|
|
We appreciate your help
in keeping this site going.
|
|
05-12-2018, 04:32 PM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,222
|
|
'Tricked by the devil.' They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them.
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
05-12-2018, 08:25 PM
|
|
Reformed Know-Nothing
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,908
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bobabode
|
The same thing is happening among the watermen on the Chesapeake Bay. Seasonal workers aren't available to pick crab meat, something Americans simply will no longer do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...252_story.html
__________________
As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
|
05-12-2018, 09:37 PM
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 13,353
|
|
MAGA!
__________________
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -
George Orwell
|
05-13-2018, 07:01 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Derby City U.S.A.
Posts: 8,212
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by finnbow
|
Left out an important part IMO.
Barney
|
05-13-2018, 07:35 AM
|
|
AKA Sister Mary JJ
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Upper East Tennessee
Posts: 5,897
|
|
Bam!
..
__________________
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (Mark Twain)
|
05-13-2018, 08:28 AM
|
|
Reformed Know-Nothing
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,908
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oerets
Left out an important part IMO.
Barney
|
Not exactly. Legal seasonal workers have been picking crab meat on the Chesapeake for decades and there are no Americans on Maryland's Eastern Shore willing/able to do it at any price. The same is true about numerous jobs in the agriculture and hospitality industries. Trump can't snap his fingers and change that (BTW, Trump himself plans to bring in 23 foreign seasonal workers to work in his vineyard near Charlottesville this year (and has done so for years)).
__________________
As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
Last edited by finnbow; 05-13-2018 at 08:51 AM.
|
05-13-2018, 08:36 AM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
BS propaganda. They want to be able to pay under the table cheap wages.
I see them here in Brooklyn. Now the Guatemalans have replaced the Mexicans, because the Mexicans are refusing to work for what they are offering.
|
05-13-2018, 08:52 AM
|
|
Reformed Know-Nothing
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,908
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
BS propaganda. They want to be able to pay under the table cheap wages.
|
The formal H-2A visa program for seasonal workers is anything but "under the table."
__________________
As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
|
05-13-2018, 09:10 AM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by finnbow
The formal H-2A visa program for seasonal workers is anything but "under the table."
|
It is an argument being promoted as a cover for the desire for the overwhelming availability of very cheap labor.
$12 a hour in Kentucky for cutting grass and cannot find workers?
Go to Central Florida and announce that on any corner and see how many workers would be heading for Kentucky.
Last edited by Dondilion; 05-13-2018 at 09:24 AM.
|
05-13-2018, 09:48 AM
|
|
Reformed Know-Nothing
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,908
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
It is an argument being promoted as a cover for the desire for the overwhelming availability of very cheap labor.
$12 a hour in Kentucky for cutting grass and cannot find workers?
Go to Central Florida and announce that on any corner and see how many workers would be heading for Kentucky.
|
Yet another myth. People living in impoverished locales or places with poor jobs prospects are frequently emotionally tied to that place place, nonetheless. There are ample decent-paying, low-skill jobs in the DC area, but unemployed folks from West Virginia remain in West Virginia hoping that gainful employment will somehow return there.
__________________
As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:19 AM.
|