On 10 Sep 2006 06:19:17 -0700, "basskisser" wrote:


Bill Kearney wrote:
Damn, you are dumber than a post, huh? They can't find the labor to
pick the crops, period. Who will they hire? Idiot, indeed. You was
wrong, and still are.

And you apparently miss the larger issue of wages not be adjusted to fit
market demands. This whole argument about foreign workers is a smokescreen
clouding the real issue of wages being far too low. The days of racing to
the bottom to get illegals to do the work for next to nothing are rapidly
coming to a close. Wages will have to rise and that will certainly affect
market prices. But as they've been artifically low for over two decades
it's coming time to see them adjust. Blame yourselves for pretending you
could get everything for low prices, you can't and it's now becoming
painfully clear.

Smokescreen? Do you honestly think that CA farmers WANT 30% of their
profit rotting on the trees????

The bottom line is economic slavery for some more dark-skinned people. It
wasn't enough that we had slavery and fought a civil war over it. Now, we're
trying to do it again with a different group, and with their participation.

Its way past time for this industry to automate. This means crop harvesting
_machines_ doing the work. Is it more expensive than slave-labor wages? Of
course! Is it the right thing to do? Absolutely.

Paying people peanuts is wrong, and it doesn't matter who they are. Can't get
the natives to spend all day in the hot sun stooping over and picking your
tomatoes or carrots or whatever for what you want to pay them? Tough - buy a
machine to do it. You can likely get 1 machine operator, who will replace
dozens of manual workers, and get the harvest done. That's the way to handle
this.

The bottom line is no more slavery - not ball and chain slavery and not
economic slavery. Slavery is always a bad idea, no matter how you try to dress
it up.

Dave Head