FEAR.

[Kane]

lolol

It's lettuce guys.

One of two things will happen if foreign labor isn't allowed to fill in:

- the farmer will change the crop to something that can be harvested using less labor (mechanization)
- the farmer will buy something that allows for mechanization to fill the gap (depends on the crop - not everything is easily picked by machine)

Bottom line: less jobs not more

We're just making the country less competitive in a given market/commodity while our competitors reap the rewards while also pressuring farms to modernize to the extent that they don't need to rely on outside labor (outside meaning labor at all - domestic and foreign).

[John Galt]

[Spider]

[jimmyz]

[Spider]

The trouble is that ignorant people don't have a grasp of basic economics. Immigration is a major driver of economic growth in this country. We generate a LOT more growth/wealth from these immigrants, their descendants, and their labor than we'll ever pay out in human services. Hell, without immigrants we'd probably have a negative fertility rate. We'd contract, as a people.

You can't explain this to them, because then the last bullshit shield they hide their hatred behind dissolves.

[spacemonkey]

What is being done is have a legitimate, permanent underclass. America does not have plenty for all, forever. It will be our version of the India caste system.

[spacemonkey]

[Spider]

For the country, you uneducated derelict. For the national economy. For your countrymen, not that you give a shit.

And no, offshore manufacturing is not the same as domestic population and thus economic growth for f**k's sake lol.

[spacemonkey]

[Spider]

Can't you read. I said US. This is the US. UNITED STATES. United States of America. You know, that place you are cheering the shit smearing of.

THAT is where on the globe we are talking about.

READ.