CA Farmers whining they can't survive without illegal labor (unemployed, government, California)

[PullMyFinger]

Originally Posted by Marlow

You want to put prisoners to work on private farms to keep food costs low?

There's a word for that. Do you know what it is?

Better than a bullet to the head which most of them deserve.

[Milton Miteybad]

Originally Posted by Marlow

Take over what? The farms?

So now you're proposing expropriation of private property to the State?

My, my. Faux conservatives continue to show their true colors.

Why would you blithely assume that anybody working "The State," simply by virtue thereof, would, of necessity, be possessed of superior management skills?

[desertdetroiter]

California farmers are hardcore conservative Republicans too.

Told y'all that it's Republicans that rely more on illegal labor than any other group.

[Wambatown81]

Originally Posted by GregW

I have no idea how these pickers manage to survive. I admire their tenacity.

I'd admire them more if they left the country and let the wages go up.

[Suburban_Guy]

Originally Posted by Wambatown81

I'd admire them more if they left the country and let the wages go up.

Did you even read the article in the original post?

Some even offered 22 dollars an hour plus benefits to entice native Americans to pick crops, and they still couldn't find takers. 22 bucks an hour. More than fast food wages, more than jobs that are far easier that people inquire about on this forum.

Americans simply don't want to do these jobs. It's brutal, backbreaking work. Like I said, I wouldn't do it for 40 bucks an hour (more than I make now).

I know the anti illegal alien crowd can't comprehend this, and live in a fantasy land where if wages supposedly went up and all illegals we're deported, Americans would work these jobs in droves. That is nonsense.

Hey, I don't like illegals myself, but at the same time I'm not too ignorant to realize that some things illegals do very very few Americans would be willing to do.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Did you even read the article in the original post?

Some even offered 22 dollars an hour plus benefits to entice native Americans to pick crops, and they still couldn't find takers. 22 bucks an hour. More than fast food wages, more than jobs that are far easier that people inquire about on this forum.

Americans simply don't want to do these jobs. It's brutal, backbreaking work. Like I said, I wouldn't do it for 40 bucks an hour (more than I make now).

I know the anti illegal alien crowd can't comprehend this, and live in a fantasy land where if wages supposedly went up and all illegals we're deported, Americans would work these jobs in droves. That is nonsense.

Hey, I don't like illegals myself, but at the same time I'm not too ignorant to realize that some things illegals do very very few Americans would be willing to do.

Once again only 4% of illegals work in agriculture. So confusing legal and illegal continue.

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by dothetwist

Different this year. trump's first harvest. He's po'd Mexicans; they are NOT going to cross illegally this year, too much of a risk.

Tho you probably mean illegal aliens are SCARED about being arrested and, not just Mexicans.

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by Marlow

You want to put prisoners to work on private farms to keep food costs low?

There's a word for that. Do you know what it is?

Agreed.

ILLEGAL aliens are the same thing; anybody will wants their kind here ain't any better.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by PullMyFinger

Better than a bullet to the head which most of them deserve.

So you are a fan of executing 1 in 12 adult Americans. Thats the current stat for how many will have felonies.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by Marlow

You want to put prisoners to work on private farms to keep food costs low?

There's a word for that. Do you know what it is?

I want those useless slugs rotting on the taxpayers dime to pay their way.

Put them to work to earn their keep.