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American Farmers Moving To Mexico As Illegals Forced To Leave
February 23, 2008 Sean Wilson--
Cheap labor barons have been hurt by the lack of cheap labor in the form of illegal aliens. In fact, some have been hurt so much that they are moving their businesses. Where else would they move them, but Mexico?
Farmers Would Rather Move Farming To Mexico Than Pay Americans Better Wages—The Lie Is Exposed
Some American farmers are moving south of the border, renting and leasing large parcels of land to farm. That’s right, these farmers simply do not want to pay better wages to Americans.
The whole lie that Americans won’t do the work that illegals aliens do is just that—a lie. We are starting to see the truth come to light. People who have been hiring illegal aliens would rather take their businesses to Mexico than pay American workers wages consistent with the standard of living in America.
These farmers still argue that Americans don’t want farm jobs. That’s another lie. The media is always quick to attempt frightening Americans with tales of impending economic doom that will result if we stop illegal immigration. There are plenty of Americans who will do farm work—just not for the wages that farmers pay illegal aliens. That is basic economics.
Why do you think we have tens of thousands of legal immigrants from Mexico and India each year while just a bit over 2000 from Ireland for example? Do cheap labor barons want more immigrants from nations that have the highest standard of living in Europe and that will expect decent wages, or do they want those immigrants from nations that have large populations that will work for low wages? That, too, is economics—just not what they love to point out in your college economics classes.
Cheap labor is at the center of this issue on the one hand. On the other, it is about greedy people who would rather move their business overseas than pay wages more in line with a nation that has a higher standard of living. Just because it involves agriculture does not mean that wages should not increase as in other sectors. If a nation’s standard of living increases to the point that no one wants to do a particular kind of labor for the wages paid to perform that job, either wages must go up or you must find a way to lower production and labor costs—or you go out of business.
Most people will say that they are only doing what is smart from a business standpoint and moving a business out of the USA as other companies have done. This is true and that is also basic economics. It is also true that they are creating vulnerabilities in the American economy and our national security by their doing so, and that is called your basic greed. The problem with all outsourcing is that it creates vulnerabilities outside the control of the entity doing the outsourcing.
Imagine what happens, for example, if tens of thousands of workers in India go on strike to protest a policy in the USA. Big deal, you say? It is if they happen to be the outsourced workers that deal with credit card processing as many American firms have come to rely on. Think in terms of tens of millions of dollars of damage done to the American economy every day as part of a strike, by foreign workers working for American companies who have no loyalty to anything but profit.
Similarly, what happens when farm workers strike and we can’t even hire those willing to work to keep produce in the markets—because the farms are in Mexico? What happens if the Mexican government is overthrown and American farmers in Mexico end up feeding the next peoples revolution of Mexico rather than Americans? What will happen to millions of Americans across the nation? On any given day, there is enough food in a major American city to last about three days in the event of a major disaster (such as when Katrina hit New Orleans) before we would see mass starvation and the accompanying chaos as fighting broke out over dwindling supplies.
You think this is far fetched?
Some brilliant minds have postulated these very scenarios, and some are thinking up solutions that will protect us from potential vulnerabilities to our society in the future, including the agriculture and economic implications.
John McCain Still Supports Amnesty
Senator McCain claims he heard the people’s message on immigration. Did he? He wants you to think he did.
He says we should secure the border and then address other issues after that’s done. What he means is that we secure the borders and since we will then have 12 million illegal aliens trapped inside the country we’ll just go ahead and give them amnesty.
“I still believe we have to have a temporary worker program that works and addresses the issues of the 12 million people that are here illegally.”
— John McCain - Weare, NH, December 2007
(Source: ABC News)
That’s not new. He’s been sticking to that for some time…
“Very seldom have I seen an issue that aroused this much passion with the American people. No one is for amnesty. I and the president came forward with a plan that we thought was comprehensive and workable with the priority being border security, which remains my position. Why we failed is because the American people have lost trust and confidence in us. We have to succeed, because there’s 12 million people who are in this country illegally, which is de facto amnesty, and we need a temporary worker program.”
— John McCain - GOP debate, Univ. of NH, September 2007
(Source: OnTheIssues.org)
Do you know where the next war Americans will fight is likely to take place? Right here, on our own soil is the thought of many people. Why? You should watch the movie, Border, which shows you just why.
Do you remember the incident where National Guardsmen allowed armed Mexicans into our country? Did you know that they encountered them where armed Mexicans were filmed a year and a half earlier by the maker of the film, Border? Did you know that the Border Patrol in the interim had asked for copies of this movie to use to train their agents as they thought it might help save lives?
Your government, the government of the United States of America, knew precisely where to find these armed illegal aliens crossing the border, and yet it was a year-and-a-half before they confronted them. And then the Guardsmen backed down when they did.
Oh, and our same cowardly, laggardly, ineffective government that doesn’t want to offend Mexico threatened to arrest the filmmaker, Chris Burgard, if he ever went back there to film again.
Here is another example of why the war will be here…in the words of those believe they are already at war with the USA
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http://errantmind.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/farmers-movi...llegal-aliens-leave/
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