Quote:Bingo that's the reality the whole Americans won't do the work is a weak argument. Americans have and to this day do all kinds of horrible labor but it's when the pay equals the work.


Rj talks about the farmer who pays $10 an hour to bundle hay well that's fine teenagers might be interested in a wage that low but if you asked me as a grown adult id decline as well I can make $10 an hour doing way less physical work. It's cheaper for that farmer to purchase equipment that bundles the hay then to pay what someone going to want for that type of temporary physical labor.


I've dug ditches, laid sod, changed tires, and done countless other labor jobs for low wages to get where I'm at I don't believe the nonsense Americans won't do those jobs I've seen it with my own eyes. I've sat in labor hall lines at 3am with 100 other laborers (legal Americans you had to have papers) to hope for a day job making $8 an hour we where doing the same work you'd see people pick up illegals for.

 

All the laborers he hires do is load 50 lb square bales from the field onto a flat bed truck, then transfer them from the truck into a hay loft of a barn. There is equipment that will mostly automate these tasks, but his operation is not big enough to warrant the investment. The Mexican laborers range in age from 18 - 30ish, the locals he's tried to hire are usually teenagers or young adults. My county is the poorest in Tennessee, and one of the poorest in the country, yet he cannot find reliable workers locally.

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