On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:33:35 +0100, Frank "frank wrote:

On 4/26/2017 4:38 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 02:13:27 +0100, Sam E
wrote:

On 04/25/2017 12:56 PM, Frank wrote:

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A truck farmer once complained to me that all he could hire were
illegals as citizens did not want to do the work. The solution would be
to pay more than the citizens were collecting in welfare or don't give
the citizens as much welfare so they need to work.

Strangely, when I saw "truck farmer" the first thing I thought of was a
truck made from marijuana (saw that in a movie once).

Yes I've seen that too. Cheech and Chong I think.

And the above is incorrect. People earning low wages can claim working
tax credits which start at the same amount as unemployment benefit. So
you never earn the same or less by doing more work.

The farmer was from New Jersey often called the Garden State for its
vegetable farms. Truck farms need a lot of laborers to pick crops
unlike those like corn or wheat that just use machines.

Everything except fragile stuff like strawberries can be machine picked.

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It turns out a Chinese food deliveryman who was thought to be missing, was actually stuck in a Manhattan apartment building elevator for 4 days.
The man is ok, but the building's owner is charging him $1,500 rent.