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re: CA avocado farmer laments immigration crackdown- i can’t pick my crop
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:01 pm to Stingray
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:01 pm to Stingray
NC subsidized American workers for agricultural field jobs and even gave them preferential treatment. Less than 7 people lasted a year
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North Carolina needed 6,500 farm workers. Only 7 Americans stuck it out.
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When native unemployed people are referred to NCGA, they're almost without exception hired; between 1998 and 2011, 97 percent of referred applicants were hired. But they don't tend to last. In 2011, 245 people were hired out of 268 referred, but only 163 (66.5 percent) of the hired applicants actually showed up to the first day of work. Worse, only seven lasted to the end of the growing season:
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Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:05 pm to TJGator1215
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Americans don't want them
Americans don't need them to live, because Uncle Sugar is there with EBT, SNAP and Section 8.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:10 pm to navy
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I hate avocados anyway.
That's not a good position to have.
Avocados are a superfood.
They contain almost all the vitamins you need for the week, contain the healthy fat you need, they stabilize your blood sugar levels so you don't get weak during the day, improve your eyesight, help with weight loss, great for sex and fertililty as they boost testosterone and keep blood flowing to all the important parts...
Oh and researches think Avocados protect unborn babies and help fight cancer.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:13 pm to TJGator1215
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You guys won't pick crops unless it's for more than the market dictates the skill is worth?
The market isn't set by those who aren't legally allowed to be in the workforce.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:17 pm to dewster
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So he based his entire business on illegal labor?
This avocado farmer isn't the only business that depends on cheap illegal labor. Most residential construct sites, roofing companies, drywall installers, many road construction job sites, lawn care, etc. have crushed American workers and wages by hiring illegal aliens.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:18 pm to TJGator1215
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You guys won't pick crops unless it's for more than the market dictates the skill is worth?
"the market" doesn't work here b/c of social welfare programs and the minimum wage
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:33 pm to Covingtontiger77
We should have picked our own fricking cotton just like We should pick our own fricking avocados.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:34 pm to Covingtontiger77
Listen here. Pickin them thar crops is for the slave labor. Without slave labor, those poor crops just won't get picked.
I don't expect y'all cityfolk to understand. Don't take away our slaves.
I don't expect y'all cityfolk to understand. Don't take away our slaves.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:37 pm to Covingtontiger77
CA shouldn't have those crops anyway. It's a naturally arid area. Maybe if Mexico, having more suitable conditions than CA, was growing those crops, we wouldn't have this issue.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:41 pm to Covingtontiger77
Today is pay day. Can I share my American worker story with everyone?
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:08 pm to Covingtontiger77
Wrong.
He can't pick his crop at the price he wants to pay to pick it.
He can't pick his crop at the price he wants to pay to pick it.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:13 pm to Covingtontiger77
I'd suggest he change to a crop that can harvested by machines.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:14 pm to Covingtontiger77
Muh Avocados
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:18 pm to navy
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hate avocados anyway.
If there is a shortage of fresh guacamole at my favorite restaurants, I will kill a ninja
Tell this stupid duck to get a truck and go pick up homeless idiots in LA....supposedly all they need is a chance, right?
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
Laying on your arse at home playing ps4 and collecting 300 a week, or picking avocados in the hot sun for 500 per week?
Welfare Still wins.
Welfare Still wins.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:25 pm to Covingtontiger77
The irony in all of this is they'd make more money and have better working conditions as legal citizens, but stay illegal because theyd net less pay due to libs and their giraffe arse high taxes.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:28 pm to TJGator1215
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Americans don't want them
Great argument for cutting welfare. Kudos.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 9:34 pm to ClientNumber9
quote:Someone has a ... limited ... understanding of economics.
Exactly. Picking crops, like any other highly labor intensive work should come with a decent wage. Americans would pick avocados and other fruits and vegetables for $20 an hour. And then we wouldn't have to subsidize their food stamps, health care, utilities assistance, section 8 housing and welfare.
Trust me when I say that 20 cent tomato costs you a lot more than 20 cents.
If the welfare state were not subsidizing people to do nothing, Americans WOULD be picking those crops ... at a market price WELL below $20.
You cannot warp the labor market and then complain when employers seek workers elsewhere at the true equilibrium price.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 10:08 pm to Covingtontiger77
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you need these people as Plantation owners needed slaves to tend the fields.
Sums it up pretty accurately
Posted on 6/15/18 at 10:42 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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I dunno, he could always pay a decent wage to get Americans to show up.
Considering it costs $2-$5 to add guac to any dish in America you would think that the avocado farmers were paying people with doctorates to pick them.
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