Posted on 09/01/2015 5:28:18 AM PDT by GIdget2004
C: Do you or anyone you know want these jobs?
If i had to i would pick fruit. Otherwise,I don’t WANT to support people, who don’t WANT to work, with taxpayer money.
If your business can’t turn a profit without hiring illegal labor, then you’ve got a poor business model.
“There are growers out there screaming for labor,”...........
There are thousands of signs out there stating “Help Wanted”, I see them everywhere. People no longer need to work as it is easier to live on welfare that actually hold a job.
My daughter-in-law has a 22 employee calf raising operation and she can’t find workers either. Many local factories here in Wisconsin need welders and can’t find any that want to actually earn a good days wages.
Go to the local tavern and there, those who are capable, sit sipping their beer and telling each other how tough it is to find work. I don’t buy it.
Less than 5% of the illegals work on farms.
It's amazing what people would be "willing to do" once you cut off their welfare benefits.
It's amazing what people are able to devise once they don't have the physical labor to take care of it. (such as the robots that are now starting to work in the fast food industry)
It's amazing that we figure out how to hire legal migrant workers once the illegal trade it cut off. Believe it or not, there are legal ways to get migrant workers - it's just easier and more profitable to hire illegal workers.
I’m assuming you support the laws mandating $15/hour minimum wage then?
The illegal working for next to nothing gets food stamps ($133 per month per person)
Section 8 housing($600 per month)
Utility assistance ($200 per month)
Obamacare ($300 per month)
Public education ($750 per month per child)
If we assume each illegal adult has 1 child that's $266 per month in food stamps, plus $600 for section 8, plus $200 for utilities, plus $600 for Obamacare, plus $750 for public education.
That totals $2416 a month WITHOUT taxes.
A citizen would have to make $3k a month, before taxes, to do that.
Speaking of taxes, NOW they're saying illegals can qualify for the EITC.
Illegal aliens work like the toughest union ever. If you aren't one of them you do not belong. Those are "their" jobs.
How many illegals does your DIL employ?
As for welders that is a skilled job usually controlled by unions.
It is not that people do not want to work, it is that they are blocked from working
The same farmers that brought us sugar and peanut tariffs, mandatory ethanol in our tanks, taxpayer crop subsidies and the genesis of the subprime mortgage meltdown??
I used to work with farmers. They will come across as the most down-to-earth Conservative souls on the planet. Until you challenge their favorite Federal giveaway program. Then they’re ready to mow you down with a thresher.
There would obviously still be a need for a bracero program of sorts.
Bull squat! Some people like cheap illegal alien labor. Thats the story here.
Not that produce is all that cheap, so the argument is flawed from the start. But lets pretend it is inexpensive. We are subsidizing that "cheap" produce by higher taxes for the social services consumed by Illegals. Similar to the way Walmart (for example) can keep lower prices while it's employees are directed to use food stamps and other forms of welfare.
Agreed. It will also result in increased automation/mechanization of agriculture.
We can’t blame the farmers for complaining. It was their complaining that caused that pimp jorge busho to open the borders in the first place. America was overrun with savages all in the name of big business.
Lets not forget at some point the customers that pay for it themselves stop buying then the only people left to buy it are the elites or the people swiping their EBT card.
The selection of foods available would drop dramatically.
It wouldn’t take long the only foods would be foods that could be harvested mechanically.
Supply and demand would necessarily cause the labor rate to rise without illegals. For a higher wage citizens would take the jobs. This will cause the price of food to go up in the short term. Technology innovation will result in lower prices again in the future.
Illegal workers are preventing technological innovation and the natural free market competitive process.
we have plenty of reserve “guest workers” they are called WELFARE RECIPIENTS.... get off your and get to work...
That’s a great idea, going into the field to pick one’s own veggies. The farmer would be ble to offer a discount over the grocery stores even, since he wouldn’t have to pay salaries and do all the paperwork required when one has employees.
I have gone into the fields to pick my own vegs. When living in areas where i could do that.
Fixed.
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