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[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Ok, so we all know illegal immigrants are taking our jobs. So if you are out of work an/or unemployed, here's your chance to take away a job from an illegal immigrant.

http://takeourjobs.org/

This is pure genius. The right should like this because it will allow all those wallowing in the generosity of unemployment to find jobs. The left should like it because it is a program of the Communist United Farm Workers Union.

So here is my question: Do you know anybody who has signed up? I would ask this group personally, but if you were a farm worker, you would not have time to read this community because you'd be working 12 hours a day without overtime and would not have wi-fi access.

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[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

'Yeah, except you missed one glaring fact. No one in this country is willing to pay $4.00 for a head of lettuce'

I really doubt we'd see that. Or if we did inflation from larger wages would make it not altogether awful.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

See my reply to Mike just below. The only way to "cure" the illegal worker "problem" in the farming sector is to seriously crack down on the employers who hire them (and, in turn, offer those jobs to American workers at a significantly higher wage). But if/when you do that, be prepared to either pay a lot more for domestically-produced meat, vegetables and fruit, or start buying it almost exclusively from foreign producers. Either way, the sudden loss of cheap domestic labor in the industry will cripple it.

Personally, I think that if the fed and/or state governments step in with necessary law enforcement measures against law-breaking employers, the enormously powerful ag lobby will scream "big government takeover!" bloody murder and force their elected lackeys in Washington - on both sides of the aisle - to buckle.