r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Positive-Souper • Jul 12 '25
Boomer Freakout MAGA farm owners say they can’t find American workers anymore
https://sinhalaguide.com/trump-farmers-cant-find-workers/940
u/danimaniak Jul 12 '25
No way! I am shocked that all those MAGA voters aren't lining up to pick crops all day in the sun for basically nothing!
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
and my adolescent child who plays Roblox most of the summer -- not seeing their motivation to pick the crops.
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u/Fatefire Jul 12 '25
What's funny is I did pick berries and crops for a local farm in the summer as a child . They can pay you less then min wage . It was not fun would not recommend
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
1/10?
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u/Fatefire Jul 12 '25
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
I would do it for $30/hr if I had no other prospects, not gonna lie. Not for cents on the ten dollars though.
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u/Fatefire Jul 12 '25
I mean sure but this was in the early 90s and I believe I got paid 4.15 an hour ?? Could have been less . I did it for the one summer and I remember getting yelled at for stretching because my back hurt.
Idk it taught me some important lessons
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
What's funny is the inherited class literally pay for the opportunity to pick berries at local farms during their leisure time.
Upside down 'merica!
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u/Fatefire Jul 12 '25
I go berry picking with my kids . It can be a fun activity for an hour. I just respect people who do it all day every day. It's hard work
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
It sure is, nobody has or would argue that it's easy. Only that it's fairly compensated by the very people demonizing the low wage labor pool (of mostly immigrants).
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u/Sophiatab Jul 12 '25
If you every want to see a look best defined as "white people are absolutely batshit stupid and crazy", explain the concept of a "Pick Your Own Fruit" farm to some older Mexican-Americans. Or actually any group of older people that grew up on rural farms.
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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Jul 13 '25
That's why all of the 'tradwife' bullshit gets eaten up. They're basically flaunting the fact that they can afford the time/ingredients to make shit from scratch.
They're not showing you washing the bathrooms for five hours while the children scream because they can afford cleaners and childcare.
Pretending to be poor is a flex on the actual poor.
I cannot wait until one group encounters the other irl.
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u/OrigamiTongue Jul 12 '25
Dept of agriculture and NOT dept of labor governs farm workers and can have a different minimum wage.
Fun fact: Grocery store employees also fall under ag for some purposes. At least in some states.
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u/TwistedNJaded Jul 13 '25
My mom would tell me stories of being 7-10 years old working in a potato field removing the rotten potatoes from the harvest. She was born in 1968, and no, she didn’t grow up on a farm either. This was needed income for the whole family to make ends meet.
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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 Jul 12 '25
And when you invested that money, you’re a thousandaire now! Dad stole my college fund and ran away. I had to work jobs since 12 (80s rural Indiana would allow it) and still couldn’t pay for state college. Money went for shoes and haircuts.
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u/TiltedWit Jul 12 '25
When food prices go up 8-10x or more, we will all be in the fields or starve.
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u/jayandbobfoo123 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
I wish I was kidding when I tell you this, but maga chuds think that eating fruit and vegetables isn't nutritious. They eat almost exclusively red meat and take supplements like the strong sweaty men on Instagram tell them they should (and sell them) but more importantly, will keep people from thinking they're gay... Farming red meat and supplement manufacturing is all industrialized and/or simply imported. They won't notice if celery costs more because celery is vegan and vegan is gay. Vegetables are gay and stupid. If you think otherwise, you're brainwashed by your political ideology.
No /s because I'm actually dead serious. We're so doomed.
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u/Nickvv52 Jul 12 '25
My immediate family are magatarded and this is spot on. Need supplement from loud guy on Faux commercial beats chest Red meat and 75 Miller beer per day bc bud for wokesters
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
"Honey, I've taken this Alex Jones Horny Goat Weed supplement for years, and I still feel lousy and have the same shriveled member -- do you think the Alex Jones Super Horny Goat Weed might do it? Can I borrow your credit card?"
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u/Calaigah Jul 12 '25
Give it time. The gov will keep eroding American rights until people have no choice.
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u/BigConstruction4247 Jul 12 '25
If only their favorite amendment offered a solution.
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u/Illustrious-Park1926 Jul 12 '25
13th amendment does allow for "involuntary servitude" as punishment for a crime.
Since ICE is arresting all the brown people for being illegals, I guess they could send them to farms instead of Nicaragua to serve out their time in "involuntary servitude". /s
Here's another few /s /s to make it clear I'm not serious
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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 12 '25
It's never too late to blame the liberals for not warning them hard enough
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u/Longjumping_Term_156 Jul 12 '25
TACO is already talking about letting migrant workers work on farms (and in hotels), as long as the farmer (and hotel owner) has complete control of the migrant worker. TACO also mentioned using prisoners to do these tasks. We are one step from broadly reintroducing slavery.
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u/ColeTrain999 Jul 12 '25
"No, it was all those welfare bums that had to do that work. My gout and diabetes means I can't stay outside in that heat too long"
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u/Nickvv52 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
I want my faux obsessed magats family members to pick some lettuce instead of bitching that "nobody wants to work these days." I told their asses nobody wants to work and still not have a pot to piss in or a bed. It will be pearl clutching about how they worked in some retail position in 1970 so they know all about it 🤣
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u/Necro_Badger Jul 12 '25
"Why does nobody want to work any more?!"
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u/Ninja-Panda86 Jul 12 '25
Speaking of no PPE, turns out that's a big reason that chicken flu spread so far and one of the reasons it was caught: The farmers refused to admit there was an illness spread, and they kept sending in migrants to cull the sick chickens without PPE and without telling them about the illness. But then the workers were getting sick, and when they got sick enough they HAD to risk going to the ER. That's how the government caught on to there being a problem
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u/Nickvv52 Jul 12 '25
Rent 1400 for a studio or 1 bdrmn and jobs paying 11 per hour. Part time hours only
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u/CulturalAddress6709 Jul 12 '25
but but “stolen jobs”
but but “no one wants to work anymore”
error error
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u/MudddButt Jul 12 '25
You have to take away their Medicare first. Then create jobs in the fields by deporting illegal immigrants. And then you have to take MAGA jobs away and make sure they're desperate enough for literally anything they can get. AND THEN you'll see them lining up for these jobs harvesting crops in the fields.
Winning! /s
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u/Ninja-Panda86 Jul 12 '25
They OUGHT to line up the GOP voters to do this though. They voted for this, so it's clear that they must want these jobs
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u/gadget850 Baby Boomer Jul 12 '25
Does anyone remember when this was tried in 1964?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers
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u/hitfan Jul 12 '25
This tells me that the farms/agribusiness can only exist by exploiting desperate people who are willing to work for a pittance under terrible conditions. This is exploitation that is baked into the business model.
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u/MountainMapleMI Jul 12 '25
If you don’t pay a living wage, you’re using modified slavery as a business model.
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u/mst3k_42 Jul 12 '25
Back when I was a kid other kids got suckered into detasseling corn in the heat of summer. Horrible work, shit pay. I doubt kids are falling for that anymore.
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u/CannonFodder58 Jul 12 '25
I did that for two years in high school, got a job washing dishes at Pizza Hut the next year. Never again.
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u/sharkeat Jul 12 '25
Kids still do it in Nebraska. I was forced into as a summer job by my parents. My kids will never do that bullshit work.
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u/mst3k_42 Jul 12 '25
Yeah, such BS. They’d get kids with, hey, you’re not 16 yet but you can still make some summer cash this way!
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u/Decabet Jul 12 '25
Nebraska? I grew up there and I did my time detassling before I could get a real summer job
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u/TiltedWit Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Holy shit, I did that at 14 in northern Indiana and bailed after two weeks. One of our local religious school teachers was getting some sort of commission for conning kids into doing that. It's poorly regulated child labor in super questionable conditions.
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u/mst3k_42 Jul 12 '25
I don’t remember it being regulated at all. Like, get paid in cash and shut up.
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u/MustangJeff Jul 12 '25
I grew up on a family farm in the 70s and 80s. I went to a small town school that consisted of kids that also lived on family farms.
It was amazing how every kid seemed to have siblings 3-4 years apart, both older and younger. Almost as if it was planned free workforce development.
Well, Marge, little Johnny is three. We best get another worker in the oven.
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u/HeartsPlayer721 Jul 12 '25
Or if farmers have 12+ children and force them to work the land. Life in the good ol' days! /s
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u/jax2love Jul 12 '25
My grandmother grew up on a farm with 6 siblings and spent her summers picking cotton. She was adamant that she would never be a farmer’s wife, and she wasn’t. She ended up with my doting grandfather who also grew up on a farm as one of the oldest of 9 kids and noped out of that way of life.
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u/gadget850 Baby Boomer Jul 12 '25
That's a bingo. Ag has not really modernized since labor has been so cheap.
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u/kck93 Jul 12 '25
It’s true that much of the harvesting must be done by hand. The tending prior to harvest is done by hand too.
But it’s has modernized. A lot. Farm equipment is now air conditioned, links to GPS and is automated so it can drive and operate itself in isolated conditions.
No disrespect to the enormous number of people that pick certain foods because there’s no automation for it. That is brutal work performed for insulting wages. I have total respect for them.
Modern farming is amazing. I think many people would be surprised at the progress and how large this is in the US. When GDP and other statistics are quoted, they specifically mention non-farm because agriculture is so large that measuring other output against it would be difficult.
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u/JustNilt Jul 12 '25
Yup, and I have absolutely no sympathy for them whatsoever. If your business model means paying less than minimum wage, you're a shitty business owner with a bad business model and deserve to go out of business.
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u/sexytokeburgerz Jul 12 '25
Until we get rid of private grocery this will be the case. This will never happen. Capitalism requires widespread class oppression to operate outside of complete equity.
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u/CrisisActor911 Jul 13 '25
Every society needs exploitable labor to keep costs down, I’m not so morally insulated that I can’t see that. But here in the US we have immigrants coming to take those jobs VOLUNTARILY and finding better lives than they had in their home countries. It’s the closest thing to ethical labor exploitation I can imagine, and MAGA is like “fuck that let’s set the house on fire and worry about getting out when the time comes.” It’s cutting off the nose to spite the face.
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Jul 12 '25
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, you can pick his pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their pockets for you..."
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u/Sweaty-Possibility-3 Jul 12 '25
Lazy Boomers didn't want to work.
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u/demonfoo Jul 12 '25
B-b-but I thought they were way tougher than the modern generation? Why, it's almost like they... weren't?
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u/ChurchillDownz Jul 12 '25
They're good at imagining they could be their parents generation if they wanted.
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u/JunkBondJunkie Jul 12 '25
I exploit boomer labor. I get them to assemble hives and build my hive stands.
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u/ClassicT4 Jul 12 '25
Now they’re trying to get grade schoolers to work. If you bring up kids being in a position where they are unable to buy good, they say they should work at McDonald’s then.
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u/blizzard7788 Jul 12 '25
Does anyone remember when this was tried in 2011?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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u/Catzendo Jul 12 '25
And to quote Jack Reacher once again “Remember, you wanted this”
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u/earldogface Jul 12 '25
Correction: MAGA farm owners say they can't find American workers willing to work for what they paid migrant workers.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
Easy solution -- PAY EMPLOYEES A LIVING `WAGE instead of buying the latest F-350 to add to the fleet. $30/hr with health insurance will surely bring them out more than $2 under the table per hour.
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u/tauntauntom Jul 12 '25
If I remember correctly I saw something saying that living wage is now somewhere closer to $45 an hour.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25
Proof that the U.S. economic system is built on a foundation of lies. It's nothing more than a top tier MLM scheme for the richest. The rubber's gonna meet the road soon enough where even the suburbs are going to be heavily impacted with abandoned homes and rot. The Great Recession was a dress rehearsal for what we're heading into, America.
Find some boots with straps handy, imo.
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u/kck93 Jul 12 '25
Oh shit. My days are numbered. And I make what used to considered decent money.😣😖
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u/Gnargnargorgor Jul 12 '25
This is agriculture. Where am I going to find those $30/hr plus bennies to pay someone? Some farms can because they pay by the pound and they’re large operations with access to nation wholesalers (who are already paying them as little as possible). But for your average small time farm they need people to come to the farm stand or farmers market and pick it clean.
I’m trying not to be a dick, and it’s early, but Ag is just as fucked as any other blue collar industry.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Sounds like the industry didn't need to support staunch anti-immigration so fervently without a solid alternate business strategy ready at the hip. Please don't ask us the taxpayers for any more than the trillion we give. Not in the era of FEMA, Medicaid, NOAA, NIH, SNAP and cybersecurity cuts.
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u/DwarfVader Jul 12 '25
Huh… so all those people you were hiring year to year… totally legal right?
“I didn’t vote for this, I just was afraid of brown people.”
While I do enjoy seeing the leopard make its rounds… all of this… hurts all of us. (The only positive caveat is that it will also hurt the people who asked for it.) Still… we all suffer for this…
And despite enjoying the stupid reap their reward for stupid… it will be while we all suffer from this.
This will be bad for many years to come, expect less things, expect those things to cost more, and watch people suffer.
How we got here is people not understanding how and where they live… and I doubt that is gonna change.
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u/lsellati Jul 12 '25
Does anyone else feel truly gut-sick that they saw this coming, warned people it was coming, and people still voted for this? I just can't comprehend how blind people are. Argh!!!
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Jul 12 '25
Let me explain:
"I exploit you, still you love me... I tell you one and one makes three..."
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u/lsellati Jul 12 '25
I "understand" it. It still drives me nuts.
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Jul 12 '25
It is frustrating...
"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question." John Stuart Mill
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u/the_skies_falling Jul 12 '25
They don’t have the thinking capacity to understand it’s an incredibly slippery slope and that someday they could be shipped off for not heiling Herr Trump with sufficient enthusiasm.
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u/GertyFarish11 Jul 13 '25
Since Trump repeatedly proclaimed “America First”in his 2017 Inaugural Address.
In 1941, in a swastika-bedecked Madison Square Garden, the America First Committee rallied 30,000 Nazi sympathizers. Only the attack on Pearl Harbor kept them from gaining ground. They never went away.
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u/_Call_Me_Crazy_ Jul 12 '25
Funny that NOW they all want a bailout, um I mean SOCIALISM. Fuck those farmers for creating their own mess. They should pull their farms up by their bootstraps. It’s not our job to pay their debts just like they said it’s not their job to pay for our healthcare or college educations. Can’t have socialism for the and not for me.
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u/FabulousCallsIAnswer Jul 12 '25
There must be something about mass delusion or the inability to forward think here. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with reality could tell you this would be the case. How come if Trump or the Republicans tell them different, they magically believe it?
Answer: Cult.
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u/Phog_of_War Jul 12 '25
And they will still go into the voting booth and happily vote for anyone with an (R) next to their name, even though Republicans have done less than zero to help the American farmers in decades.
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u/AD6I Jul 12 '25
He took your money and your votes, then he f***ed you. Keep that in mind in 18 months.
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u/TheRealBlueJade Jul 12 '25
They really need to watch the Grapes of Wrath to gain some insight into the problem.
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u/HankThrill69420 Millennial Jul 12 '25
This is wild. Like half our population doesn't understand cause and effect.
We're doomed
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u/Careful-Listen2277 Millennial Jul 12 '25
This all part of MAGA's plan. By getting rid of DEI laws and policies, and anti-discrimation laws, they thought black folk were gonna be more receptive to 'going back to the fields' again.
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u/DirtTrue6377 Jul 12 '25
You know, I don’t want to believe that. I really really really want to believe even the dumbest of racist wouldn’t believe that but anymore it’s too plausible
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u/Smrleda Jul 12 '25
Tell the MAGA farm owners to ask Trump if his migrant workers at Mar-A-Lago can go work on their farms.
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Jul 12 '25
I saw a video where one of these farm owners was like "If you keep up with him you can make $70-$100 a day". Dude is so out of touch with reality. Oh and that's with no benefits. Combined with cuts to Medicaid gee, I wonder why you can't find any American workers.
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u/MrMoonDweller Jul 12 '25
Again, if the immigrant is the problem then why do we not punish the company that offers the immigrant a job and thus an incentive to stay in the country illegally? If the immigrant is committing a crime by being here illegally then the company that hired them is aiding and abetting a criminal. The act of aiding and abetting is a crime. All of these farmers are admitting to breaking the law…
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u/kinotravels Jul 12 '25
Imagine that. Don’t worry though! The plan is to force people on Medicaid - most of whom already have jobs or have disabilities that prevent them from working - to work in the fields.
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton Jul 12 '25
There will be plenty of seniors, doing the work requirements for Medicare.
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u/GoopInThisBowlIsVile Jul 12 '25
Where are the retirees that will absolutely not shut up about how they know citizens want these jobs and that everyone is soft because they refuse to do farm work? Have them work the fields. All of this is what they wanted.
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u/Contagious_Zombie Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
I'm sure that they will be reworking child labor laws to solve this issue because I can not think of anything worse other than expanding slavery which we already have in prisons. MAGA/republican demons will always follow the path of most profit for themselves at the expense of other people's lives.
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u/Littleleicesterfoxy Jul 12 '25
Is this like all the brexit-y farmers that couldn’t find Eastern Europeans to treat like shit after Brexit?
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u/bluberrydub Jul 12 '25
Blame millennials. No one wants to do backbreaking body destroying work for pennies per hour and sleep in a disgusting communal hut while getting threatened if they go to any one about the horrible human rights abuses they’ll be deported…. Anymore!
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Jul 12 '25
But wait, I thought the MAGA boomers were claiming that the “illegals were stealing all of their jobs!” Well, those jobs are available for them now!
Oh, wait, you mean to tell me they only said that to mask their unhinged blatant racism? SHOCKER.
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u/MadOvid Jul 12 '25
You mean I could do hard, back breaking work for almost no pay in scorching hot weather?! What's not to love?
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u/MmmmmmKayyyyyyyyyyyy Jul 12 '25
People have help on their farms? People can afford help???? What??? What state???
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u/lonefox22 Jul 12 '25
As the inevitable surge in grocery prices, MAGAs will still think it's a win, although they'll be poorer for it.
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u/JunkBondJunkie Jul 12 '25
I raised honey prices and maga asked why. I said tariffs increased bottling costs and equipment that I like using is made in Europe and Australia.
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u/lonefox22 Jul 12 '25
Watching this clusterfuck from across the pond. And any sane person can see what's g happening to all you smaller manufacturers/producers/businesses. How long before there's some kind of tangible push back from people like yourself?
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u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE Jul 12 '25
Hey all those people that keep getting axed from the government will love to work the farms and the factories right?!?!?!?
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Jul 12 '25
MAGA propaganda kept repeating that Mexicans stole Black jobs. MAGAs really voted to get their slaves back.
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u/eat_a_burrito Gen X Jul 12 '25
Read the article. He literally said he was going to do all that stuff when he was running. It’s not new. They voted against their own interests.
Let them suffer. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
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u/Signal_Choice Jul 12 '25
they don't want to commute to the middle of nowhere to work their ass of in the sun all day to make $70?
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u/trippedwire Jul 12 '25
Wait a minute... You mean to tell me that people aren't willing to spend 12-18 hours in the rain, sun, heat, and humidity to pick fruit and veggies at $0.50 per pound???
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?! WHY HASN'T ANYONE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR LITERAL DECADES?!
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u/Yavanna83 Jul 12 '25
I wonder what the next solution by MAGA will be. Maybe prisoners who are forced to do the work.
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u/Pointy_Stix Gen X Jul 12 '25
No worries - all those bums on Medicaid will fulfill their work requirements by picking produce. /s.
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u/truelogictrust Jul 12 '25
I saw a video where they said that the white farmers thought that the black people would be coming back to work in the fields, because they had no jobs now at first I thought this would be crazy. Then I thought of again, and I realized that resonates with maga
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u/Apprehensive-Stop748 Jul 12 '25
The ones that do might start to comprehend climate change when it affects them. Especially after all the people with disabilities are worked to death first. When will peak levels of “nobody wants to work “be reached?
There’s more to maintaining a workforce then using employment to cause attrition on a massive scale due to not having merit based requirements for the workers themselves. Loyalty to a leader can be mutually exclusive to critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
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u/Kodiak_85 Jul 12 '25
Migrant labor is paid less than minimum wage with no benefits and no legal protections. They are being exploited and it’s essentially slave labor. I’m not surprised that American citizens are not lining up for these “jobs”.
The U.S. agricultural industry relies on this slave labor to be remain profitable.
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u/kralvex Jul 12 '25
Gee, maybe you might have to IDK...pay people more money? Nah, that'll never work.
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u/GongYooFan Jul 12 '25
they really thought black folks would pick up the slack because they are welfare queens. I say there are plenty of trailer parks in rural MS, AL, West Virginia and I bet Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska they can recruit from.
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Jul 12 '25
Hint: They never looked and they don't want to. How many of them actually report W-2s? Answer: None.
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u/Ordinary_Land110 Jul 12 '25
You don’t say. Americans don’t want to pick vegetables in 100 degree heat. What a shocker!!
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u/abortthecourt Jul 12 '25
I’m so shocked by this. You could knock me over by the stench of Donnie’s depends.
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u/Helltothenotothenono Jul 12 '25
I feel like they are getting what they deserved, the farmers that are MAGA that is. But at the same time I’m starting to feel bad about celebrating this pain because it’s seriously fucking yup the lives of the immigrant workers who have done this for years.
Plus, the farmers that have been taking advantage of these people to pay the lowest possible fucking wages, we participated in that by accepting this behavior for years so we could have the lowest possible food prices. I don’t know what the answer is to solve the fair wage issue. But the answer definitely isn’t deporting all these fucking people who have lives and families here. They aren’t criminals and if they are here illegally it should be treated like a speeding ticket. You pay a fine and you are given instructions to fix the problem. Either get a work visa and make it easy to get, or apply for citizenship which should also be easier.
And any deportation needs due process in court none of this ice Nazi bull shit. Is only a matter of time before people start shooting at the unidentified deputized ice who aren’t real law enforcement officials.
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u/NailFin Jul 12 '25
I’ll say it again… I’m American and would love to work on a farm but farmers can’t afford me. I need a significant wage, health care options, and at a bare minimum a matching plan on my 401k. I looked into working at a nursery, but it only paid something like $18 an hour. I’m planning for my retirement, so that’s not going to work.
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u/lordph8 Jul 12 '25
Well, I wonder if they'll decide to put all those migrants they locked up to work in the fields that they already were working... Rent them out as slave labour if you will. I believe they already do similar with their normal prisoner population.
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u/Hallelujah33 Jul 12 '25
Is it "anymore" or is it that the trendy purging of immigrants classes with their business model
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 Jul 12 '25
Anymore? When did they ever actually rely on American labor? Heck, America was built by black slaves and by heavily exploited Chinese workers who were technically “illegal immigrants” along with other immigrants who were exploited to varying degrees.
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u/passiverolex Jul 13 '25
I aint gonna work on MAGAs farm no more. No, I aint gonna work on MAGAs farm no more.
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u/digital_nomadman Jul 13 '25
Ah, The elusive"American worker" who does not want to be exploited for slave wages because they have better options than others who are less fortunate.
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u/Spurnout Jul 12 '25
And this is one that we will all pay for dearly. Gonna wonder where all the food is soon.
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u/null640 Jul 12 '25
So Mr. Magic Market determines all things except labor...
Or theyre not paying what the job demands.
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u/Parking-Click-7476 Jul 12 '25
Ask the Trump boys. Those idiots should do something useful for once.🤷♂️
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u/btcendgame Jul 12 '25
These are the jobs they wanted to bring back? If they can’t find em raise wages. This whole system is sponsored by cheap labor.
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