"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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Are you ready for $8.00 per pound lettuce & broccoli?

I doubt it would go that high. I think those two crops, for one things,
are things that *do* lend themselves to more mechanization.

You can stop saying that now. It's getting old, and it is in no way
connected with the reality of how things grow.






How do you think that would affect low income people?

Worse than it would affect higher income people. Most price increases
affect poor people more than rich people.

You're not suggesting that massive illegal immigration is countenanced as
a policy goal of providing cheap food for poor people, are you?


No, but is sure as hell is the way the economy has been structured over the
past 50-75 years. When meat heads wail about throwing out migrant workers,
they don't consider that it'll take quite some time to adjust. The biggest
adjustment will be convincing people that someone has to do "that kind of
work", and I don't care WHAT you pay them - you won't be able to accelerate
the cultural adjustment.