"Your right, we should just plow all the farms under and buy our food from Chile so we won't need cheap labor. Now how you going to solve the construction problem, burn all the houses? When did Conservatives become more anti-business than Libs?"
Why would anyone want to burn houses?
Your post doesn't address what I said - and doesn't make sense. Being unable to understand it, I won't respond further.
Of course you don't understand it because you don't understand econ 101. The market determines the price, not the farmer or the processor. Same with the price of labor. Plentiful menial laborers compete against each other driving their price down. You guys are so quick to sell out the farmer to serve your own rhetoric that it is frightening.
Let's take it to the logical conclusion. We have no farmers because they cannot make money thanks to high priced labor, so we have no breadbasket. Mexico and Chile does not have the land/climate or technology to feed the world. The price of food skyrockets due to shortages and starvation or severe poverty occurs in America, but the borders are nailed shut so you die happy.
Pukin is absolutely right because he understands the invisible hand of capitalism.
Fact is, cheap labor is a necessity. There is a way to solve both these problems and we need to find it.
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