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May 19, 2006
Laura Ingraham - The Cindy Smallwood Affair and What It Means to People Who Read This Blog
Yesterday, Laura Ingraham discussed an article in the Los Angeles Times about a landscaping company unable to fill a job paying $34 an hour. The Times used this problem as proof that we need illegal immigration. Laura had other opinions.
Today Laura actually talked to Cindy Smallwood, the owner of the landscaping company who is suffering from underemployment. In actual fact, it's not a landscaping company but a construction firm. The word "landscaping" occurs in the title. Smallwood does public works projects, so the wages she pays are set by California law. The article says she'd like to add eight employees, but at the current time only three positions are open. Two are for $34.24 per hour, and they require prior experience (2 to 5 years) in the landscape construction industry. The unskilled job-- which involves actual landscaping-- is for $14 an hour.
In other words, for about the umpteen millionth time, a newspaper got the story wrong.
This distresses me greatly, because I get a lot of my information from newspaper web sites. So, I'm asking for a favor. If I cite a newspaper or any other major media web site, remember that the facts in question may be distorted beyond recognition. For my part, I'll try to remember only to believe things I read in right-wing blogs.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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