[Clint N. Suhks]

America has plenty of unskilled unemployed citizens that will work. If the price of a head of lettuce or a Big Mac is $5 so be it.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Hey Clint did you watch Sons of Liberty last night?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: if "a head of lettuce [would be] $5 so be it."

Actually I've seen similar reports to this one.

"For a typical household, a 40 percent increase in farm labor costs translates into a 3.6 percent increase in retail prices. If farm wages rose 40 percent, and this wage increase were passed on to consumers, average spending on fresh fruits and vegetables would rise about $15 a year, the cost of two movie tickets. However, for a typical seasonal farm worker, a 40 percent wage increase could raise earnings from $10,000 for 1,000 hours of work to $14,000 — lifting the wage above the federal poverty line."

The Costs and Benefits of a Raise for Field Workers by Philip Martin a labor economist at the University of California, Davis, is the author, most recently, of “Importing Poverty? Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America.”

U.C. Davis is right there in California's multi-billion dollar agriculture just about twelve miles from the Capital.

I have not read the book. The article seemed to me to be saying what the excerpt states. Though it worries me a little that the Nytimese published the U.C. Davis professor's study.

BTW I wish more conservative media personalities would use and cite U.S. federal government statistics as Mr. Levin did at the beginning. Let the aging 1960's Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litter occupying buildings in D.C. lie their way out of those numbers.

[Biggirl]

Congrats To Clint N. Suhks For Winning The Best Thread Posting.

[Biggirl]

Correction, First Tie.