Although you may not have found his humor funny, he brought up some great points wrapped up in his humor, as he tends to do.
Quote: This brief experience gave me some small understanding why so few Americans are clamoring to begin an exciting career as a seasonal migrant field worker. So what's the answer? Now I'm a free market guy, normally, I would leave this to the invisible hand of the market but the invisible hand of the market has already moved over eighty four thousand acres of production for twenty two thousand farm jobs to Mexico and shut down over a million acres of U.S. farmland due to a lack of available labor - because, apparently, even the invisible hand doesn't want to pick beans.
Now I'm not a fan of the government doing anything, nut I've gotta ask, why isn't the government doing anything? Maybe this ad-jobs bill would help, I don't know, like most members of congress - I haven't read it. But maybe we could offer more visas to the immigrants, who let's face it, will probably be doing these jobs anyway and this improved legal status might allow immigrants recourse if they are abused. And it just stands to reason to me that if your co worker can't be exploited, that you are less likely to be exploited yourself and that, in itself, might improve pay and working conditions on these farms - and Americans may consider taking these jobs again.
Quote: I like talking about people who don't have any power...I feel the need to speak for those who can't speak for themselves....We ask them to come and work, and then we ask them to leave again. They suffer, and have no rights.
Would I have had Colbert there in character? Hell no. Did he at least make salient points about the topic at hand? Absolutely. It was no more a mockery than the Goldman Sachs execs sitting there flat out lying about their part in the financial crisis.
At least Colbert was honest.
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