A blogger wrote a couple of days ago about how illegals have fled South Carolina thanks to the new anti-illegal immigration law, and so farmers are having to employ convicts from local prisons to pick the produce, because Americans won't work for the low wages they offer.
This is puzzling in a few aspects. First, of course, each of these farms must be near some city that is just teeming with unemployed people on welfare. Why not have them do the work - for the same amount of welfare they're getting from the state - only if they don't work, they dont' get their money. Yeah, the government will still be subsidizing them, but at least they'll be working for their money.
Also, surely there are legal migrants who will pick this stuff. Indeed, if the illegals have fled, the legals will - again - get the respect they deserve for being legal.
Then, of course, maybe the farmers could pay better wages, and just pass that extra cost on to the consumer! What a concept that would be!
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