maineman » 07 Jan 2024, 11:13 am » wrote: ↑
contractors and lawn care companies - not to mention farms - can't find enough American laborers to keep them in business.
The MAGA crowd whines about illegal immigration but they'd **** their pants if they had to pay at the grocery store for vegetables picked by US citizens.
Why don't you try to explain that stupidity when we're ALREADY all paying higher prices for the fruits and vegetables in supermarkets that is due to the high inflation caused by Biden, the idiot that YOU helped to elect? Did the rest of us who have brains have a choice in the trillions your idiot is wasting on the green energy hoax, or his open border policies? NO ONE would force a farmer to continue growing an unprofitable crop when they don't want to accept free-market rates for their harvests. How is that any different than any other business who doesn't want to pay $15 and hour or more for a McDonald's worker for someone who is barely literate? Their options (which many are taking) are to fire much of their counter staff and replace them with automated kiosks for a customer to place their own order, or for those self-checkout lanes installed now in virtually ever store from Costco to Home Depot to every supermarket.
Personally, I couldn't care less if you had to pay $5 for your avocado or $10 for your brie! Pay the true price or choose something cheaper.
What I find nearly hysterical is the advocacy of those open border policies by moronic blacks like Eggplant, who clearly fails to understand the fact that these millions of illegals will be happily working for substandard wages AND WILL TAKE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS AWAY FROM LOW-SKILLED BLACKS!
And it's no different than the stupid workers striking and picketing by unskilled workers demanding (and receiving) higher minimum wages, only to find that in order to cover that cost, the employer fires 30% of their employees or more. Libs like you stupidly believe that an employer has no options and must be forced to meet those arbitrary wage prices dictated by state or federal governments, regardless of the value such labor entails.
I've often given the best example of the liberal stupidity encountered in my own business.
When Obama tried to force employers to cover the cost of their employees healthcare, and rejected as "unacceptable" the plan I gave to my workers because it didn't cover abortion costs (when I had only one female secretary who was over 55) I simply cancelled the policy for all of them and told them I refuse to pay for the higher costs those mandated coverages that Obama said I must offer. Every one of those workers who actually voted did so for Obama, so they earned the consequences of their actions, and I saved tens of thousands of dollars a year, more than enough to cover a great plan for my own family, and told them to go buy an Obamacare policy on line if they wanted it.
There are ALWAYS ways for an employer to avoid government mandates for a small business, not the least of which is to relocate to more business-friendly states or countries. All the while stupid liberals think they "won" some socialist concessions, only to find that now they've been fired as a consequence of their actions.