Leopards Ate My Face

“We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.” (...)
Farmers often turn to undocumented laborers because of the red tape and high costs associated with the H-2A program,

You mean all that cheap labor you relied upon is no longer available because they've been deported like animals, just like the maniac orange said he'd do?

"Too spoiled to do" I hate that phrasing and blame on workers. It used to be that summer farm work could be done by university students or other summer workers. It was always part of the year, part-time work so no one who needed an annual income could afford to do it. However no one in the farming industry wanted to find a way to make full year round jobs out of it or team up with other types of employment so their necessary workers could work the other 6, 7, 8 months of the year somewhere else and survive. They simultaneously want the work to be classed as piecemeal/poverty wage and then also demand workers skilled in the type of farming work that they need. Farmers, as a whole, have only themselves to blame for what is now happening. They supported every step in a several decades long process that has gotten them to today. Sad it has taken them until now to realize that they have created their own demise.

“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

What wages are you offering? Perhaps you are the one who has been spoiled by cheap labor.

“We moved to H-2A out of necessity,” added Sarah Zost, an orchard grower in Gardners, Pennsylvania. “No one wants to use the program. It’s a paperwork nightmare.”

So it's fine to require these immigrants to jump through all sorts of hoops and navigate the beauracracy, but for these poor American farmers running businesses it's simply too much to ask.

The cognitive dissonance with these fools is astounding.

Interesting view from a Democrat farmer.

https://youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8

“People don’t understand that if we don’t get more labor, our cows don’t get milked and our crops don’t get picked,”

Oh, trust the people understand. It's the fuckwits you keep voting for that do not.

I hope they all lose their farms :D

Have the day you voted for.

I just can not believe this and other “leopards ate my face” stories like it. This man knew his business and livelihood depended on immigrant labor. He knows exactly how his farm operates. And Trump was very clear on his intentions regarding immigration. It was one of his core policies he ran on. It’s impossible that this farmer had not considered this outcome. This story and others like it have to be fiction.

Fucked around and found out.

I hope these bigots fail and lose their farms. They deserve nothing but shame.

“It’s a shame you have hard-working people who need labor, and a group of people who are willing to work, and they have to look over their shoulder like they’re criminals,” Porter said. “They’re not.”

And your three-time vote for Mr. "They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" made it that way.

If you want hands on your farm, you'll have to pay more.

If you want hands on your farm, you'll have to accept trans- and non-binary people for who they are.

If you want hands on your farm, you'll yave to support Democrat-style immigration policy.

He clearly has enough time to give a interview. He needs to get out there and milk them cows. Bootstraps will make the job easier.

I doubt they 1) pay well 2) have decent working conditions 3) are looking very hard 4) want Americans at all - instead wanting H-2A workers to replace the undocumented immigrants they are used to exploiting.

PENN, also gave us fetterman. no sympathy for them.

The thing they really haven't caught onto yet is that this has been orchestrated. American farmers have been conglomerating for decades, and JD has some big investments in private equity agriculture to do exactly that. If they can't find workers or can't navigate the paperwork they will eventually have to sell the farm.

What are they "conserving"?

They got what they wanted! At least the leopards have plenty of food.

He’s a triple Trumper, so it’s hard to have any sympathy for him.

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Shouldn’t have been a conservative. Now shut your fucking mouth and use your fucking bootstraps.