Is cheap labor really that cheap when it is illegal?
To: Colonel Kangaroo
With 13 million folks out of work, I would be quite surprised if these farmers have no interested workers, but paying South American wages, as they likely have been used to, might not cut it anymore. Offer minimum wage and they will probably have hundreds of applicants daily.
2 posted on
05/26/2011 11:09:50 PM PDT by
ri4dc
(Cut your cable, Break Wind for the TSA, Flush Twice in 2012, ROTUS Meet the Hermanator)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Memo to GA farmers, get over it. So sorry your uber cheap illegal labor is finito, just pay a decent wage to get American citizens to work, end of story.
Hell, I am more than willing to pay another dime for a head of lettuce or a couple of peaches to get the illegals out of the US.
3 posted on
05/26/2011 11:15:22 PM PDT by
Sea Parrot
(Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
This is total horse hockey! Here in Georgia there are just as many illegals since Governor Deal signed the bill 2 weeks ago as now. Illegals have been leaving for 2 years now, but that is because of lack of work not a law.
The lack of workers is for one reason only: lack of paying a fair wage! It is the same excuse American won't work BS!
Truth is Americans will not work for poor wages, sometimes as low as $3 per hour. For those who do not know Georgia state min wage is $2.35, if your business has no operations outside the state that is.
4 posted on
05/26/2011 11:27:53 PM PDT by
Snuph
("give me Liberty...")
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Next up, Government subsidies to pay wages to hire workers.
Or am I just too cynical ?
6 posted on
05/26/2011 11:33:05 PM PDT by
onona
(Fullly aware that I may be totally)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
As a nation we have become lazy. When I was 14 I got my social security card so I could get a job detasseling corn. Our crew was 100% Caucasian. Crappy work at minimum wage it was.
When I was in the service I had a friend who was an American with deep Mexican roots. He told me how he and his family would pick crops to make extra money. Kids these days will not show up if they might get a blister or if the job doesn't offer leisure brakes and a wage above minimum. I remember when you had to be in the "in" crowd to get a job at McDonalds.
7 posted on
05/26/2011 11:34:46 PM PDT by
BBell
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Same old BS about Americans not wanting to work. The fact is the farmers don’t want to pay the wages Americans need to live on.
10 posted on
05/26/2011 11:43:52 PM PDT by
calex59
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Stop the unemployment checks and watch the job applications.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Horse crap, there are 11 or 14 different federal programs for farm labor.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
What a bunch of small minded folks in the Ag business! If they can’t piggyback off illegal labor and the corrupt politicians in combination with both corporate and labor welfare & overextended unemployment $$s, they just whine like spoiled children. Where is the innovation and ingenuity??? Illegal Labor is very much like slavery of both the taxpayers and the illegal migrant and the opportunity costs are enormous!
14 posted on
05/27/2011 1:11:19 AM PDT by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: Colonel Kangaroo
We actually agree about something. Let their crops rot. If I have to pay $.10 more per bunch of grapes picked by Americans so be it.
20 posted on
05/27/2011 3:35:13 AM PDT by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Isn’t this the exact same argument made by the agri-crop growers when slavery was made illegal?
21 posted on
05/27/2011 3:49:21 AM PDT by
TexasRedeye
(Eschew obfuscation)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
You mean with all those thousands of welfare recipients in GA, there are no able bodied workers available to harvest crops? The Bible says, “If any would not work, neither should he eat.” Food stamps should not be issued to loafers.
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26 posted on
05/27/2011 5:05:30 AM PDT by
bcsco
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Ping!
The other side of the coin - good point in first comment; how cheap is it, really, when it’s illegal?
31 posted on
05/27/2011 8:45:45 AM PDT by
HiJinx
(Old Cold Warrior)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
There’s a lot of able bodied college students looking for summer work. $12.50 an hour is not a bad wage.
32 posted on
05/27/2011 9:19:35 AM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
This is VERY good!
Maybe the farmers will have to pay people a decent wage now. They’ve been getting away with cheap labor for too long. I’m willing to pay an extra nickel for a peach if it gets rid of the illegals. If I was a teenager, I’d be glad to work in the fields for $12.50 an hour instead of a fast food place for minimum wage. If I was out of work I’d pick vegetables for $12.50 an hour.
Enough with the bellyachin’-it win win win all the way around for legal citizens.
33 posted on
05/27/2011 9:35:27 AM PDT by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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