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Doug Miller

In article , wrote:
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:20:59 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote:

In article , "CW"
wrote:
Would you be willing to pay $15.00 for an apple? How about $18.00 for a
pear? Those who claim that the problem is as simple as throwing out the
illegal either don't live in farm country or are not paying attention. Ever
picked apples? I have.

Yep. I've picked apples, too. Enough to know that the idea that using American
labor to pick them would cause apples to cost fifteen bucks apiece is sheer
lunacy, a fictional number with no factual basis whatsoever, invented for no
purpose other than scaring people into believing the lie that our economy
would collapse without the cheap labor provided by illegal aliens.

Do the math. You claim an apple picker can easily make $20 an hour. Now let's
suppose that the picker's wage is only one-fifth of the retail price of an
apple. That means $100 retail worth of apples picked in an hour, or (at $15
per apple) one apple every nine minutes.

That's one damned lazy apple picker.

And one damned stupid grower, who's paying that lazy-ass picker three dollars
_per_apple_.

I notice that the man said a "good picker" can make $20 an hour..

No, he didn't. This is what he said:
Message-ID:
"A (Mexican) apple picker can easily make $20.00 an hour. "

In my experience, the pay is ZERO $ an hour and you get paid based on how many
boxes you fill..

Of course. But my point is that there is _no_way_ that apples are going to
cost anywhere near fifteen dollars apiece anytime in the foreseeable future,
no matter _who_ picks them. That's just another scare story put forward by the
apologists for illegal immigration. The math just doesn't add up.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.