The Real Problem

Farmers Meet to Discuss Labor ShortageFebruary 24, 2006 - Valley farmers met Friday to work on a solution to what they call a drastic labor shortage.

They say California usually has about 560,000 seasonal workers. But this year, there are only about 220,000, a falloff of about 60%.
Growers say the labor force hasn't been this thin since the 1940's.

So, they're pushing local politicians to help as they vote on an immigration bill, designed to protect the border.

They want a guest worker program allowing them to hire immigrants and make sure those workers don't leave the farm for more lucrative work in construction.

"If the immigration bill goes through, they have to stay working in agriculture for six years," said Manuel Cunha, from the NISEI Farmers League.

Local farmers will march on Washington, D.C. next month in support of the guest worker program.

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The above farmers are dreaming if they think these people will work on the farms for six years. Even while they are working on the farms, the guest workers will most likely be applying for food stamps, housing assistance, and free medical. And the taxpayers will have to educate their children who will become high school dropouts and then the new unemployed social program abusers. It's been proven, just look at the numbers.

They had better think, otherwise they may get what they ask for and it is NOT what they want! The globalist do NOT want private enterprise. By their complaining they are cutting their own throats! The farmers do not realize that the globalist do not want subsidies as the other countries feel this is an unfair advantage. I was researching the George Mason College the other day because of an article that Virginiamamma sent me and found more than I bargained for. The George Mason College is in bed with the United Nations. The things that I read only reinforced the globalist agenda and how little we really know. American farmers better start educating themselves and stop bitching about not having enough illegals to do the work! They are advancing their own doom!

It certainly isn't for lack of labor supply. The issue is that the illegals don't want to do that anymore! They have it too good here now, and they know it. So they hide out in sanctuary cities like Austin and Phoenix and collect welfare, all the while breeding and commiting horrendous crimes.

I can't blame them! I wouldn't want to bale hay at 2 a.m. when I could be drunk thanks to the U.S. taxpayer in Las Vegas at 2 a.m. instead! It's not their fault, IT'S OURS!

Hey Melvin here is an article that might interest you on the subject of farm workers.

https://www.alipac.us/ftopict-17619-thai.html

I think they should have brought the Chinese and Japanese back in. These people would have figured out the problems with harvesting the various crops, and they would have come up with creative solutions where we would not have to use cheap labor anymore. Problem is, their children would take many of the admissions spots at top universities. They already are at schools like Berkeley where the majority are Asians.

i dont think the chinese would be a good idea- they pretty much invented peasants as a class---
another problem - is we should never have had the mexicans here doing field work in the first place-
as to finding workers to do the work- well it is now a corporate issue as almost all the small farmers are gone-
and the corporations are one of our biggest group of traitors in this whole invasion-
If - we stopped landlords from renting to illegals and if employers could not hire them for all those jobs - we might have decent wages again to attract american workers
lets keep those wages depressed !
of course there are no workers in the fields - in oregon they have all our other jobs -

i've gotta agree with Thelma here. the agriculture industry posted record profits for last year. their argument that a head of lettuce would go up to a laughable $10. a head argument is dead in the water. we now know that they can afford all manner of machinery and/or manpower to harvest crops.

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well it is now a corporate issue as almost all the small farmers are gone-

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This is exactly right. The small farmers were family operations who did everything themselves from planting time to harvest time. They hired high school kids for the big harvests and gave kids jobs.

The corporations worked hard to put them all out of business. They brought in illegal aliens to do the work by the thousands. Those illegals, like nhant...rebel said, learned that they can move to the cities and get paid for not working at all. Now there is a problem and they corporations want to import more labor to let them disappear. No thanks.