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In reply to the discussion: 'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers [View all]RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,097 posts)46. "Mr. Farmer (Let Me Water Your Crops)"--Seedy Donald Trump*
*See Mr Farmer by the Seeds for reference.
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'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers [View all]
douglas9
Monday
OP
In California Farm Workers average that pay plus must be offered medical benefits
Tumbulu
Monday
#68
Farm work is also physically demanding, can be dangerous, and does require skill
Alice B.
Monday
#17
Yep. And the Chinese are not buying American ag in retaliation to tariffs which is killing soybean farmers in the West
dutch777
Monday
#33
Oh my God, you're right! I'm shocked that Rump hasn't already formed chain gangs from the immigrants he's kidnapped and
LaMouffette
Monday
#43
Lol! These poor ignorant cultists. They are woking up to the self inflicted, possibly fatal, decision to reinstall tfg
Blues Heron
Monday
#28
I can just imagine farmers working with disabled people. I suspect their insurance premiums would go up.
travelingthrulife
Monday
#66
Only difference between an American and an illegal immigrant doing the job is one gets lube and the other doesn't.
cstanleytech
Monday
#35
I'm not on social media but someone needs to post this article all over Painterland
pimpbot
Monday
#51
I wonder how I'd have ended up if my grandma and her sister had decided to sell yogurt.
hunter
Monday
#70
Are the farmers expecting everyone from the metropolitan areas to be all "pumped" to locate rurally?
33taw
Monday
#53
Not everything can be "solved" with money alone. #1 The vast majority of Americans are not rural...
Hekate
Monday
#75
Having lived in a rural red county of PA from 1966 to 2024, I can find no pity to give.
appleannie1
Monday
#62
"Too spoiled" ? Well, Mr Painter, the vast majority of Americans are a century removed from farming
Hekate
Monday
#71
Waiting not-so-patiently for the inevitable concentration camp-to-work forced labor initiatives
0rganism
Monday
#76
So much for djt broadly cutting billions from literally everything, and then expect that overnight, solutions would
SWBTATTReg
Monday
#81
We are not spoiled Painter your spoiled................take a look in the mirror..............
turbinetree
Monday
#82