Вообще это всё ерунда, что на поверхности. В Америке под любым решением законодателей надо искать деньги. Вот
тут всё объяснили.
According to Hecht, the California Farm Bureau Federation—a lobbying group for farm owners—says that more than 70 percent of state agricultural producers anticipate a worker shortage starting this spring.
"Basically, we're running out of low-skilled workers. People simply are not doing farm work to the extent they were doing before," J. Edward Taylor, a University of California, Davis, economist tells Hecht.
Can that be true? Could California, which has an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent, really be running out of low-skilled workers? What could be causing that?
Hecht spins a nice little story about "graying" California farm workers with "bronzed" and "weathered" features. So why aren't the farms attracting younger workers?
Here's Hecht:
In many cases, the children of farmworkers who arrived decades ago have little interest in field work, leaving much of the vital labor to their elders.
Tighter U.S. immigration enforcement, as well as brutal cartel-driven violence along the Mexican border, have deterred many potential workers from attempting to cross.
And, amid a rebounding economy in Mexico, Mexican farms are facing their own labor shortage and have plenty of work to offer at home.
The farm lobby and its libertarian allies want you to concentrate on the central reason Hecht offers: border enforcement and cartel violence. The problem is that the evidence doesn't really support this view very well.
So what should farms do to attract labor?
"US farmers will need to offer higher wages to induce new workers to migrate northward to US farm jobs," write Taylor and Charlton.
But the farm lobby has another idea. Instead of paying the workers larger shares of farm revenues, they want to pay them with citizenship.
"Farm lobbyists and elected officials are discussing remedies that include granting legal status to more than 1 million undocumented farmworkers in the United States and establishing an expanded guest worker visa program for agriculture to ensure a steady supply of laborers," Hecht reports.
Ничего нового, агро-капиталисты сказали через лобби:
- Надо!
- Сакраменто ответил: есть!
- Вашингтон ответит, да.
Либералы, бла-бла-бла... Денежки, всё остальное чепуха. Все примерно одинаково продажные, будь-то либералы, либертарианцы (один -либер- общий), или вообще дорогие русскоязычные типартейцы, вы, что-ли, принципиальнее, и за Родину *опу на британский флаг против нелегалов порвёте? :-p
... and even then it's rare that you'll be going there...
