Thread: NorCal Farmers Worry Fruit Will Rot On Trees

Originally Posted by ICEChargerRT

Maybe they can drive down to a local Norcal area Home Depot parking lot, plenty of illegal aliens still standing around available. Oh yeah, they must need the illegal aliens that are doing the jobs Americans and our present bunch of 38 million? illegal aliens won't do...Sounds like some planted B/S story by California's Senators.

Isn't that the truth. Just go to any construction site and "draft" them for picking the fruit they use to pick before they took away a job from an American friend. Hogwash to all of it.

If a farmer has a set goal of earning $1,000,000 a year based on X amount of crop, they will find means to still make that $1,000,000 a year.

This might mean they will have to pay a person who is legal more than the illegals.. But what is their alternative? If they produce half their normal crop and only bring in $500 K, they aren't meeting their income goals.

So in the long term, the farmers will figure out a way to produce their normal amount of crops.

As for the short term of produce going up, who cares.. it's not going to double or triple in price anyways.. might go up 5-15% in termoparily, but it'll come down.

And where we pay more in produce, we will save in the amount of tax payer money used to fund the jails that house a lot of illegals, the hospitals that helps them when their hurt, etc..

So I don't care if I have to pay $0.50 per a banana vs $0.35 per banana to keep them out.

Good points Deputy

I say, bring in the mechanical pickers and out for good with the illegal pickers!

You want to bet that the mechanical pickers would be sooooo much more sanitary than worrying what the illegals might be doing to our "fresh" food!!

But, OF COURSE, the U.S. Government would NEVER allow all mechanical pickers, as they're also too addicted to the slave labor. They already prevented mechanical lettuce pickers from taking hold of the industry as early as 1965!!!!

Look at this excerpt from a Time Magazine article from 1967!!!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... -1,00.html

While machinery has eliminated plenty of agricultural jobs, sometimes it works the other way around, with labor shortages causing "forced mechanization." In the case of tomatoes, field workers, turning from arduous stoop work to higher-paying jobs in town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California."

As they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We're in the same boat AGAIN as in the 1960's!

Go FULLY mechanical, people, and STOP BRINGING IN new waves of illegals to man the fields! You EARN MORE MONEY going mechanical (less labor costs, no supervisors, etc, etc.) Once you pay off the machine, it's ALL PROFIT!

Texas Gal