Chamber of Commerce Neo-Slavers ...
Posted on 08/19/2015 1:13:43 AM PDT by RC one
Edited on 08/19/2015 1:25:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Last year, about a quarter of Biringer Farm
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
On U.S. Farms, Fewer Hands for the Harvest Producers raise wages, enhance benefits, but a worker shortage grows with tighter border
unwilling to pick berries for $16-17/hr?
are you freaking kidding me? Cut off the free stuff and see if they're a little more inclined. Unbelievable. These indolent slobs deserve nothing.
Or, put another way, the sum of any unemployment and other funds should not exceed minimum way. Then, jobs at 2x minimum wage become attractive.
“unwilling to pick berries for $16-17/hr?”
You could make it $100/hr and they still wouldn’t work. Why would they when they can sit home (rent free) and watch TV, drive a new car, all you can eat buffet with EBT, free phone, free internet. Ah the good life. How much longer are the taxpayers gonna put up with this?
They should cut off the welfare and then make the convicts pick the berries for about $0.50/hr.
that’s exactly it.
I guess Mexicans won’t even do the jobs Americans won’t do. So why have the invaders here?
The welfare recipients dilemma, Do I get up at 5 AM and head out to pick fruit for $17 and hour or do I stay home, watch Oprah, The View, and Ellen, play on my smartphone, for $10 an hour tax free? And give up my free Medicaid, etc. etc. etc.... Let the Mexicans do it....
You are being played for outrage by the Chamber of Commerce neo-slavers.
Look at the source. WSJ. The Pravada of the GOPe/Aussie Murdock and open border corporate coyote class.
It is unbelievable because it is probably either a lie OR a manufactured pretense. I think I saw this same story a couple years ago. Juan/John McCain was making it. Could be as simple as the farm is for a few days only, is 30 miles from nearest population center and doesn’t offer transportation to get there.
Illegals are NOT the majority in any job category that Americans “won’t do” the last time I checked.
Would this type of knee jerk jingoistic propoganda argument be so outraging if used to justfy slavery so the cottelon gets picked?
You are being played for outrage by the Chamber of Commerce neo-slavers.
Look at the source. WSJ. The Pravada of the GOPe/Aussie Murdock and open border corporate coyote class.
It is unbelievable because it is probably either a lie OR a manufactured pretense. I think I saw this same story a couple years ago. Juan/John McCain was making it. Could be as simple as the farm is for a few days only, is 30 miles from nearest population center and doesn’t offer transportation to get there.
Illegals are NOT the majority in any job category that Americans “won’t do” the last time I checked.
Would this type of knee jerk jingoistic propoganda argument be so outraging if used to justfy slavery so the cottelon gets picked?
Fat fingers, small keyboard, no time. Forgive the typos.
illegal immigration actually is the cause for their shortage, as more illegals live in the cities where they are doing easier work for more pay and displacing urban laborers because they will do it cheaper.
If the illegals feared the law of deportation, they would steer clear and snap up these ag jobs.
If we can have washing machines that call your cell phone when the load is unbalanced I’ll bet we can figure out some machine to pick berries and apples, oranges, grapefruit, lettuce and so forth.
It is only a matter of incentive.
It is too easy to keep doing what is being done to change. Until the change is forced it will not be made.
We picked berries every spring for pocket money. People have too much now.. well, they are given too much now.
Consider the souce... the WSJ... propaganda rag for the owner class and the pubicrats.
Effing nonsense. Illegal alien invasion is at an all-time high in America, with some estimates putting it at 50 to 60 million.
If they can’t find tomato-pickers out of THOSE numbers, then I guess we’ll never eat tomatoes again.
Freakin’ Globalist Elitist RINO-con lying Agenda-21 people-hating anti-American “Wall Street Journal” strikes again.
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