Labor shortage

Let's pick up the shovels and call things by their real names.

Immigration enforcement debate muddies farm bill
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON, Kan. | Consumers could see the price of fruits and vegetables double if the nation does not address a looming farm labor shortage in the wake of tightening immigration enforcement, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said.

Peterson, D-Minn., told producers attending the Kansas State Fair this weekend that the agriculture committee will focus on the immigration issue as it strives to do its part to make sure there is adequate labor. He said some crops will not be harvested this year unless something is done. . . .

Farmers need a realistic guest worker program, he said. . . .

. . .because, we don't have people? (Yes, it would take some "work" to get them to job sites, but what are/were the migrating legal/illegal Mexicans doing that can't be copied?)

"The number of unemployed and the unemployment rate held at 7.1 million and 4.6 percent, respectively, in August," according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And if cheap is what is needed, I suggest some of these debtors to society filling up prisons.

We have more than nine million people authorized already to work in the United States who aren't, so I don't want to hear any more fake reasons for why food is too expensive.

Or, if you really can't run an American food production program while paying living wages - meaning you have to have desperate people willing to work their fingers to the bone for a few dollars - then why isn't the Congressman just saying that?

Fact: the true cost of most things Americans eat, wear, drive, plug-in is masked by the continued complicit reliance on the poor who are willing or forced to accept low wages.

(Isn't it funny how poor people in America (including the middle classes who feel pinched) shop at Wal-Mart to save money for other things (like health insurance, for example), when the place is loaded with goods produced by people who are even poorer and who don't have televisions, cars, educations, health insurance or Wal-Marts to go to?)