Occassionally comical Stephen Colbert testified before congress in support of Mexican migrant workers picking his fruits and nuts. Mexicans can get down and do the dirty work for the U.S. non-physical working class of people pushing papers, electrons and bureaucracies in addition to the financial related services sector.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/?hpt=T2
The comical Steve Colbert believes that foreign workers are needed to process food for Americans. The classical historical maxxim 'Those that will not dirty their hands to grow their own food shall prosper' motivated the comedian to plea before the wealthy government politicians for better conditions and routes to the Presidency with right of return.
Stephen Colbert may be though by some to have mastered the tremendous art of satire. When it is decadent and reinforces the decline of civilization it morphs into farce.
Because there are only ten or fifteen percent of U.S. citizens out of work and more underemployed the comedian's timing to advocate for more cheap foreign workers to labor on corporate farms to further destroy the wage negotiations advantage for American workers provided effective assistance to political global elite efforts to concentrate wealth and impoverish more Americans. The comic Colbert is on the side of those that would add more to the 44 million Americans living in poverty.
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Colbert ran a Pat Paulsen like Presidential race from his native South Carolina in 2008. Like many of the media world he lives in a kind of existential economic neo-expert niche and is entitled to advocate for all globalist economic enterprises.
He said that he worked for one day with the Mexican farm workers as so understands the issue. As a house repainter who does not even look in the S.W. for work any more because of the surfeit of Mexicans, and because the farm industry is becoming globalist and corrupt in the United States regarding direct employment of Americans (job loss over the past several decades) I am not sympathetic at all.
The damn Holywood crowd with their easy money are the best forfeiters of American independence crowd out there today.
The reason a nation declines is because the people get lazy and corrupt. The historian Arnold Toynbee wrote about the cycles of decline and immporting foreign farm workers is a classic example of the transition of a former creative majority becoming a repressive minority.
The U.S.A. has now about 99% of its food produced by corporate farms--American farmers were bought out. The corporate farms want cheap foreign labor to do their work while Americans are out of work.
Mexicans were an external proletariat. As in a Toynbean cycle we import the external proletariat to add to the internal proletariat and create a new majority in the U.S.A. The prosperous classes of people importing these people displace themselves.
Wage labor is largely determined by labor supply and its demand. If the Mexican border was secure so that no illegals showed up, and if the Government did not allow Mexican farm workers in (they even arrive to process fish in Alaska), the wages paid for U.S. workers would immediately be much higher or the food would not get produced.
That is the hard and true fact of management-labor macro negotiations. If AMericans want to eat their own food then they must either grow it themselves, work it themselves or higher others too nourish them. Those Mexicans providing cheap labor are just human beings like any others including us Americans. If Americans are lazy and stupid then they shall not comprehend basic labor supply-demand facts of life and will suffer high unemployment at the lower end.
The corrupt Harvard elites are happy to let 44 million Americans experience poverty because they aren't as 'superior' non-physical working democrats and Republicans.
The other fact about farms that need cheap labor is that if there were none, they would invent more machinese creating more high-tech jobs to reduce labor needs. The maint. jobs alone would be good.
Field conditions could also be improved quite a lot making jobs better for Americans. Farming still has much room for economic-ecological innovations.