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Default OT: Wake Up And Smell The Invasion !!!!


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Doubling the wages of the lettuce picker wouldn't come close to
doubling
the cost of lettuce. It may add a few pennies per head, but that's
it.

That's based on an incorrect assumption. I would expect a teacher to
stumble
here. You did.


right

Proud of that?

right

You're already dead. Can't afford the funeral?


You ever watched them pick and pack lettuce?


No. Local lettuce here is usually of such small quantity that families (on
farms) pick it themselves. However, I *have* watched squash, strawberries,
cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and other "ground crops" being harvested.
Tough work.


They ride a machine and cut the head off and toss it on a conveyer belt up
to a processing stand. Time spent per head is minimal.