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To: Dog Gone
Alot of prices for things, the labor is really low. I once saw a show about designer clothes. The material and labor is just a dollar or two often on the price of a $200 suit. It's the mark-up.

Even if strawberry pickers made $25 an hour, you wouldn't have to have prices go up that dramatically. You just set a skill level. I am sure a decent amount of people would be willing to work fast. You could easily pick 100 baskets worth of strawberries an hour. That would be .25 a basket. They are already paying the illegals something. A few dollars an hour. It might at worst cost .20 more for a $4.00 container if that. Labor is not always what is driving these prices. Alot of the food and garments the price is in the mark up. Not the making of it.

117 posted on 12/25/2006 5:13:20 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12

I'm either for paying whatever it takes to get Americans to pick them, or making sure the Mexicans here picking them are here legally on temporary work visas.

I'm not opposed to seasonal labor. They just don't get to stay here and become citizens automatically or use our social systems. They aren't Americans.


118 posted on 12/25/2006 7:10:21 PM PST by Dog Gone
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