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Originally Posted by Awesome!  How much would you expect to make per hour picking fruit, veggies? Please name your hourly wage... |
Backing in to answering your question, the average American household spends about $1.00 a day on fresh fruits and vegetables. Of that $1.00 a whopping 6-8% represents labor. Do the math. The farmer makes his profit, but most of the price of produce is tied up in distribution and the middleman costs. Without illegal Mexican poverty reject scabs to step in and pick the crops, farmers are going to have to redevelop the sources of labor they had before this 19th century workforce was allowed to decend on America. If the farmers had to increase the wages they pay for legal labor to say 12% of the price of produce, that would mean that the average household pays maybe $1.04 a day for their fresh fruits and vegetables.
To save that .04 a day, we're supposed to let in illegal labor and their families, which has overwhelmed our ERs, bankrupted our hospitals, overcrowded and is ruining our school, filled our prisons with criminal illegals, and not to mention, brought in all of those, future Democrat voters if amnestied, illegals, etc.