US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation
US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation
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You'd think farmers of all people would understand that you reap what you sow.
Across the road from my street is a Nursery/Lawn care place staffed completely with latin American immigrants. The owner plastered his business with Trump signs. The owner is a retired cop. One of his signs even said "Trump, I'm voting for the felon."
I know it's really wrong for the immigrants, but I want to report him the second Trump's militarized deportation starts.
Yeah, I completely understand, even as a child of immigrants.
Americans have done this shitty song and dance for four decades now where Republicans are two-faced assholes where they complain about immigrants but want cheap immigrant labor. They need to learn and learn hard that their hypocrisy has a cost.
Not just the loss in cheap labor, but also in "free" social security taxes (that such workers don't end up claiming).
I want to report him the second Trump's militarized deportation starts.
Please do. These people desperately need to directly experience the problems they voted into office.
Generally, farmers bitch and cry about anything and everything, except for the things they actually should care about. Like sustainably, and corporate ownership of supply chains that collude on prices and distribution networks while putting all the risk on farmers.
They are one of the more entitled voter blocks who live in a zero sum, anything to 'survive' at the expense of everything else mentality.
We'd have dust bowl events every 5 years if farmers had their way. It's absolutely an industry that demands government intervention, because sustainability isn't short term profitable.
I'm not suggesting that farmers are inherently bad/greedy/destructive of the environment, as the food supply chain often forces farmers to act this way, but that doesn't change their current attitudes and approach to agriculture.
My farmchair quarterback call is that Farmers crop yields should be half of their income, and sustainable practices, limited fertilizer and pesticide use, and overall soil quality and health should act as a multiplier to crop yields. So lower yields but better farming practices pays more than high yield, environment destroying, agriculture
Congratulations you have lost the next election because food prices went up
Yep. I spent many years among these people. They'd bitch about "government" even as it propped them up and kept them whole.
Zing!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week!