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Vanity: Shortage of Farm Workers?...
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Posted on 04/14/2013 1:34:09 PM PDT by kas7351

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1 posted on 04/14/2013 1:34:09 PM PDT by kas7351
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To: kas7351

This title is repulsive, It is wrong to degrade short farm workers.


2 posted on 04/14/2013 1:36:13 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: kas7351

There are only some 30 or 40 million illegals in this country. Maybe we should start rounding them up and giving them a choice.


3 posted on 04/14/2013 1:36:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Last summer we had to give legitimate “migrant” workers welfare because of the drought. This year the fruit growers say they need more because they can’t get the migrants from last year to come back.


4 posted on 04/14/2013 1:38:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Just pay a little more, contact the unemployment offices and bus out the poor from the cities


5 posted on 04/14/2013 1:40:00 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: cripplecreek

I think we should round them up also and also to give those assignments to the people who have been on unemployment for longer than 8 weeks. Why should we pay them for 99 weeks to sit at home when there is plenty of work out there?


6 posted on 04/14/2013 1:41:28 PM PDT by kas7351
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To: GeronL

Prison inmates would work just fine too.


7 posted on 04/14/2013 1:42:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kas7351

Something is wrong here, we have increasing unemployment while at the same time we have increasing lack of farmworkers.


8 posted on 04/14/2013 1:42:09 PM PDT by Vinylly
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To: GeronL

I know a strawberry farmer, he also gives them a place to live when they work for him. This could even help for the homeless..


9 posted on 04/14/2013 1:43:52 PM PDT by kas7351
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My brother-in-law is in construction. He is a feisty conservative, hired only citizens UNTIL he totally got fed up with the low-life, lazy laborers he was getting. Started hiring immigrants because they worked hard and had a good work ethic. I don’t think I’d hire urban welfare folks to work my orchards.


10 posted on 04/14/2013 1:44:40 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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your brother-in-law is a huge part of the immigration problem.


11 posted on 04/14/2013 1:46:54 PM PDT by delapaz
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To: kas7351

It takes a certain kind of person to do that work. I did farmwork as a teenager but I’d end up dead in the field if I tried it today.

If you intend to employ adults with families and homes, you’re going to have to pay far more than welfare or unemployment.

We’ve always had a sizable migrant labor force on the farms but they are evaporating as it becomes ever easier for them to collect benefits.


12 posted on 04/14/2013 1:47:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bboop

I drive by a lot of construction in my neighborhood all the time, you are correct about the migrant workers... I don’t think I remember seeing anything but Hispanics.

It is truly a shame of the entitlement that the Americans think they are entitled to. Sickens me for sure...


13 posted on 04/14/2013 1:48:36 PM PDT by kas7351
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maybe he should try hiring some Americans


14 posted on 04/14/2013 1:50:35 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bboop
My brother-in-law is in construction. He is a feisty conservative, hired only citizens UNTIL ...

Insert excuse here.

15 posted on 04/14/2013 1:52:59 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: kas7351

A while back was a consultant on a large CA commercial construction project. There were crews working that spoke six different languages. Generally only the super spoke English, and he not too well.

Not surprising they had the problems I was there to address. It was a regular Tower of Babel.


16 posted on 04/14/2013 1:53:18 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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They're not really immigrants unless they have an immigration visa. If he hired illegals he commited an unAmerican act for which the proper punishment is self-immolation.

Got a match?

17 posted on 04/14/2013 1:53:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: kas7351

Guess you’re just fine with the entitlement employers though.


18 posted on 04/14/2013 1:54:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kas7351
only cause the welfare RATS can't be made to work anymore or lose their place at the trough...
19 posted on 04/14/2013 1:55:32 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: cripplecreek

How can it be easier for them to collect benefits?


20 posted on 04/14/2013 1:56:01 PM PDT by kas7351
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