ColdJoint wrote:
California has US citizens living in tent cities forced to work at the wages illegals get. Your comments are laughable exercises in desperation. You are out of touch with reality and more and more see it, and it will not stop.
TC Comment:
Your comment is laughable at how ignorant and played you are by alt right news.
All farm labor jobs in every state pays "low wages". If you were in touch with reality you would know that.
And the derogatory lingo "tent cities" is that supposed to spread fear in scared old white conservatives so they will vote for crooked republicans?
Every farm has "tent cities", so how is that for some reality?
In Maine we have hundreds of miles of blueberry and potato fields. Maine is the blueberry capital of the world. No one lives out in those farm barons and there are not stores within sometimes 20 miles. Indians and French farm migrants from Canada (and poor Mainers) come to the farms to rake berries work on the potato fields (and pick apples).
They have been doing this since way before I was born over 50 years ago.
And guess where they stay when the are out in the middle of nowhere? Well, certainly not the Holiday Inn. It is inconceivable what you actually think. They stay in tent cities. Oooooo the world is coming to an end there are those words again, "tent cities".
I lived a half hour drive from the road out to the blueberry barons and I still stayed in tents so I could get up bright and early and rake blueberries for 12 hours a day. I raked blueberries for over 30 years every summer. It is back breaking work and it is stoop labor and pays crap.
It is too bad there is not a Ramada Inn or even a house within 20 miles but with large farms, tents are all there is for accommodations. And there is also no olive garden with cherubs feeding the workers grapes and wine while fanning them in the boiling hot sweltering heat.
After the work is done the tents come down and the workers move their tents to the next inter-seasonal harvesting operation whether that be potatoes, apples or any other farm needing workers including harvesting of shellfish. Workers travel from all over the country to live in tents and help with the labor in Maine so you can feed your ungrateful pie hole with cheap affordable produce.
Yes, ten cities. You make it sound like a wall street protest but this is how farms work. SO who is the one here whose comments are a "laughable exercises in desperation"? Farms could not harvest without workers who ummm, live in tents. It is actually you CJ who are "out of touch with reality" as you swallow your right wing politics and fear mongering while our farms are leaving crops to rot in the sun and middle class people are footing the bill for your IGNORANCE.
It is not enough that people all over this country have to work the low wage jobs but you need to smear them with derogatory terminology and insult their "race" while you are at it...
Apparently you have never done farm work... your lily white soft lazy hands are used to picking your earwax rather than picking produce.
We will tell the Canadian migrants to please stay at Mar-A-Lago the next time they check in for work. Okay?
Tent cities, what a joke!
I just heard Trump Towers has a fire on the top floor?
I have not seen the news yet.
Well the Russians are probably not involved, probably some fat lady on a couch started the fire...
@TheCobbler,
Not the top floor.
And the fire department already extinguished the fire.
@oralloy,
Trump's presidency in one picture.
So much for paying the building inspectors off because of too many "regulations"...
What could go wrong?
@TheCobbler,
Trump is a moron. He doesn't understand most things he talks about, and only causes angst and confusion.
Undocumented immigrants also pay taxes... where corporations cheat so they can avoid them. Then the corporations also get uhhh, republican tax breaks and tons of tax dodging "loopholes"...
@TheCobbler,
Well said, farm work is backbreaking work. The chicken farms are a nightmare for the workers as well as the chickens, and the workers have no benefits, certainly no health care or paid vacation time. They don't sit around the pool at the end of the day and sip cocktails. There is a huge disconnect from reality for a few of the members......
TheCobbler wrote:
ColdJoint wrote:
California has US citizens living in tent cities forced to work at the wages illegals get. Your comments are laughable exercises in desperation. You are out of touch with reality and more and more see it, and it will not stop.
TC Comment:
Your comment is laughable at how ignorant and played you are by alt right news.
All farm labor jobs in every state pays "low wages". If you were in touch with reality you would know that.
And the derogatory lingo "tent cities" is that supposed to spread fear in scared old white conservatives so they will vote for crooked republicans?
Every farm has "tent cities", so how is that for some reality?
In Maine we have hundreds of miles of blueberry and potato fields. Maine is the blueberry capital of the world. No one lives out in those farm barons and there are not stores within sometimes 20 miles. Indians and French farm migrants from Canada (and poor Mainers) come to the farms to rake berries work on the potato fields (and pick apples).
They have been doing this since way before I was born over 50 years ago.
And guess where they stay when the are out in the middle of nowhere? Well, certainly not the Holiday Inn. It is inconceivable what you actually think. They stay in tent cities. Oooooo the world is coming to an end there are those words again, "tent cities".
I lived a half hour drive from the road out to the blueberry barons and I still stayed in tents so I could get up bright and early and rake blueberries for 12 hours a day. I raked blueberries for over 30 years every summer. It is back breaking work and it is stoop labor and pays crap.
It is too bad there is not a Ramada Inn or even a house within 20 miles but with large farms, tents are all there is for accommodations. And there is also no olive garden with cherubs feeding the workers grapes and wine while fanning them in the boiling hot sweltering heat.
After the work is done the tents come down and the workers move their tents to the next inter-seasonal harvesting operation whether that be potatoes, apples or any other farm needing workers including harvesting of shellfish. Workers travel from all over the country to live in tents and help with the labor in Maine so you can feed your ungrateful pie hole with cheap affordable produce.
Yes, ten cities. You make it sound like a wall street protest but this is how farms work. SO who is the one here whose comments are a "laughable exercises in desperation"? Farms could not harvest without workers who ummm, live in tents. It is actually you CJ who are "out of touch with reality" as you swallow your right wing politics and fear mongering while our farms are leaving crops to rot in the sun and middle class people are footing the bill for your IGNORANCE.
It is not enough that people all over this country have to work the low wage jobs but you need to smear them with derogatory terminology and insult their "race" while you are at it...
Apparently you have never done farm work... your lily white soft lazy hands are used to picking your earwax rather than picking produce.
We will tell the Canadian migrants to please stay at Mar-A-Lago the next time they check in for work. Okay?
Tent cities, what a joke!
@glitterbag,
When we were children, and we lived in the city of Sacramento, all my siblings and I went out to the farms to pick fruit with ladders, harvested hops in the hot sun, and stooped to pick tomatoes. We worked from sun up to sun down. I once did what is called "swamping" which is to load the truck with boxes full of fruit at .01c a box. This was in the early 1950's, but that was still slave labor. We worked along side Mexicans and blacks, but rarely saw any whites except as foreman. When you do that kind of labor, you appreciate the fact that many still work at those jobs to harvest our food. Since many Americans refuse to do that kind of work, many come over the border from Mexico to help California farms harvest our food. Without them, our agriculture will not survive.
http://articles.extension.org/pages/9960/migrant-farm-workers:-our-
nations-invisible-population
Quote:Between 1 and 3 million migrant farm workers leave their homes every year to plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack fruits, vegetables and nuts in the U.S.
@cicerone imposter,
Without the migrant workers the crops would rot in the fields. In Maryland the Chesapeake Bay is a rich source of oysters and blue channel crabs (well not in years when the Bay is unhealthy) The shell fish can be harvested by the fishermen but because it's so perishable we have a lot of guest workers who pick the meat out of steamed crabs and shuck the oysters for market. It would collapse without the guest workers, and cripple many restaurants as well as the fisherman.
