The farm owners say they have a bountiful year of pears and apples but not enough help due to the immigrants scared to work. Well if they don't have their work permits I would assume they are illegal. On farmer being interviewed claim only 1 American other than hispanic decent has applied for a job in the last 5 years. She also said allowing the pears to rot due to not having pickers is I quote "Murdering the Pears" I had to look at the closed caption to verify.
Now is there not some Americans who could use this work?
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Change child labor laws. 12 to 16 year olds could do all the fruit havesting, did back in the 60’s and early 70’s. It’d be good for all the poor attitudes so many young have today, so would the draft!
That translates to about $.50 a bushel. No wonder no one wants those jobs. Heck, even the illegals are staying away from that pittance.
Thirty-six cubic feet of apples per bin. I would guess that holds about 700 apples. That means they are getting abou two cents per apple picked.
“On farmer being interviewed claim only 1 American other than hispanic decent has applied for a job in the last 5 years. “
Americans would not be welcome when 99% of the workers are illegal, and don’t speak english. More BS.
If it comes down to a choice between “murdering pears”.....or Murdering US citizens such as recently happened in NJ.....
hmmmmmmmmmmm, let me think on this for a millisecond, I say “seeeeeeeeyyyyaaaaaaaaaaa pears, it’s been real”.