'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

[CaughtInThe]

Good job MAGAs/MAGA kids who, you know, eat.



"In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised helpis uncertain."

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"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant ... "But then Trump, in the earliest days of his second term, threatened to break tens of thousands of those deals, suspending billions in agricultural funding and decimating the staffs that managed it. Swept up in the freeze was JJ and the $50 million grant program he’d signed up for along with 140 other farmers across the country."

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Noting, "JJ had joined 81 percent of Yuma County’s voters in supporting Trump, whom he considered the better of two bad options," the report added, "JJ’s grant was frozen in late January as top administrators considered whether to cancel it. Over the next two months, more than 20 farmers requested $4 million owed to them, according to documents reviewed by The Post. None were paid."

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk...

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[CaughtInThe]

“I’ve employed Americans, and they quit after a few days,” lamented Wisconsin Tracy Vinz, “They quit after a few hours.”

Georgia produce farmer Mitch Lawson claimed he "lost nearly two dozen American employees before he qualified for $200,000," with Lawson stating, "I’ve had a couple who didn’t even last a whole day."

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Rogue Valley]

Lol. Americans aren't going to work in agricultural fields or in an abattoir.

Where I live, I have yet to see a caucasian American doing landscaping work or tree removal.

 

[Girlpower]

Good job MAGAs/MAGA kids who, you know, eat.



"In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised helpis uncertain."

...

"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant ... "But then Trump, in the earliest days of his second term, threatened to break tens of thousands of those deals, suspending billions in agricultural funding and decimating the staffs that managed it. Swept up in the freeze was JJ and the $50 million grant program he’d signed up for along with 140 other farmers across the country."

...

Noting, "JJ had joined 81 percent of Yuma County’s voters in supporting Trump, whom he considered the better of two bad options," the report added, "JJ’s grant was frozen in late January as top administrators considered whether to cancel it. Over the next two months, more than 20 farmers requested $4 million owed to them, according to documents reviewed by The Post. None were paid."

'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk...

www.rawstory.com

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

The end of the world is here.

 

[j brown's body]

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

The end of the world is here.

Ever heard of the metaphor "like a canary in a coal mine?"

 

[RF667799]

Lol. Americans aren't going to work in agricultural fields or in an abattoir.

Where I live, I have yet to see a caucasian American doing landscaping work or tree removal.

OTOH, I see them a lot.

 

[Michael Cole]

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

You must be in the wrong thread. The article doesn't mention strawberries.

The end of the world is here.

For these farmers, it is. That's the point of the thread.

Do you not care about American farmers? Are you some kind of liberal elite city-slicker? Yeah, that's it. A dirty liberal who hates rural America.

 

[SCrider]

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

The end of the world is here.

I imagine you subsist on a diet of highly processed foods and not fresh fruit and vegetables.

 

[dmpi]

Are these activist farmers even REAL farmers? If you really want he truth then you need to watch food prices and the commodity futures market.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

The end of the world is here.

The above post is a coping mechanism.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Are these activist farmers even REAL farmers?

Of all the people I've encountered in my life you might be the most lost.

 

[Michael Cole]

Are these activist farmers even REAL farmers?

No, they're liberal commie judges in disguise.

If you really want he truth then you need to watch food prices and the commodity futures market.

Trump was asked to make some orange juice. He loves oranges!!!

The can said, "orange concentrate," so Trump watched...and watched...and watched...

 

[Girlpower]

You must be in the wrong thread. The article doesn't mention strawberries.


For these farmers, it is. That's the point of the thread.

Do you not care about American farmers? Are you some kind of liberal elite city-slicker? Yeah, that's it. A dirty liberal who hates rural America.

What they are saying is that they can no longer find someone to work the farms for 2 dollars an hour.

Why do you support slave wages?

 

[Michael Cole]

What they are saying is that they can no longer find someone to work the farms for 2 dollars an hour.

Now I know you're in the wrong thread. Just wake up from a dream?

Why do you support slave wages?

I see you haven't yet wakened up.

Your dream is concocting some bizarre fantasy. No one is being paid $2 an hour, therefore you need to wake up and smell the strawberries.

Farmers are going bankrupt. Again, you are obviously a liberal commie pinko city-slicker who cares not about rural Americans.

 

[CaughtInThe]

No, they're liberal commie judges in disguise.

 

[CaughtInThe]

What they are saying is that they can no longer find someone to work the farms for 2 dollars an hour.

Why do you support slave wages?

They weren't slave wages to the people who were working those jobs. After their careers they would go back home and be massively more wealthy.

A very savvy move by them.

But that's gone so get your checkbook out. Or get out there and work those fields yourself. Or make your kids get out there and work those fields.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Oh My God, we are all going to starve because white people don't know how to pick strawberries!!

The end of the world is here.

Starve no, just have expensive strawberries, expensive peaches etc

And republican farmers will go broke

 

[Girlpower]

They weren't slave wages to the people who were working those jobs. After their careers they would go back home and be massively more wealthy.

A very savvy move by them.

But that's gone so get your checkbook out. Or get out there and work those fields yourself. Or make your kids get out there and work those fields.

So, you support paying people slave wages because overall it's better than what they were making?

Do you have no morals whatsoever?

That's like supporting slavery because the slaves were being fed by their masters with better meals they would find otherwise.

Wow.

 

[Michael Cole]

So, you support paying people slave wages because overall it's better than what they were making?

Do you have no morals whatsoever?

That's like supporting slavery because the slaves were being fed by their masters with better meals they would find otherwise.

Wow.

Farmworkers in California are paid minimum wage or more, which is currently $16.50.

Your source of information is lying to you. What or who might that source be?

 

[Girlpower]

Starve no, just have expensive strawberries, expensive peaches etc

And republican farmers will go broke

I am willing to pay an extra few cents to ensure farm workers are paid a decent wage, have rights, and are in a safe work environment.

It's sad so many of you aren't.

You are some very cold people.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Starve no, just have expensive strawberries, expensive peaches etc

And republican farmers will go broke

Yup

And then the giant agriculture companies will buy up all their land.

So MAGAs are going to force small (MAGA) farmers out of business so that really really rich people can get really really more rich.

They are literal idiots.

 

[Girlpower]

Farmworkers in California are paid minimum wage or more, which is currently $16.50.

Your source of information is lying to you. What or who might that source be?

Then why do only migrants work there?

There are plenty of other shitty jobs people do for minimum wage.

 

[CaughtInThe]

So, you support paying people slave wages because overall it's better than what they were making?

Quit lying and saving they are slave wages to the people who are making 10 and 20 times more than they could make at home. That's just a gigantic lie that makes you seem totally uninformed.

If you could move to Canada and make 10 or 20 times what you're currently making would you do it? Would it be smart?

But I do like the way you guys have transitioned to blaming MAGA/Republican CEOs and business owners.

 

[SCrider]

Then why do only migrants work there?

There are plenty of other shitty jobs people do for minimum wage.

you ever spent 10+ hours in a field in 90* heat doing hard labor?