4 ms·

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/farmers-strain-to-hire-american-workers-in-place-of-migrant-labor.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/farmers-strain-

• rgbrenner 9y ago
  Because they pay near minimum wage for dangerous, temporary, hard work. No sane person with any other options would take that trade
  • stickfigure 9y ago
    ...which should make you think long and hard about what people are being forced back into now that this avenue of work is cut off.
    • mieseratte 9y ago
      So let's hurt our own citizens for the benefit of other nationalities who are willing to demonstrate their disrespect for our laws, for the benefit of greedy business owners?
• RestlessMind 9y ago
  "Most americans are unwilling to work on farms..." at the wages offered by farm owners!!! This is very similar to arguments trotted out in support of shitty H1B jobs. You want workers for your jobs? Increase the wages. Increased wages will make you raise the prices for your customers? Do so, or find the efficiencies in your business. Increased wages might drive consumers to produce grown in foreign countries? Have appropriate trade agreements protecting vital industries like agriculture, similar to what we have for defense (and after all, trade agreements are not a suicide pact (TM)).
  • hprotagonist 9y ago
    do you have any idea how deeply subsidized farms are in the US?