If farmers weren't "hurting" before - and they are now - then they obviously must have been hiring illegals. And now we're suppose to cry for them, and feel threatened by the TRAGIC loss of their lousy vegetables.
If you can't find the labor you want and need for your business, then here's some free capitalist advice: Go out of business like the failure you are.
Don't come crying to government that American laws need to be changed in order to serve you.
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To: SteveMcKing
The jerks that built their business using illegal invaders at low wages deserve to rot themselves, along with their crops.
Put this guy in jail for aiding and abetting illegals KNOWINGLY, and in violation of Federal Law.
2 posted on
10/08/2007 6:34:11 PM PDT by
traditional1
( Fred Thompson-The ONLY electable Republican Candidate)
To: SteveMcKing
Then they weren’t offering to pay enough wages for the work. IF they would pay more, they’d had plenty of people out there to pick the veggies.
3 posted on
10/08/2007 6:34:21 PM PDT by
Tamar1973
(Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
To: SteveMcKing
Pick it yourselves and your kids too.
4 posted on
10/08/2007 6:34:58 PM PDT by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: SteveMcKing
They are here, unofficial estimates up to 38 million, either there has been too little advertising, or not enough pay, or something. No more are needed from south of the border. It is clear with all the housing construction layoffs, laborers do not want to work in the fields either.
5 posted on
10/08/2007 6:37:05 PM PDT by
givemELL
To: SteveMcKing
What's worse, in my view is that the farmers would rather waste the produce than pay market wages for workers. Pay enough, and you will get workers.
6 posted on
10/08/2007 6:37:22 PM PDT by
Ace's Dad
("but every now and then, the Dragon comes to call")
To: SteveMcKing
‘We Don’t Have Enough Workers, Produce May Rot In Fields’
...too f-in bad, so f-in sad! I’d rather pay $20.00 for a pound of carrots picked by legals than $2.00 for a pound picked by illegals.
7 posted on
10/08/2007 6:37:46 PM PDT by
albie
To: SteveMcKing
Would the MSM give sympathetic coverage to a factory owner wanting to use child labor?
8 posted on
10/08/2007 6:38:27 PM PDT by
inkling
(exurbanleague.com)
To: SteveMcKing
May I suggest the obvious? Instead of importing slaves from Mexico, why don’t they pay a “living wage?”
9 posted on
10/08/2007 6:38:34 PM PDT by
Brilliant
To: SteveMcKing
What did they do all these years without the illegals????
LET IT ROT!
10 posted on
10/08/2007 6:38:37 PM PDT by
angelcindy
(Where's the Fence?????)
To: SteveMcKing
Another phoney story that the left is using to terrorize the American people in surrendering to the invasion of criminal aliens and the people that sponsor them.
11 posted on
10/08/2007 6:39:10 PM PDT by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: SteveMcKing
It’s called hire some local unemployed people. Maybe offer a better price than the dirt-low wages you can get away with paying illegals. Do what every other business does and pass along the increase to the consumer. They will pay more for good produce. If prices are artificially low, then they should rise to whatever the market will set them at. Besides, the rich will feel less guilty because they will be doing ‘penance’ and paying more. They always think they are being so humanitarian when they have to fork out more money for things.
To: SteveMcKing
Why did he plant it then?
Kind of presumptuous of him.
14 posted on
10/08/2007 6:42:42 PM PDT by
Finalapproach29er
(Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
To: SteveMcKing
Cut off the welfare checks to all able-bodied freeloading Americans and watch as they suddenly find themselves motivated to work.
15 posted on
10/08/2007 6:42:57 PM PDT by
Mr. Mojo
("Hidin' in a corner ...of New York City, lookin' down a .44 in West Virginy")
To: SteveMcKing
They should pay what legal people are willing to work for.
18 posted on
10/08/2007 6:45:13 PM PDT by
cost_benefit
(Proud member of "Club for Growth")
To: SteveMcKing
I read just this morning there are 38,000,000 illegals in this country. Who is lying...
To: SteveMcKing
This smells, I drove I-5 from Modesto to Sac last week and there is very little “produce” left in the fields. I saw mostly corn and the produce stands had pretty much closed down for the year. There maybe some lettuce left around Salinas but the story is misleading.
To: SteveMcKing
Sounds like the housing industry has stolen a bunch of (illegal) workers from the agriculture industry.
21 posted on
10/08/2007 6:47:32 PM PDT by
goodnesswins
(Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
To: SteveMcKing
Too bad, shouldn’t have been using illegal labor.
24 posted on
10/08/2007 6:49:32 PM PDT by
monkeycard
(There is no such thing as too much ammo.)
To: SteveMcKing
Or, and heres a thought.
Pay people more and they will come out and do it..
25 posted on
10/08/2007 6:50:20 PM PDT by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: SteveMcKing
If they pay a decent wage, people will apply for the work.
30 posted on
10/08/2007 6:52:50 PM PDT by
Netizen
(If we can't locate/deport illegals, how will we get them to come forward to pay their $3,250 fines?)
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