cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35845659
For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.
And all of a sudden, just like that, media can refer to them as “immigrants” and even “undocuments immigrants” and not “illegals”. Amazing.
May he lose his fucking dairy farm. I have no patience left for these obstinate fools.
Even some U.S. citizens working on the O’Harrow farm support the deportations, a position Joel finds confusing and thinks comes from too much talk radio on the tractor. “They love those guys,” he said, and wondered at the contradiction. “You work with a guy every day, and you still say it? Really? That’s the answer?”
And there it is. Undereducated doofuses getting brainwashed by right-wing talk radio. We’re never going to make any progress until those clowns are gone.
In fairness to these mumbling idiots, they’ve been brainwashed for at least 30 years, they had the shitty education that only the US can offer to ensure you remain dumb enoughto be controlled…
Is it really any miracle that their base is just that stupid?
That can’t be true. Immigrants were taking everyone’s jobs. Why didn’t he pick one of the white guys that wanted them so badly?
According to the article, he was hiring Americans at first. However:
“They would call five minutes before milking time, and say, ‘I’m not going to make it,’” Tim said. “Well, who’s going to milk the cows? We’re trying to run a business. It just wasn’t working.”
Then he switched to Mexicans.
Then he switched to Mexicans.
I.e. Then he switched to an oppressed underclass that is too desperate to call out.
If you can’t handle call outs you don’t have enough staff. Full stop.
Then he switched to Mexicans.
And he did that because they were cheaper than an automated dairy shed.
all the ones around me here in Australia are automated.
high wages are a hood thing, they make innovation for drudgery. The corollary is, how to spread the productivity gains? here in Australia it seems to be by having more and more “Bullshit Jobs” rather than something like a UBI.
I have one of those.
Mexicans will get it done with no fuss. They’re worth double. I used to be in the roofing biz, and you WANT a Mexican crew on your roof. They didn’t come cheap, especially if they knew what they were doing, and had a crew chief that spoke English. They were worth every penny.
Sounds like Tim is a failed patriarch then. If he had any honor he would end his weak lineage.
This was actually a really good and enlightening article. Why it took these cats 20 years to catch on I cannot say, but it definitely sounds like they have caught on.
I expected it to remove immigants [sic], not my slaves!
