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Wait a second. You think without a minimum wage, workers will get paid more?
Well that's one of the most stupid things I ever, ever heard by a right winger at the USMB. Ever.
More pay always equals more productivity. Less pay always equals less. There are some wacko freak not my fellow Americans who believe one should be productive no matter the wage...they hate America.
electrical work in Massachusetts charge $100 bucks an hour for the customer....those guys on polls in frigid weather get a pretty penny in the north, and THAT'S why they do it....The pay is crap, the working conditions are crap but more than anything else, its just plain hard work.
That's why American's won't do it.
Thanks to RWNJs, family farms are going under. But, have no fear because pino trump's 1% buddies are right there, ready to buy them out for pennies on the dollar.
.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
Americans will do any job for the proper compensation. Up north in these ungodly winters, I see linemen out in -0 degree weather during snow storms with winds 30mph on polls restoring electric power. I see the same in such weather repairing water lines.
The supply and demand system is the most perfect when it comes to employment. If you can't find workers,you need to increase your offers. If you find many workers, you are probably paying too much.
The system works good until you throw a monkey wrench into it like unions or immigrants. Then it F's up everything.
Plumbing work is also $100 an hour there, and this was 10 years ago....
Picking fruit is a much much harder job in the physical sense! the workers will have back problems and arthritis and many other painful ailments when they get older and if the Farmer does not contribute towards their health insurance, that's another expense that a $12.50 an hour job worker can not pay on that kind of money....
We who live here will get hit with higher prices on our food....shoot, $15 an hour with no benefits is not enough for any American to take this hard labor job....
Besides, THEY DON'T LIVE near the middle of nowhere farm land, the ones unemployed live near metropolitan area for the most part...you gotta pay an American a lot more money to be able to move themselves to a new area, find a home to rent, a car to drive, insurance etc....
I don't think $20 an hour with no benefits, is even enough....
And who in the world when they are young and strong, will want to live in the middle of farm land in the middle of nowhere? who would waste their youth picking veggies and fruit, when this would be the time to find a career path and the learning period of their future?
WHY don't the farmers apply for the visa for Migrant workers?
electrical work in Massachusetts charge $100 bucks an hour for the customer....those guys on polls in frigid weather get a pretty penny in the north, and THAT'S why they do it....The pay is crap, the working conditions are crap but more than anything else, its just plain hard work.
That's why American's won't do it.
Thanks to RWNJs, family farms are going under. But, have no fear because pino trump's 1% buddies are right there, ready to buy them out for pennies on the dollar.
.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
Americans will do any job for the proper compensation. Up north in these ungodly winters, I see linemen out in -0 degree weather during snow storms with winds 30mph on polls restoring electric power. I see the same in such weather repairing water lines.
The supply and demand system is the most perfect when it comes to employment. If you can't find workers,you need to increase your offers. If you find many workers, you are probably paying too much.
The system works good until you throw a monkey wrench into it like unions or immigrants. Then it F's up everything.
Plumbing work is also $100 an hour there, and this was 10 years ago....
Picking fruit is a much much harder job in the physical sense! the workers will have back problems and arthritis and many other painful ailments when they get older and if the Farmer does not contribute towards their health insurance, that's another expense that a $12.50 an hour job worker can not pay on that kind of money....
We who live here will get hit with higher prices on our food....shoot, $15 an hour with no benefits is not enough for any American to take this hard labor job....
Besides, THEY DON'T LIVE near the middle of nowhere farm land, the ones unemployed live near metropolitan area for the most part...you gotta pay an American a lot more money to be able to move themselves to a new area, find a home to rent, a car to drive, insurance etc....
I don't think $20 an hour with no benefits, is even enough....
And who in the world when they are young and strong, will want to live in the middle of farm land in the middle of nowhere? who would waste their youth picking veggies and fruit, when this would be the time to find a career path and the learning period of their future?
WHY don't the farmers apply for the visa for Migrant workers?
Liberal: We need to raise minimum wage to $15.00 an hour.
Conservative: that will increase the cost of our products and services.
Liberal: You won't notice the fifteen cent increase in your big-mac combo!
Conservative: We need to remove illegals and allow Americans to do those jobs.
Liberal: Do you know how much more you will pay for fruits and Veggies if we did that??.
It is not an article he is talking about, moron.For those who wonder what the OP is talking about- here is the link to the article- and yes- Blackrook lied in his OP.
'They're Scared': Immigration Fears Exacerbate Migrant Farmworker Shortage
The pickers range in age from 21 to 65, and all of them are Mexican. As in the rest of the U.S., growers in heavily agricultural northern Michigan rely overwhelmingly on migrant laborers to work the fields and orchards.
According to the farm owners, the workers either came from Mexico on temporary H2A visas or they have paperwork showing they are in the U.S. legally.
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
"It's really sad," adds Johnson's daughter, Heatherlyn Johnson Reamer, 44, who manages the farm. "They'll come, they'll check it out, and usually they're gone within a day or two."
It is not an article he is talking about, moron.For those who wonder what the OP is talking about- here is the link to the article- and yes- Blackrook lied in his OP.
'They're Scared': Immigration Fears Exacerbate Migrant Farmworker Shortage
The pickers range in age from 21 to 65, and all of them are Mexican. As in the rest of the U.S., growers in heavily agricultural northern Michigan rely overwhelmingly on migrant laborers to work the fields and orchards.
According to the farm owners, the workers either came from Mexico on temporary H2A visas or they have paperwork showing they are in the U.S. legally.
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
"It's really sad," adds Johnson's daughter, Heatherlyn Johnson Reamer, 44, who manages the farm. "They'll come, they'll check it out, and usually they're gone within a day or two."
It is an unsourced NPR sound byte.
electrical work in Massachusetts charge $100 bucks an hour for the customer....those guys on polls in frigid weather get a pretty penny in the north, and THAT'S why they do it....The pay is crap, the working conditions are crap but more than anything else, its just plain hard work.
That's why American's won't do it.
Thanks to RWNJs, family farms are going under. But, have no fear because pino trump's 1% buddies are right there, ready to buy them out for pennies on the dollar.
.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
Americans will do any job for the proper compensation. Up north in these ungodly winters, I see linemen out in -0 degree weather during snow storms with winds 30mph on polls restoring electric power. I see the same in such weather repairing water lines.
The supply and demand system is the most perfect when it comes to employment. If you can't find workers,you need to increase your offers. If you find many workers, you are probably paying too much.
The system works good until you throw a monkey wrench into it like unions or immigrants. Then it F's up everything.
Plumbing work is also $100 an hour there, and this was 10 years ago....
Picking fruit is a much much harder job in the physical sense! the workers will have back problems and arthritis and many other painful ailments when they get older and if the Farmer does not contribute towards their health insurance, that's another expense that a $12.50 an hour job worker can not pay on that kind of money....
We who live here will get hit with higher prices on our food....shoot, $15 an hour with no benefits is not enough for any American to take this hard labor job....
Besides, THEY DON'T LIVE near the middle of nowhere farm land, the ones unemployed live near metropolitan area for the most part...you gotta pay an American a lot more money to be able to move themselves to a new area, find a home to rent, a car to drive, insurance etc....
I don't think $20 an hour with no benefits, is even enough....
And who in the world when they are young and strong, will want to live in the middle of farm land in the middle of nowhere? who would waste their youth picking veggies and fruit, when this would be the time to find a career path and the learning period of their future?
WHY don't the farmers apply for the visa for Migrant workers?
Liberal: We need to raise minimum wage to $15.00 an hour.
Conservative: that will increase the cost of our products and services.
Liberal: You won't notice the fifteen cent increase in your big-mac combo!
Conservative: We need to remove illegals and allow Americans to do those jobs.
Liberal: Do you know how much more you will pay for fruits and Veggies if we did that??.
Conservative farmer and Trump voter: American's won't do those jobs.
Removing illegals will not magically create a labor pool for farmers all across the United States who can't find enough labor now- legal or illegal.
But I do get it- Conservatives think that allowing enough small farmers to be drivenout of business for lack of labor will improve the economy.
Migrant Labor has been a fact of life since the 1800s but there is a legal and illegal way of doing it -...he said an American tried it and gave up after one box.
Question.
How much does this farmer pay a fruit picker to pick one box of fruit?
Obviously, just enough to entice an illegal alien, but not enough to entice an American who has other employment options.
Solution.
Pay your workers more, enough so someone can actually live off what you are paying him, maybe enough for groceries, rent, utilties, with a little extra left to go to the movies on Saturday.
Illegal aliens don't need that. They live 12 to an apartment, eat rice and beans, and send the rest of their money to their families in Mexico or Central America.
So, the farmer wants us to let in illegal aliens so he doesn't have to pay a living wage for an American.
So, why are the Democrats AGAINST a living wage for American workers?
This is why Trump won the election, because American workers realized the Democrats have abandoned them.
electrical work in Massachusetts charge $100 bucks an hour for the customer....those guys on polls in frigid weather get a pretty penny in the north, and THAT'S why they do it....The pay is crap, the working conditions are crap but more than anything else, its just plain hard work.
That's why American's won't do it.
Thanks to RWNJs, family farms are going under. But, have no fear because pino trump's 1% buddies are right there, ready to buy them out for pennies on the dollar.
.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
Americans will do any job for the proper compensation. Up north in these ungodly winters, I see linemen out in -0 degree weather during snow storms with winds 30mph on polls restoring electric power. I see the same in such weather repairing water lines.
The supply and demand system is the most perfect when it comes to employment. If you can't find workers,you need to increase your offers. If you find many workers, you are probably paying too much.
The system works good until you throw a monkey wrench into it like unions or immigrants. Then it F's up everything.
Plumbing work is also $100 an hour there, and this was 10 years ago....
Picking fruit is a much much harder job in the physical sense! the workers will have back problems and arthritis and many other painful ailments when they get older and if the Farmer does not contribute towards their health insurance, that's another expense that a $12.50 an hour job worker can not pay on that kind of money....
We who live here will get hit with higher prices on our food....shoot, $15 an hour with no benefits is not enough for any American to take this hard labor job....
Besides, THEY DON'T LIVE near the middle of nowhere farm land, the ones unemployed live near metropolitan area for the most part...you gotta pay an American a lot more money to be able to move themselves to a new area, find a home to rent, a car to drive, insurance etc....
I don't think $20 an hour with no benefits, is even enough....
And who in the world when they are young and strong, will want to live in the middle of farm land in the middle of nowhere? who would waste their youth picking veggies and fruit, when this would be the time to find a career path and the learning period of their future?
WHY don't the farmers apply for the visa for Migrant workers?
Liberal: We need to raise minimum wage to $15.00 an hour.
Conservative: that will increase the cost of our products and services.
Liberal: You won't notice the fifteen cent increase in your big-mac combo!
Conservative: We need to remove illegals and allow Americans to do those jobs.
Liberal: Do you know how much more you will pay for fruits and Veggies if we did that??.
Conservative farmer and Trump voter: American's won't do those jobs.
Removing illegals will not magically create a labor pool for farmers all across the United States who can't find enough labor now- legal or illegal.
But I do get it- Conservatives think that allowing enough small farmers to be drivenout of business for lack of labor will improve the economy.
So what is your clam here, that if we don't have illegals and immigrants, we will quit growing food?
The NPR radio sound byte was not sourced, moron.It is not an article he is talking about, moron.For those who wonder what the OP is talking about- here is the link to the article- and yes- Blackrook lied in his OP.
'They're Scared': Immigration Fears Exacerbate Migrant Farmworker Shortage
The pickers range in age from 21 to 65, and all of them are Mexican. As in the rest of the U.S., growers in heavily agricultural northern Michigan rely overwhelmingly on migrant laborers to work the fields and orchards.
According to the farm owners, the workers either came from Mexico on temporary H2A visas or they have paperwork showing they are in the U.S. legally.
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
"It's really sad," adds Johnson's daughter, Heatherlyn Johnson Reamer, 44, who manages the farm. "They'll come, they'll check it out, and usually they're gone within a day or two."
It is an unsourced NPR sound byte.
Don't you ever get tired of me showing what an idiot you are?
From the OP:
Farmer on NPR said he couldn't find an American who would pick fruit..
..he said an American tried it and gave up after one box.
........
So, the farmer wants us to let in illegal aliens so he doesn't have to pay a living wage for an American.
From the article that I also listened to- and went to NPR and sourced:
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
Blackrook lied to you- and you are gullible enough to swallow his lie, hook, line and sinker.
The NPR radio sound byte was not sourced, moron.It is not an article he is talking about, moron.For those who wonder what the OP is talking about- here is the link to the article- and yes- Blackrook lied in his OP.
'They're Scared': Immigration Fears Exacerbate Migrant Farmworker Shortage
The pickers range in age from 21 to 65, and all of them are Mexican. As in the rest of the U.S., growers in heavily agricultural northern Michigan rely overwhelmingly on migrant laborers to work the fields and orchards.
According to the farm owners, the workers either came from Mexico on temporary H2A visas or they have paperwork showing they are in the U.S. legally.
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
"It's really sad," adds Johnson's daughter, Heatherlyn Johnson Reamer, 44, who manages the farm. "They'll come, they'll check it out, and usually they're gone within a day or two."
It is an unsourced NPR sound byte.
Don't you ever get tired of me showing what an idiot you are?
From the OP:
Farmer on NPR said he couldn't find an American who would pick fruit..
..he said an American tried it and gave up after one box.
........
So, the farmer wants us to let in illegal aliens so he doesn't have to pay a living wage for an American.
From the article that I also listened to- and went to NPR and sourced:
Johnson Farms' owner, Dean Johnson, 67, says it's just about impossible to find Americans to do this work. "We've tried. We really have," he says. "Sometimes people come out on a day like today and they'll pick one box, and then they're gone. They just don't want to do it."
Blackrook lied to you- and you are gullible enough to swallow his lie, hook, line and sinker.
Do you ever get tired of arguing with people who actually know things?
Blackrook heard the sound byte on the RADIO(as I did because I have been on the road for the past few days)and assessed that sound byte.
Blackrook paraphrased what the clip said accurately.
...he said an American tried it and gave up after one box.
Question.
How much does this farmer pay a fruit picker to pick one box of fruit?
Obviously, just enough to entice an illegal alien, but not enough to entice an American who has other employment options.
Solution.
Pay your workers more, enough so someone can actually live off what you are paying him, maybe enough for groceries, rent, utilties, with a little extra left to go to the movies on Saturday.
Illegal aliens don't need that. They live 12 to an apartment, eat rice and beans, and send the rest of their money to their families in Mexico or Central America.
So, the farmer wants us to let in illegal aliens so he doesn't have to pay a living wage for an American.
So, why are the Democrats AGAINST a living wage for American workers?
This is why Trump won the election, because American workers realized the Democrats have abandoned them.
Why do they have to be illegal? Why can't they come in legally, stay in employer provided barracks type housing, and go home off season?
I don't care if we let MORE people in if they're vetted and are working, tracked, abide by the law and aren't voting for commies.