georgephillip
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- Dec 27, 2009
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Are you saying you are willing to pay US agricultural workers a living wage to harvest your fruits and vegetables? If so, would you be willing to subsidize private (corporate) farmers with your tax dollars in order to consistently provide those wages?Have you ever seen mechanical harvesters for grapes, citrus, avocados, or strawberries? I suppose such devices are possible, but their cost would be well beyond what's currently being spent to harvest those crops. How much more for your fruits and vegetables are you willing to pay in order to stem illegal immigration?That's bullshit. In Arizona when tough legislation chased the illegals away, ranchers and farmers invested in new agricultural equipment that did nearly all the jobs the illegals had done, creating new jobs for equipment manufacturers and increasing wages for remaining agricultural workers. The crops will be picked and processed by machines and American agricultural workers will earn more because the illegals are gone.Some jobs, particularly those in agriculture, will not get done without immigrants.Are they ILLEGAL immigrants?There are thousands of immigrants in my community,
If they are, you don't give them jobs, or government services.
California's undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
"Brokaw Ranch Company, in Ventura County, grows hundreds of acres of fruit including avocados, oranges and lemons that end up on tables all across the United States via Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and Costco.
"But before it gets there, it starts here, in leafy groves of trees under the California sun, where crews of workers climb the trees with ladders, cut each piece of fruit by hand and carry it in 80-pound sacks to collection bins.
"It's hard, careful work and, at least on this farm, it's done by immigrants.
"The Ventura County farm bureau estimates as many as 36,000 field workers bring in the county's crops of citrus, avocado and strawberries in peak harvest season, and that 95 percent of them are foreign-born.
"Ranch owner Ellen Brokaw said immigrant labor is essential to Ventura County's farms."
Their true worth when paying Americans a living wage. Why does the left absolutely hammer Wal-Mart but give a pass to agriculture. You don't care if Wal-Mart raises prices.