Is paying an arm and a leg for fresh produce going to be fun when all the fruit rots?

Question

You need a brain Ariana. You totally missed the point of the question. You look like a snob in your picture.

I'm a racist for supporting Mexicans? Hah, nice try levyrat.

Answer 1

This is not about corporations. Organic agriculture will be hurt.
Read: http://www.counterpunch.org/masumoto05222007.html
The people who are impoverishing you are not immigrants. Its the corporations and their war for oil. Stop the war and use the surplus to make a better country for everyone to share.
Don't let the corporations blind you. Immigrants only help.
I say, screw amnesty. It sounds as if we are being forgiven for something. Open up the border! Worker's rights should be granted to anyone who works.
Of all people to bully, working people are the stupidest choice. Why not oppose all of those fat cats who sit atop the corporations and the White House, who have never worked in their life and who waste your tax money on a senseless blood bath in Iraq.
I say down with the corporation, let's have a real free market. Open the border.

Answer 2

You obviously watched NBC news and the onion farmer last night. Did you hear what he was paying his migrant workers $10.75 an hour. It appears in his case- it was a job nobody would do- see the humor there.
That is sweet for seasonable work heck, I have worked for way less than that.
So labor is obviously not the defining factor in cost for produce or anything else. The cost of raw materials is.
Actually today in America, transporting the goods are adding to the cost of products at a faster pace than any other factor at work in the economy today.
The argument that documented labor is going to bankrupt the American consumer is hog f-ing wash and anybody with an IQ higher than their shoe size knows it.

Edit: Bob I have got a garden myself as a hobby, another one of those thing Americans won't do.
Oddly enough I am surrounded by American owned and American worked strawberry /tomato farms, not to mention the beef and sheep raised in the area as well.

Answer 3

It will encourage Americans to grow their own produce, which is a healthier, safer alternative anyway. Others will have to pay what the produce is worth, because the corporations running the farms will have to pay decent wages. Losing the immigrant fruit pickers is all benefit and no drawback.

And racists like who who support slavery will have to find something else to whine about.

Addition: gabie asks, "I'm a racist for supporting Mexicans?" Another irony meter blown. Too bad he'll never understand just how racist *and* hypocritical his comment is.

JMB

Answer 4

If the the producers could cut the price of the produce becase sold illegal drugs, should we let that slide also?

Illegals may earn a smaller paycheck, but everyone's taxes and insurance rates rise to cover the benefits they receive and to cover the bills they can't pay for medical visits.

There is no savings, only more debt.

Answer 5

I think i'll be ok

you see, i spend less than $40,000 for fruit and vegitables

$40,000 is what this amnesty will cost a family of 4

2.5 trillion/300 million * 4

like every other pro-illegal arguement, you have to resort to lies

labor on a head of lettuce is about 10 cents tripple the wages and hire americans, the labor for the head of lettuce 'skyrockets' to 30 cents

big woop

(I've walked beans, detassled corn, washed dishes, and integrated enrgy trading systems - all 'jobs americans wont do', and my family's been here for 140 years)

funny how 'shortage shouters' always talk about stuff 'rotting in the fields'

where's they get the labor to plant it? ;)

Answer 6

So you must be one of the people who thinks that the money that Corporations save by hiring illegals is passed on as savings to the consumer. I find that kind of naive nature a little sad actually,but whatever.

AD

Answer 7

I really do not think that the fresh produce would rot.
come on get real.
If Mexicans will not do it.
Then the Farmers would have to hire on some-one else.
Like Americans.

Answer 8

I'd rather pay an arm and a leg for fresh produce and have legal workers picking it then pay cheap prices and have illegals picking it. Plan and simple. Capitalism at it's finest.

Answer 9

The other day I bought a Tomato for my ultimate Spam sandwich, Yum!
That darn tomato was $1.70 a pound and last year (This time of year) they were $1 a pound. It was not fun, but, I bought it, because Spam goes good with a slice of tomato and mayo.

Answer 10

Well, we're paying either way so I'm not sure I'm any worse off if produce cost more. We grow a lot of our own anyway.