Occupy Democrats

Nonsense. Absolute and utter nonsense. The premise is that people wont pay for more costly food, harvested by Americans who work for the good wages, that farmers will have to pay to attract adequate labor. Once again, nonsense.

There is something called the Law of Supply and Demand. It doesn't just apply to goods. It applies to services. If there is excess labor, a service, that excess labor depresses the price of labor. Take away that excess labor and farmer's (I am one) have a choice; pay more or let crops rot in the field , and/or take hits in the per acre productivity of their fields and livestock.

"But consumers won't pay those prices." Nonsense. They will pay those prices, or they will lose weight. You may change what you eat, but you HAVE to eat. Food is not jet skis and movie tickets. I've never been on a jet ski in my life and can't remember the last time I went to the movies. My entire life, probably never gone more than 36 hours without food.

American family farms aren't getting their ass kicked by foreign farmers, we're kicking their ass. The majority of countries developed, developing, and third world, cannot feed themselves. American farmers produce FAR more food than Americans eat. Estimates are that somewhere between 30%-45% of all the food that enters the domestic market ends up in the trash between the farm and the consumer's table. We pay good money for food that we end up throwing in the trash.

There are essentially three kinds of American farms:
_1. Large agricultural conglomerates that enjoy huge advantage because of the economies of scale. this is actually where most of your tax dollars spent on farm subsidies go.
_2. Small family owned farms that have well-developed niche markets where economies of scale offer no advantage.
_3. Small family owned farms that market poorly, or go head to head against the large conglomerates. Most of these farms are one or two bad seasons away from going under.

Once number 3 is gone, and the excess labor pool of illegal immigrants are deported, unskilled farm labor will offer good entry level employment for young and unskilled American labor, and semi-skilled/skilled farm labor will earn a comfortable living wage for middle class Americans.

If that's what occupy democrats believes, that's a stereotype and it's a really racist statement. I know foreign born people who are in IT and engineering. Not all south of the border immigrants are farm-hands.

Any excuse to make something that is illegal, legal. Don't like the immigration laws, change them. Don't like the constitution, change it. Don't like the electoral college, change it. The votes are not there to change these things, that's why they are not currently changed. Otherwise they would have been changed already and these would be moot points. No one should ridicule those that want the current laws enforced. Its called being a law abiding citizen.