ok everyone let's get to work?

Question

ok everyone let's get to work those vegetables and fruits aren't going to pick themselves.

http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=792&ArticleID=20032

Answer 1

"Phillip Martin, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has demolished the argument that a crackdown on illegals would ruin it, or be a hardship to consumers. Most farming — livestock, grains, etc. — doesn't heavily rely on hired workers. Only about 20 percent of the farm sector does, chiefly those areas involving fresh fruit and vegetables.

The average "consumer unit" in the U.S. spends $7 a week on fresh fruit and vegetables, less than is spent on alcohol, according to Martin. On a $1 head of lettuce, the farm worker gets about 6 or 7 cents, roughly 1/15th of the retail price. Even a big run-up in the cost of labor can't hit the consumer very hard.

Martin recalls that the end of the bracero guest-worker program in the mid-1960s caused a one-year 40 percent wage increase for the United Farm Workers Union. A similar wage increase for legal farm workers today would work out to about a 10-dollar-a-year increase in the average family's bill for fruit and vegetables. Another thing happened with the end of the bracero program: The processed-tomato industry, which was heavily dependent on guest workers and was supposed to be devastated by their absence, learned how to mechanize and became more productive."


If every illegal alien here today currently left America, the immediate economic impact would be insignificant and over the long haul, the impact would likely be negligible.


The other-80%-90% farmers of the world will take care of the people here
We don't depend on them at all

Answer 2

When they begin to offer such employment in my area at a reasonable wage we will. Is it worth more to the growers to let the fruit rot or to offer a decent wage to people willing to work? From the sound of that article they'd rather let it spoil while whining for illegal immigrants to be allowed to help them. Why not put an ad in the paper offering temporary work to US citizens? Minimum wage won't break the bank, I'm sure. But the growers don't want to lose ANY of the profits they have become accustomed to so they'd rather screw us all over to teach us a lesson.

Answer 3

I was so desperate once that I offered the services of myself and my preteen son, two for the price of one, at minimum wage, which was probably 3 or 4 $ per hour ...to pick fruit. No. He says. An illegal mexican man will do three times as much for half as much. NO CONCERN WHATSOVER about women and children in his own country. Typical rich jerk.

Answer 4

It really sucks for them when they have to pay minimum wages for employees....good....

The growers are whining because they WILL have to pay legal wages instead of dog wages....and their huge profits have taken wings and are flying out the window...they have made killer money for years hiring illegals.....

LET'S CRY A LOT OF CROCODILE TEARS FOR THE WEALTHY LANDOWNERS WHO ARE LOSING THEIR SLAVE LABOR....AND REJOICE BECAUSE THE ILLEGALS ARE ON THE RUN!

I'm delighted, bout time! Oh, I worked in my garden several hours today....and the vegetables are coming along just fine...

Answer 5

Lame

Answer 6

OKAY HOW MUCH CAN I KEEP FOR MYSELF AND MY FAMILY? WE SURE WILL APPRECIATE ALL WE CAN GET FREE BECAUSE FRUIT AND VEGGIES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUY AT STORE OKRA IS ALMOST 5.00 PER LB HERE AND TOMATOES COST 3.00 FOR 1 LARGE GOOD ONE AND SO ON SO I AM WILLING TO PICK THE CROP.

Answer 7

Yeah, sure. Like that's going to happen. Suddenly, not enough Mexicans

Answer 8

Mexicans are # 1 , lazy Americans #0.000000 lol

Answer 9

leave the plant-picking for the mexicans

Answer 10

I hope you don't mind if I use that article,because I am.