Who are you?
So who are you people, you farmers, who feel you are entitled to hire illegal aliens? Who are you that can brazenly say your business is so special that the laws regarding hiring and wages should be suspended for you? Who are you that feel you are so essential that laws shouldn’t be enforced, exceptions made just for you? Who are you that insists that the rest of society be burdened with the huge costs of illegal aliens so you can hire cheaply. Who are you with all the subsidies that pay you not to grow, with all the tax deferments and exemptions that no other business has in any way remotely close to yours, who are you that you still want more, workers than you can take advantage of because they have broken the law so you can pay them less. Who are you and how dare you.
So who are you people, you farmers, who feel you are entitled to hire illegal aliens? Who are you that can brazenly say your business is so special that the laws regarding hiring and wages should be suspended for you? Who are you that feel you are so essential that laws shouldn’t be enforced, exceptions made just for you? Who are you that insists that the rest of society be burdened with the huge costs of illegal aliens so you can hire cheaply. Who are you with all the subsidies that pay you not to grow, with all the tax deferments and exemptions that no other business has in any way remotely close to yours, who are you that you still want more, workers than you can take advantage of because they have broken the law so you can pay them less. Who are you and how dare you.
posted by R Huse at 12:23 AM
2 Comments:
And this would be exactly the mentality I was speaking of. Of course the point you make is entirely untrue. You don’t feed my fat slob ass at all. I pay you many times over, through money at the check out line, tax subsidies and the like and you produce food. The farmers job is no more essential to sustaining life than that the building contractor. I would assume, following your logic that the builder, like the farmer, should be paid not to build because his job is so essential. That it should be ok for the builder to hire illegals because he houses your fat slob ass?
The simple fact of the matter is this: farming is a business, like any other. It should be subject to the same laws as everyone else. Taxes should not be used to pay the farmer enormous subsidies not to grow, or to keep the price of his crops up or what have you. And if that farmer can’t make a living by hiring legally, then he should be out of business. Don’t like it? Too bad, all the rest of us have to play by the book and its time farmers did as well. The mournful tones of “but we’re farmers, we’re special, we feed people” is getting really old. Suck it up and deal with it.
I guess I can see that farmers may have had a hard time due to treaties and I can see how the federal government is a burden with regulations. But then again, is there any industry in America that doesn’t have the same issues? Lets face it, farmers do get a raw deal in some treaties and trade agreements. But farmers also get far more subsidies and tax deferments than virtually any industry. What other industry has had the chutzpah to act like there should be some tacit agreement that they get to hire illegals
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