wellwisher
Well-Known Member
If farmers had to pay higher wages to pick crops, smaller family farmers, would go out of business thereby eliminating jobs. This would narrow the farm industry down to the larger farms run by cooperations, who can better afford the higher wages. They will then pass on the cost to the consumers, so the poor and middle class families take an inflationary hit.
Look at the University system and student loans; sort of a larger wage for students. The Universities made $trillions off these students and the tax payer is expected to take the full hit for the debt. All the Universities had to do was pay Democrat politicians $10's millions in campaign donations and they made $trillions. This created problems for students, which they then pass onto others; parasites. Big Businesses and Politicians always do well via these warm fuzzy Lefty schemes, while the middle class takes the hit with higher taxes and deficit spending; future taxes up front.
The mistake that big hearted people; emotional thinkers make, is the cost of living, where these workers come from, is much lower than the inflated costs in the USA. Migrant workers are seasonal. They cyclically work here and return home where their lower wage here, can pay their bills there. There is less good work where they live, so many work here to send money home and save, so they can retire in the old country, with some security and social status. I have a immigrant friend who just retired into a nice house he owns in Puerto Rico.
A few years ago the debate about poverty in America was more center stage. There is a connection here. One study compared the creature comforts of the poor in America of today to the poor of the 1960's. Poor families of today have automobiles, most own homes, TV sets, computers, microwave, phones, health care, more square feet of living space, etc.. Back in the 1960's only the upper middle class had all these trimmings. What was considered well off and comfortable in terms of logistics, 50 years ago, is now called poverty.
Poverty appears to be less about physical need, and more about a state of mind, due to people comparing each other to the Jones. it is not about objective measures of physical logistics and support. It is more about not having the designer things.
The immigrants may appear poor here based on comparing to the Jones, but in their country, they are up to par with the logistics of middle class and are happy. I know a seasonal painter who goes to medical school in Brazil and works here for summers. Someday he will be doctor there or here. He gets paid less but he works extra to make up for it. It is not a snob about being in premed.
I get the impression the Left elite like to make people feel bad, about their status, instead of help them count their blessings. They like to manipulate these proud people based on emotional thinking; free ride, that then leads to economic problems and the need for bigger government.
If farm worker wages were too low for migrant workers they would not show up. They would seek the better wages in other states. It is not about the elite lefties comparing everyone to themselves and rubbing their nose in it, until they generate embarrassment and subjective need. Pelosi is very rich and anyone not in her circle is like a migrant worker who is needed to support her class. They cannot see happiness in hard work, family and simplicity. It must involve pretension and elite flash.
