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The pending farmworker amnesty (MEANING HISPANOLA) drafted by Democrats and business groups is likely to block the development and use of PATENTED FARM EQUIPMENT
Posted by: TOTALLY UN-AMERICAN ()
Date: December 04, 2019 02:29PM


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Posted by: rfge ()
Date: December 04, 2019 02:31PM

the US PATENT system was an agreement with THE DUTCH during the beginning of the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

usa had made ssome innovative farming machines (ie, cotton gin - bye bye cotton pickers)

HOWEVER MANY COPIED DUTCH designs who at the time had the highest $sales in USA of farming machinery - and they were suing

THE PATENT SYSTEM WAS CREATED TO RESOLVE THE DISPUTE

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Posted by: ftgrtr ()
Date: December 04, 2019 03:05PM

obviously this is corrupt nancy pelosi trying to KILL USA FARMS (she has investments in Goya spain) and kill USA farming equipment

THE PATENT SYSTEM became a corrupt organization (now issuing more patents to asians than anyone else - but asians in return never respect patents)

the problem was the original work was done between the Dutch and USA _ONLY_ for it's original purupose - to prevent americans from making dutch equipment. the law stated if the dutch wanted to use copied american equipment in holland it was not illegal, and americans could use un-patented dutch equipment too (which there was none of significant)

WHAT THAT MEANS IS ONLY BIG COMPANIES CAN USE IT - becasue there are roughly 2,000 countries and each patent costs ~ $2,000 to file: no one can DO it except GE or CHINA or JAPAN. also: the system has NO ENFORCEMENT, which means you have to pay to have it enforced and again: only the giants can afford to pay to enforce


but a huge hole is that not all of these 2,000 countries signed up. SO CHINA MAKES USA PATENTED GOODS and ships it to IRAN without penalty - OFTEN TO USA (dumping on the market which also is illegal). CHINA SAYS IT NEVER AGREED TO ANY EURO AGREEMENTS.



NEXT THING happened was the patent system became a IN DEBT GOVERNMENT AGENCY eager to JUSTIFY it's existence. it became a house of mass filing for large companies

AS A RESULT, IF A CHILD MAKES A BLINKING LED FROM RADIO SHAK COMPONENTS AND TRIES TO SELL IT HE OR SHE IS BREAKING THE LAW: THERE ARE 50 PATENTS ON MAKING AN LED BLINK

!!!!!!! asians of course are filing any auto patents they can because "ford got in early and had all the important ones", so they can sue american companies who use made in china parts !!!!!!!!!

MEANWHILE - THE PATENT SYSTEM WAS NOT MEANT TO BRING US BACK TO THE STONE AGES AND ALLOW POLITICIANS TO BETRAY THE COUNTRY - refuse to hire citizens at fair wage and bring in an army of illegal aliens (sworn to military allegiance in their own country who the politicians have deals with)

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Posted by: rgter3e ()
Date: December 04, 2019 03:07PM


THE PATENT SYSTEM: it's become a near global declaration by the rich to steal but not be stolen from, to prevent any small innovation (while refusing to innovate and outsourcing)


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Date: December 05, 2019 02:52PM

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Date: December 06, 2019 02:00AM

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Date: December 07, 2019 01:44AM

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Date: December 07, 2019 07:09PM

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Date: December 09, 2019 01:56AM

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Date: December 09, 2019 04:59PM

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Date: December 11, 2019 01:07AM

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Date: December 12, 2019 01:34AM

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Date: December 12, 2019 01:35AM

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Date: December 13, 2019 05:12PM

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Date: December 15, 2019 05:04PM

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Date: December 18, 2019 03:55PM

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Date: December 21, 2019 03:14PM

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Date: December 24, 2019 02:14PM

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Date: December 25, 2019 08:15AM

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Date: December 27, 2019 09:29PM

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Date: December 31, 2019 08:06PM

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Date: January 05, 2020 06:30PM

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Date: January 09, 2020 07:09PM

Republicans Invite “Guest Workers” To Further Exploitation

A new bill proposed by the GOP attempts to revise H-2A visas and make massive cuts to salaries, workers’ right to housing, and other rights.

Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has presented the Agricultural Guestworkers Act in an attempt to reform the system that regulates the H-2A visa for agricultural workers. This will also affect H-2B visas issued to temporary non-agricultural workers. A total of more than 132 thousand workers will be affected.

The bill includes dramatic salary cuts, the elimination of the employer’s obligation to pay for worker’s housing, and workers’ right to sue their bosses. It was approved last Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee in a vote of 17 to 16 and will now be sent to the House and the Senate.

The new H-2C visa, the proposed replacement for the H-2A, would extend the number of visas granted from 66 thousand to 450 thousand. Libertarian groups who have long decried government intervention in “the free market,” such as the CATO Institute and the Immigration Center for Global Liberty, have backed the bill.

Democrats in the House, however, have come out against the bill, saying they have been fighting for a version of immigration reform that offers permanent-resident status for at least some farm workers and that this bill is actually worse than prior proposals. Indeed, it does allow employers to exploit workers with the new visa by removing them from the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

John Conyers Jr., House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, points out that “the current wage system for farmworkers — the ‘Adverse Effect Wage Rate’ — [has] a wage floor of 115% of the Federal minimum wage — or $8.34 an hour,” but that the new legislation, “will result in wage decreases of up to $5.00 per hour for farmworkers in certain parts of the country.”

The farming fields of the U.S. are seen as the only option by thousands of unemployed Mexicans and Central Americans who are unable to find a job in their home countries and are forced by their lack of employment and poor living conditions to emigrate. It’s hardly a secret that that life is hell in the fields, with 12-hour workdays and deaths due to working conditions.

The GOP wants to pass the Agricultural Guestworkers Act and take advantage of the need for farming jobs because it will allow them to expand low-cost production at the expense of the workers. The changes allow employers to pay poverty wages and remove worker protections, relying on the fact that the increase in competition will create a surplus labor force that will make workers more easily replaceable.

The bosses already exploit the most impoverished workers of countries south of the border through poverty wages even as they make millions in profits. They are now trying to take advantage of a reactionary political environment and the criminalization faced by migrant workers. These opportunities, incited by Trump, have encouraged them to propose a bill with the sole aim of multiplying their profits at the cost of workers’ lives.
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