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Originally Posted by HillaryC
The lettuce isn't more expensive in Europe, Japan etc. And they don't have illegals doing it.
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U.S. Lettuce Statistics
check table 63 = export value
check table 61 = production of worlds lettuce
check table 62 = worlds producer prices
check table 45 = production per state
most of the statistics dong go beyond 2005 so I guess were going to take that as a reference.
worlds production in metric tons
USA 4,659,000 metric tons
japan 551,000 metric tons ( america produces 8.4 times more)
spain 1,026,000 metric tons (did not spain had a lot of illegals prior amn)
france 488,7000 metric tons
germay 241,700 metric tons
uk 139,900 metric tons
and in producers price
while in the usa a metric ton cost to produce $425
in japan a metric ton cost to produce $115,000 yen in dollars is $1,008 dollars
in germany a metric ton cost 788 euros or $972 dollars
who comes a winner ???usa, usa, usa
Monthly Average Graph (Japanese Yen, American Dollar) 2005
Monthly Average Graph (Euro, American Dollar) 2005
now about the lettuce itself lets not fool ourselves most of the workers were hispanics that worked in the salinas valley "which produces 80% of americas lettuce"
we talk and talk about how illegals destroy everything they touch, could we for a fact see how much of that
lettuce is being processed from 1986 amnesty illegal aliens? and their children? and how much of is done by illegals themselves? and how much are pick by visa workers?
the point is we are short of workers, or the producers dont want to pay what american workers rightfully deserved, but could we not be grateful and say "if those hispanics are doing it for cheap" they keep the producers
happy and if the producers actually paid the american workers what they deserved would it be just as expensive to produce lettuce as in japan or germany?
and for a second lets pretend that americans would take over those jobs, and those jobs woul pay a descent wage, dont you think that those americans would contribute more to society in taxes?
hispanics are to blame for a lot of americas problems but if you look closely they are the ones keeping lettuce and so many things
cheap for our daily use.
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