explain anything when it comes to specifics of the law because he doesn't know anything when it comes to specifics. His "taking the high road" (according to him) on this issue is only because he doesn't understand it well enough to explain it to people. Do you believe in this illegal so called law or not? The fact he doesn't see how inconsistent his statements are is very revealing.

And we all know how Governor Bentley likes to brag about how many jobs he is bringing to Alabama. That is, after all, the only issue he ran on in the Republican primary and general election. I wonder if Alabama's unemployment rate has gone down ANY since he took office. He never talks about that, so I assume it has not. Has Alabama lost more jobs than we have gained since Dr. Bentley took office? Yet again Bentley has made it abundantly clear that he cares about sound bites (they must make him feel important and gubernatorial) but not about backing those sound bites up with meaningful action. Who is more mind numbingly stupid Gubanor Drivel hide and find Bentley or Roy, "I don't need the law telling me about the law", Moore.

Governor/ Dr./ Fire Marshall Bill campaigned that he wouldn't take a salary until Alabama was at full employment. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!

The South is the Cradle of Idiocy

Arizona, Georgia, and my inbred hick state Alabama have all jumped on the "ban Hispanics" immigration / Jim Crow Laws bandwagon. What none of these states considered outside of the illegality of racial profiling is the economic consequences of such unconstitutional and hypocritical laws.

Arizona, Georgia, Alabama immigration laws allow cops to ask suspected illegal aliens (what a terrible term) for identification. Since the most useful guide in the Land of Dixie as to who might be in the United States unlawfully is to start with anybody who looks Mexican, police will more often than not use ethnic identifiers as the basis of any profile. And, that, by the way, is the definition of racial profiling. Dixie's law attempts to cover that potentially unconstitutional base by requiring officers to have “due cause” to detain someone before asking for their papers. But I suspect Rihanna or J.Lo (and they're pretty stupid), could see through that one, we aren't talking about shoes or penis photos... if a cop wants to find an excuse to check you out, he has one of many to choose from, whether it be speeding or any of the thousands of misdemeanors on the books, such as spitting on the sidewalk or littering. Jan Brewer, Arizona’s governor, has said that “we need to trust our law enforcement.” But how can we trust them not to profile when the law’s very intent is to detain and deport a class of people defined by their ethnicities? The loopholes just seem big and obvious to me because it doesn’t really make any sense to pull over Caucasians or black people if you’re looking for Mexicans or Guatemalans, right? And please don’t give me that tired argument that they’re not just looking for people from Central America, they’re looking for all unlawful residents ...

The idea of simply asking every Mexican-looking person you come across to present papers is seductive because it assumes that people who are here legally will simply show their passports or green cards or birth certificates (driver’s licenses only prove identity, not citizenship) and go on about their business. People who are here illegally will be stopped, arrested, and possibly jailed or deported. Easy right? Wrong. Let me simply list the ways in which this kind of needle-in-a-haystack policing is dumb, dumb, dumb, and ineffective. (Did I mention dumb?)



Such policing is very, very expensive. As it is, in Dixieland, the TOP 10 in crime, we have a law we can NOT afford to enforce. We are pulling cops and troopers off of the street for real crimes and don't have enough personnel to staff the courthouses. Do you really believe we have enough people to chase down someone who "looks Hispanic"? What are the other costs? Tourism boycotts. Arizona suffered a comical boycott when Major League teams pulled all-star games from Phoenix and San Francisco and Boston had declined to do business with Arizona costing the state millions, even billions in dollars.

What does Alabama have? The Civil Rights Hall of Fame? The 16th Street Baptist Churh? Yeah, let's evoke images of a klansman bombing a church and killing 4 kids. Real positive message to project to the world. Vision Land? Horrible roads? The same work being done on I-65 that's been worked on since I was in college and that was in 98? How about a confederate flag being flown off that same freeway? Bad memories? If anyone is crazy enough to want to visit this god forsaken state we should be grateful they took the chance of risking harm to their brain cells by the air pollution or the overwhelming scent of stupid. What type of hit in tourism can Alabama afford? We already lost City Stages because the morons that funded it couldn't ever get band's people wanted to see and never paid the vendor's on time. To add insult to injury, the had it on the hottest weekend of the year and it always rained...Like I wanted to see Bootsey Collins in 100 degree weather, while some drunk guy named Floyd pees in ally and tell's me how he loves black people...please...

Legislators never think more than 5 minutes in front of their faces... and we don’t get to have it both ways here. Yes, undocumented workers are breaking the law, but our demand for cheap labor has made them an essential part of our economy. Many, if not most, of these people come here to perform the low-wage jobs that Americans don’t want and won’t do. Georgia had a mass exodus of their undocumented workers because of their draconian and half assed law and as a result there agriculture and farm production took a huge hit financially. Why? There undocumented labor pool dried up and they had no one to perform the cheap labor the state farmers had become accustomed to. South Carolina, observing the trend, drafted a similar Dixie Immigration Law, excluding agricultural workers, which is primarily what the function of undocumented workers are since the housing market has dried up. ONLY IN THE SOUTH! How can you talk out of both sides of your mouth and say "we hate illegals, go back where you came from, but please keep picking those bananas and shining my silver, glad my lawn is still under you." Hey fools remember, your scorched earth cut everything policy? You are cutting the teachers, the police? Who are going to check for the "immigration papers?" What the hell are immigration papers for that matter and why must I have them or if the person that is in my car doesn't have them they get arrested? Unless it's Vestavia, they only have 3 jail cells...It would be great for once, just once in my life that the south, one damn southern state wasn't on the top of the nation's laughing stock list, but with this b.s. rolling out with testicular fortitude and no logic, I have a better chance for Beyonce to rule world without her Lion King crusty wig.

This is a federal issue and this must be taken up by CONGRESS and no matter how badly we get upset about illegals using the system, it's not like they just came here yesterday. The government , the Federal government knew about the "Invasion" in the 80's. I remember reading in one of my books in high school that Hispanics would be the largest minority group in the 2000's and that was in 1990 something, so it's not like it's a surprise. All of this xenophobia is manifesting itself in a ridiculous stone stupid law in a ridiculous stone stupid part of the country. Instead of wasting money defending lawsuits, these states should invest in education (which we are sorely lacking), and jobs. Where are the jobs?

Good job Tea Party! This is what you get when you vote in an uneducated, vengeful, white, right wing, nativist, population mass cabal in The Land of Dixie