Posted on 09/18/2025 11:07:40 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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Plenty of demonicRATS will pay Jimmy to wipe their asses, as well.
RE: But who will pick our crops?
——————————————————————————————Muleskinner Blues (traditional folk song)
Who’s gonna shoe your pretty little feet?
Who’s gonna glove your hand?
Who’s gonna kiss your red, ruby lips?
Who’s gonna be your man?
Papa’s gonna shoe my pretty little feet
Mama’s gonna glove my hand
Sister’s gonna kiss my red, ruby lips
I don’t need no man.
When I was young in the late 40’s early 50’s, it was not unusual to see illegals in the fields being overseen by picking field foremen representing the companies that got them picked and shipped to the packing houses for grading, sorting, packing and shipping. Even at that time the illegals were working but that was because of lower wages rather than availability.
Wages go for California areas designated by cities:
Modesto $43,506
Berkeley $43,126
San Francisco $41,496
Santa Clara $41,365
Sunnyvale $41,337
Livermore $41,314
San Jose $41,278
Los Gatos $41,026
Daly City $40,810
Santa Cruz $40,668
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Fruit-Picker-Salary—in-California
And if you look in the article, it will say that per wages California is 50th among 50 even with those wages.
The problem they are having is that with the increase in need of the fruits and vegetables they are having to hire more pickers for higher wages so the ranchers can’t afford the bill and their produce dies on the vine. So it’s the price problem and not the amount of pickers needed to get the fields done. And the union, the UFW, keeps applying pressure to hire union workers. The rubber band is stretched tight.
wy69
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Unions. 🤨 A prime example of too much of a good thing. As usual when democrats get involved the little guy pays and the bosses get rich. Limitless power = limitless corruption.
So as far as I'm concerned, that's 7 million useless eaters right there that can be freed up for service in the fields. And I will fully expect education test scores to start rising in the aftermath. I mean, if the kids are being forced to sit through drag queen presentations and brainwashing sessions about their gender, the teachers might have nothing better to do than teach them to read and do math.
Well played sir!
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For example, at Ohio State, there are 5014 full time faculty and 29,446 administrators, support staff, and non-teaching employees. The problem seems to be worst at public universities as many of the new administrators are on staff to oversee the grant proposals and money and have nothing to do with educating students.
How many people does it take to shuffle money around? I’ve dealt with grant processes a bit in past NGO work and with my foundation and while it superficially is meant to provide a structure for decision making regarding money decisions, practically speaking you could cut out 95% of it and things would be no worse. And if you got the bureaucrats to actually go visit the projects in person instead of pushing papers around endlessly, that would be even better.
Fired woke ‘journalists’?
Yeah at a 50 million dollar net worth, he’s not going to be picking veggies.
I picked apples and plums for meager pay when I was young.
Hire Americans at a decent wage. Or let it rot. I do not care.
The big secret is that most of the crop picking process is now done by machine. The majority of the field jobs are gone!
Hard engineered tasteless fruits and veggies suitable for machine picking.
But who will pick our crops?
John Deere and Co.
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