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‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« on: November 01, 2024, 10:33:53 am »
‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
Matt Keener
October 31, 2024

The modern business with foreign workers toiling in the fields must look like an update of the old Southern plantation. Is that really what we want?

Who will pick our apples, build our homes, and mow our lawns if not immigrants? Liberal politicians frequently ask this question, and the mainstream media repeats it. The goal is to disarm anyone questioning the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.

Never mind the elitist or racist undertones, to say nothing of any long-term concerns about demographic, cultural, political, or social changes all for the short-term benefit of cheap labor. The underlying message is that these jobs, filled by immigrants, are beneath American citizens.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/wholl-pick-apples-the-democrats-degrading-push-for-cheap-labor
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2024, 11:48:08 am »
Slavery is okay when Democrats do it.

Oh, that's right, they're the ones who did it before.
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2024, 01:03:06 pm »
One lesson you'd think we'd learned from history:

Pick your own damn cotton.
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2024, 03:47:06 pm »
My vote is for automated/robotic machinery, anyone who believes this bullshit about cheap migrant labor isn’t paying attention to the socialist democrats who are pushing for wages of $20 plus for menial/unskilled labor. All of these jobs were told we need ignorant illegals for will cease to exist and then the socialist democrats will tell us that we taxpayers must pay them for not working because they have popped large quantities of anchor babies onto the backs of American taxpayers.
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2024, 04:36:50 pm »
Prisoners?
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2024, 04:43:02 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on November 01, 2024, 04:36:50 pm
Prisoners?


Good point. But I can see a big push back from the sympathetics.
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« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2024, 05:12:13 pm »
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2024, 05:37:27 pm »
I really hate to say this, but...we will need those folks to fill  those jobs . How many young people today do you think will go pick crops, clean houses, etc.?

They should be legal and vetted. And perhaps with temporary work visas like were used in WWII.
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Re: ‘Who’ll pick apples?’ The Democrats’ degrading push for cheap labor
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2024, 02:32:41 am »
Quote from: berdie on November 01, 2024, 05:37:27 pm
I really hate to say this, but...we will need those folks to fill  those jobs . How many young people today do you think will go pick crops, clean houses, etc.?

They should be legal and vetted. And perhaps with temporary work visas like were used in WWII.
It would do young people today a world of good to go out and pick fruit or harvest food. That way, they'd know where it come from, but they might get some common sense instilled in them and maybe even a little work ethic.
In the crews, leaders will arise, not through bullying or whose daddy has the most money, but through raw ability to get people to do things and work together. A sense of teamwork could be developed, and perhaps some good-natured competition.
All in all, it is a fine opportunity for personal growth not presented by making snarky comments to an anonymous person behind a screen.

It might get them all in better physical shape, too.
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis
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