Thread: Farmers & business': more & more stories!

Have you noticed there are more sob stories about farmers and business owners not going to be able to find workers, if they have to follow our immigration laws?

These stories are gaining ground, and we need to start emailing the newspapers in those towns.

Some stories might say, they need these laborers, no American will do the job..

Others say, we don't have the time or resources to check out the legality of our workers we hire.

Then we have the "our crops are going to rot."

Yet, one article I read, the business' said they didn't have workers, because for years they never paid a good wage, and now all the young citizens are leaving their area for bigger and better places...yet they still say the need workers......which is probably a plea for the illegal aliens to work.

We've got to keep on top of this.

Farmers have painted themselves into a corner. Bad decisions give bad results. They have chosen for decades to use illegal invaders for labor and are now reaping the consequences. I have no sympathy. Let the chips fall where they may and I'm sure that to some extent "We the People" will experience some negative consequences for not holding these people responsible for their illegal activity.

Don't blame it all on the farmers. Up until the late 1970's the United States government had facilitated mechanization in agricultural harvesting. This was reversed by the Carter administration and by litgation initiated by farmworker organizations to protect their interests.

Other countries have moved ahead with developing machines to harvest crops. Australia, for example, has huge agricultural potential, but very little labor that they can import, or want to import. So they have had to mechanize more than the US. At least the technology is available---if not from US companies from overseas manufacturers. Even China has some technology that we don't have. But both academic interests and businesses realize there will be a growing demand for technology. Universities still do have programs that are designed to improve farming methods.

We have had some other posts on alternatives to imported labor. It takes time, though, to get the word out. Maybe you can help do that.

moosetracks wrote:

Have you noticed there are more sob stories about farmers and business owners not going to be able to find workers, if they have to follow our immigration laws?

That's the Bush plan. His administration and the Chamber of Commerce figures if the farmers and businesses yell loud enough Congress will act to give them relief in the form of another guest-worker program. It's all part of the calculated plan to push the Ag JOBS program through and get Congress to legalize the tens of millions of illegals currently residing in the United States.

Originally Posted by MW

moosetracks wrote:

Have you noticed there are more sob stories about farmers and business owners not going to be able to find workers, if they have to follow our immigration laws?

That's the Bush plan. His administration and the Chamber of Commerce figures if the farmers and businesses yell loud enough Congress will act to give them relief in the form of another guest-worker program. It's all part of the calculated plan to push the Ag JOBS program through and get Congress to legalize the tens of millions of illegals currently residing in the United States.

You've hit the nail on the head MW.



Let's all start our own gardens folks. I think we may need to do that. Hey we don't want anything from China anymore - no matter what.

Almost sounds like a decent plan.

But...as the politicians recently were painfully reminded when push comes to shove orgainizations, PAC's, farms and businesses still can't vote, but American Citizens certainly can and will!

Immigration is the issue which showed the internet has made politics a whole new game, imagine the professional politicians fear... voters who know what is going on and are following the votes of those they elected, accountability!!!Keep the lights shining on them and it becomes real hard for them to do the wrong thing.