Posted on 09/30/2006 9:34:58 AM PDT by traumer
Where is the Boo-Hoo/Barf Alert?
Exactly!!!!!No other business is allowed an unlimited amount of slave labor, try paying more than 2 bucks an hour. BTW, yes I am willing to pay an extra quarter for my onion.
It is looking like the cop killer in Fla was an illegal as well.
One of my daughters is marrying into a family that raises and packs onions (among other things) They have large contracts to fulfill and ship onions all over the US and to Canada. She worked for them in their onion packing shed this summer. This family does NOT hire illegals and never has. They had no problem getting help, their help is local people that have been doing this for years and they hire some legal foreign workers to get the numbers they need.
I really think the farmers that have been depending totally on illegal workers are the ones yelling the loudest. It does take time for paperwork to get legal farm workers from Mexico, but many farmers have been doing it for years.
Looks like the farmers that can't get the workers don't have a plan B like the farmers who are doing fine by following the law.
If the times were normal, the left wing press would be lambasting Carnes as a corrupt capitalist exploiter of the downtrodden masses, who refuses to give his workers a living wage.
""A Mexican worker is going to pick these crops one way or the other, and the only question is whether they pick them here or across the border in Mexico," Jacoby said."
I'm all for having them pick them in Messico because it would relieve us of the huge expense of the unearned benefits they receive here at taxpayer expense.
After being "ADDICTED" to illegal alien labor at slave wages for decades..., how likely do you see this changing!
30+ years ago I was ranting about this situation (in conjunction with my occupation), to no more avail than today!
The "Bracero Program" functioned relatively well until liberals convinced the Congress that it was "Un-American"!
That is not the way it works. You look at how much it will cost you to hire people to do it by had v. how much it costs to buy machinery that will allow you to do the same job with a only a couple of people.
The problem is that you can not just walk into your local Wal-Mart and buy a harvester. So this year they are up a creek. However with the crack down and 4.7% unemployment making the outlook for hiring temporary labor difficult and costly many of them will be placing a order for one for next year.
With in the next few years look for these harvest jobs to go bye-bye as more farmers decide to invest in equipment.
While I can agree with your sentiments concerning "unearned benefits", properly regulated that wouldn't be the case!
Foreign "Field Sanitation Standards" are minimal at best! I assume that you wash all fresh produce vigorously in chlorine or hydrogen pyroxide before eating??? Human defication in the field (on crops) is commonplace outside of Western Nations!
you don't REALLY think that these folks picking in the US suddenly feel the urge to practice (what to them are unnatural) sanitary habits just because they are in gringoland, do you? no
AND....are they examined individually for communicable diseases before they are put to work here? no
I remember that some 40 illegals caught last spring working at a chicken processing plant down south tested positive for TB.
Who needs biological warfare when you can just put diseased people to work preparing food.
Curious...What's the price on this bad boy? Might it be under $150,000?
This was one of the reasons Mexico encouraged immigration from the US into Texas, to stop trouble with the Indians. It backfired on them.
The site had no pricing info, but I was wondering the same thing. Surely over a few years it would pay for itself.
If the local steel mill paid its technicians, millwrights and other laborers $5.00 an hour, I bet a lot of steel would go unharvested, too.
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