'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers
'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers
In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
- Farmhands deported, can't find replacements
- $200k labor grant suspended indefinitely
- Lost subsidies, making less money on product
- Tariffs jacked up equipment prices and repairs
- Depends on Medicaid, no insurance if it's cut
Oh boy, way to seriously fuck yourself from every conceivable angle, smart guys. Sumo wrestler lookin leopards after this one.
They'll start calling to use prison labor soon enough. Prisons are commercial facilities anyway and could use some cash. And there are more African American in prison proportionally so that's a bonus for MAGA. Police will get their cut for putting more people in prison. That way the new racist slave labor gets established.
Importing workers to make 16.84/hr. Just what American is going to accept that kind of wage when the boss is getting grants of hundreds of thousands of dollars?
The immigrant would have to work 11,876 hours to earn the 200k handout that the boss gets for hiring him seasonally for two years. How is this sustainable? Are we all going to be working to subsidize farmers by 100k/year to hire a single foreign farmhand?
Not to mention the program for that grant has only 141 members... it just doesn't make sense.
I thought that Covid would have been enough of a trial run for that.
At least in my country it was that. You know, it was Covid, with the highest unemployment rate since quite a long time, and farmers ran nation-wide ads looking for workers. They increased the pay sometimes up to 2-3x. They promised housing in nice hotels. And still, nobody wanted to do the job and that year there was just no strawberries on the shelves.
The only way working as a farm hand makes sense is if:
- The workers have no decent other option
- Working on a farm is safer than working at home
- Money is worth a lot more where they are from, so that the meagre salary they make in the target country is worth multiple times of that back home, so that the €1000-1200 they make over here turn into the equivalent purchasing power of €4000-6000 back home.
They promised JJ 100,000 a year to hire illegals and whatever other farm subsidies AND his whole family is on Medicaid. Is he literally that bad at living off farming, rather than welfare, or is he also committing fraud?
Why is a welfare queen (by the original definition) voting Republican
The idea is so badly implemented... you have to raise back Unions and decent salaries, what they expecting is that actual born americans will do the same job for the same shit money that desperate migrants who have absolutely nothing.
So in essence they want the new slaves to be US born, yeah fuck that.
It's almost as if immigrants are a big source of exploitable labor that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning. Who would've thought?
At least they are removing all those gang members from the fields
In a place where local, legal help was nearly impossible to keep<' the Post is reporting before adding, "But then Trump,
At least three typo mistakes in this article. The degree of publish-fast-don't-edit in our "journalism" is off the scale. I hate it.
Anyway, this is what you voted for, asshole.
I heard this story during his last administration. Assclowns never learn.
remind me of the post after brexit
capitalism suddenly stops believing in the supply demand graph once coercion is off the table
Stupid cunts.
Good! No exploiters should be able to sustain their practices.
This called having the day you voted for
"THEY TUK URR JERBS!!!!"
Morons
Way to screw all of us over your jingoism
Listen up, MAGAt American farmer:
You better keep your prices low, or I won't buy as much American food!
What’s funny is the old idea that book nerds know things but farmers do things is a source of pride for farmers.
The reality is that farmers are just nerds also.
Yet they think of themselves as something else, like mythical strong men beasts who feed the rest of us useless folks.
The real strong men are the very immigrants that do the literal toiling while the farmers are basically like mini CEOs by comparison
Their rejection of the very nerdiness thst gives them their mystique is ironic
They are smart enough to turn land into food
But not smart enough to realize how they actually do it
No-one want to be exploited any more!
Well this is good
You can't expect a good end for the net negative incentives all the collectivist immigrant policies created during this time. Here is the backlash.
Ironic for people that keep saying to have empathy for others, and yet everything they do keeps increasing human suffering.
Great idea guys
Yeah let's allow everyone to enter the country. Where will they work, how will they provide for themselves? What do you say? Not our problem now!
Ah but y'all knew the incentive was already there. People desperate for work and people in need of cheap labor go hand in hand
An industry can't be based on cheap exploited labor just like that
Now the guys who you hate have to undo what you did
Now they need to remove the incentive on why people come to the US in the first place and the ones related to companies not having actual consequences to hiring illegal inmigrants
Shit will get expensive? Sure, but it will be worth it right?
People will need to work more? Of course, every poor citizen of the us usually has to work their ass of. But now much more
The cheap food and goods festival over? Well, about time
Good thing mossad infiltrated USA, otherwise it would be too overpowered.
Good thing mossad infiltrated USA, otherwise it would be too overpowered.
