[Girlene]

from the article:

“I wish you would go on plant tours with me . . . and ask the question, ‘Do you have any openings?’ And 99 percent of the time, the answer is yes.” He said that in many cases due to visa restrictions, for farm labor, “It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can’t pay an American to pick blueberries.”

So maybe we need to rethink our unemployment compensation and our food stamp programs? If you're hungry enough, or worried about having a place to live, you will work in a factory or pick blueberries.

His last thought about the blueberry pickers doesn't make sense to me. Is he saying it's costlier to hire them as illegals to pick berries, so we need to make them citizens so it will be cheaper???? what is he saying?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

His last thought about the blueberry pickers doesn't make sense to me. Is he saying it's costlier to hire them as illegals to pick berries, so we need to make them citizens so it will be cheaper???? what is he saying?

Good question. He wants more "guest workers," maybe something beyond that.

[little jeremiah]

The solution is really quite simple. Well, part of the solution.

NO MORE FREAKING WELFARE FOR ANYONE.

And then Americans will be overjoyed to pick blueberries, or anything else.

(And enforce existing immigration laws.)

Also insane over regulations need to be thrown away.

All this will have to happen sooner or later anyway. Might as well start now, or it will happen the hard way, which will be a lot less pretty.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Congress gets way too emotional about some wasted food. It really isn’t a big deal if some fruit doesn’t get picked and brought to market. Grow something more important or something that needs less labor. People are not malnourished because of this.

There’s coal in the ground that can’t get mined because of Congress passing pointless laws.