[Polybius]

Ah so, the usual McCain, ‘doing the jobs Americans won’t do’ crap. I guarantee you if you offered cash for a days labor here in Michigan, you’d have no problem filling those jobs.

Michigan? Where the highest average temperature for Grand Rapids, MI during the entire year is 82°?

LOL!

Try picking crops in South Florida or the Califonia Central Valley in the heat of summer. The Michigan folks would first be whining about the heat and then dropping like flies.

Round up 500 Michan crop pickers and I will guarantee you one contract in South Florida and another one in the California Central Valley.

[cripplecreek]

Round up 500 Michan crop pickers

Would have been more effective to stop them when they passed through Texas.

[rintense]

We produce tons of produce, including the best blueberries in the country, incredible cherries, not to bad celery, and the best Honeycrisp Apples in the land. Of course, that also means ‘seasonal’ migrants come here in droves in March and leave in November.

[itsahoot]

Those picking jobs will disappear if the farmers have to pay a living wage, guess what will replace them? The same thing that has replaced the factory worker.

Take a look at the new VW plant, all robotized fewer workers. Most picking jobs can and will be replaced by machines, or we will simply learn to do without their product.

I remember a time that if we didn’t grow it or kill it we did without. Not as hard as you think.