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Illegals and Lettuce: The Economy Depends upon Them
Posted by Raven on June 27th, 2007
LOL!!! I haven’t found much to laugh at these past few days…until I read this:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — It’s not every day a presidential hopeful sends Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff a head of lettuce, but that’s what Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, is doing Wednesday to show his disagreement with Chertoff’s recent comments on how failure of passing immigration reform might affect the agricultural industry.
Tancredo says he disagrees with recent comments Chertoff made that suggested if the immigration bill fails, the agricultural industry will suffer. To prove his point he is sending Chertoff a head of lettuce, a fruit basket, and a card saying, “much, much more where this comes from.”
“The administration has taken hyperbole to a whole new level this time,” Tancredo said in a statement. “They are now trying to convince the public that without amnesty, the American people are going to starve?”
“The agriculture industry and the free market has managed to keep producing through floods, droughts, and $3.00 per gallon gas,” Tancredo added, “I doubt very seriously that a nominal increase in labor costs is going to be the end of lettuce as we know it.”
NO one will starve. And let’s never underestimate the creative thinkers right here in America…who have and who will invent better more efficient and yes, cheaper methods to pick…lettuce…and apples…and every other damn fruit and veggie there is. All without increasing the price by a huge portion as some scare mongers want us to believe. We can do this, with American made products and (OMG) American workers too. Enough of the business profits-above-all-else BULLSHIT, which is exactly what this is all about!
In a July 14 speech before the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Chertoff said, “Without reform that brings workers in legitimately, that makes it efficient for businesses, including agricultural businesses, to hire those workers efficiently, and without some kind of a mechanism to promote agriculture and to deal with the current illegal work force, we’re going to put people like you and those you represent in a terrible bind — they’re either going to have to break the law, which is a bad thing to do, or they’re going to have to shut down their farms, which is a bad thing to do, or what’s going to wind up happening is those farms are going to Mexico and Canada.”
Oh puleeze. Enough with this. Why don’t OUR leaders have expectations here? WHY don’t they lead? And tell the GAWD damned businesses to STOP whining and START doing whats RIGHT for America? This means, shockingly, to offer up a better paying job so that US citizens will be attracted. The few bucks more per hour sure as hell will save this country a few TRILLION down the road.
