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Good grief, I'll relocate my children to Arizona when and if they pay $15/hour.

Good heavens! We'd all starve if it cost that much to harvest lettuce. The sky is falling! We're doomed!

111 posted on 04/04/2006 2:28:42 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)

McCain is an Idiot.

The price of lettuce is made up of a lot of things.

According to Dept of Agriculture, the cost of labor for lettuce is 7% retail price. IOW, if you paid $1 for lettuce, the laborers got 7 cents. Increase the pay from $5/hour to $50 hour would increase the price of lettuce from $1/lbs. to $1.70/lbs.

Another Fact, there are 1.5 million farm payroll laborers in the USA. There are 11 million illegals. What are the other 9.5 million doing?

Finally, how many US citizens are picking lettuce right now? I bet thousands are.

138 posted on 04/04/2006 6:01:55 PM PDT by rcocean (Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)