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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI Trump also wants foreign workers. He acknowledged that many farmers and hotels have been hurt by the raids.

Why do you think only rich people should be able to afford strawberries at $15 per?[/quote]

So we should exploit people so that low income people can afford strawberries??

More people can grow their own. Or be paid a higher wage with less downward pressure on wages, and might even be able to splurge on $15 strawberries sometimes. 
And maybe they don’t need to be a year round readily available thing.

The world is changing. Maybe teach your kids some practical skills.[/quote]
1. do you think  people in urban areas (where most people in this country live) can grow their own food? Seriously? Oh, they should move to rural areas and live in communes and grow their own food?
2. If farmers pay a higher wage, you realize that the cost will be passed on to consumers, right?  At that point, the only people who will be able to afford eating fresh produce is wealthy people. This is not just about strawberries, which is already kind of expensive.
3. We already import produce from other countries, especially during our winter.  Or are you saying that we should all live a substance living, and only eat what we can farm?

I don't know about you, but I don't relish living like a third world country where we can't get fresh produce year round.

Farmers can't raise wages that much higher without going out of business.   There is an inflection point where raising the wages causes food prices to go up so much so that the demand will go  down so much so that it will not be viable for a farmer to stay in business. As it is, taxpayers already subsidize farmers.

Farmers have, in the past, tried to increase wages to attract  American workers. It didn't work because this type of job is back breaking, something most Americans now are not used to.

If you are suggesting that Americans should go work on farms, I would suggest you and your children can go first.[/quote]

This is a pretty uniformed theory.  Less than 2% of Americans are engaged in farming.  Other countries have 10% or more engaged as farmers.  We have a very robust system where we consistently produce more than we need.  On purpose.  The idea that we would starve if we didn't have cheap labor is absurd.[/quote]
Yes, we produce more than we need, but the need isn't being met for all Americans, but somehow, you or OP, thinks the answer is to make Americans work the farms. If only farmers would raise wages, but not increase prices to the consumers.  That will surely solve the issue of low income people not being able to afford fresh produce.  After all, farmers should not be farming for profit, right?

I suppose you agree with Trump's Ag chief that medicaid recipients should work the farms instead of foreign workers?

You guys live in la la land.  Might as well promote living in communes.[/quote]

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