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Illegals Update: Crops not rotting in fields, again
On Sep 1, 1:46 pm, Bjorn > wrote:[i]
> [We were just recently having the usual arguments in these ngs about > the need for Illegals so that we won't have produce "rotting in the > fields". Basically, a bunch of liberals using verbatum the articles > and talking points of wealthy industry SIGs. It's a shame that Liberal > Democrats desire so urgently to felate the wealthy Republican > supporters that run these Illegals-loving industry organisations. They > do seem to luv the taste of that jism, you can't generally educate or > shame them out of it. But I'll give it one more go here. A Joe > Guzzardi essay with the latest reporting on our rotting produce...] > > For Labor Day, Good News From The Lodi, CA. Vineyards - Plenty of > Workers (and Machines) For This Year's Grape Harvest > > By Joe Guzzardi > > Journalism's cardinal rule is to write about what you know. > > Follow that simple logic, and readers will value your opinions. Ignore > it, and you will soon be exposed as a fool. > > Take, for example, two columnists who choose as their topic > California, its agriculture industry and whether additional guest > workers are required to pick this year's crop. > > Tamar Jacoby, Washington, D.C.-based Manhattan Institute senior > writing fellow. Wherever on the Ea Jacoby may live, she is surrounded > by cement: high-rise federal buildings, malls and the Metro. The only > thing Jacoby knows about fruit is that her favorite ethnic grocery > store sells stone-hard peaches and mealy apples. > > - VDARE.COM Letters Editor Joe Guzzardi, based in California's San > Joaquin County, the planet's agricultural capital. Within a three-mile > radius of Guzzardi's house are strawberry and corn fields, vineyards > and peach and cherry orchards. > > Not to toot my own horn - but who, between Jacoby and me, is more > knowledgeable about California and farm labor? > > Jacoby's latest Los Angeles Times column California Without A Mexican, > dissected by Brenda Walker in her blog here, is a great example of how > ill-advised she is to opine on subjects about which she knows nothing. > > As noted, Jacoby doesn't live in California so her credibility is > immediately suspect. And the only Mexicans she knows are her fellow > traitors at La Raza. Jacoby is certainly not having cocktails with > field workers. > > But this sentence from her LA Times column offers positive proof that > Jacoby is clueless: > > "The crisis peaks every year in August and September, and the photos > start showing up in the newspapers: piles of rotting pears, strawberry > plants choked by weeds, unpicked cucumbers grown to monstrous sizes > and melons oozing in the fields." > > Even though we are right now in the "crisis" period of "August and > September," I haven't seen any such photos. Living in the San Joaquin > Valley where agriculture is key to our economy, you can be sure I > would have if they exist. > > But what's really fascinating is that the strawberry season ends in > May and pears haven't really started yet. Being asked to photograph > "rotting pears" or "strawberry plants choked by weeds" in early > September would be quite a challenge. > > Jacoby needs a fact checker. Maybe she should call me. > > Simply put, nothing is rotting save perhaps, a tomato in someone's > backyard vegetable patch. > > Here, on the other hand, is what's going on. > > In Lodi, the grape harvest has begun. The Lodi News-Sentinel published > a story about its first days. [ The Harvest Begins, By Chris Nichols, > Lodi News-Sentinel, August 24, 2007] > > The story, with a slide show, details at length how between now and > November, the grapes will be picked. Featured are the vineyards' two > owners, Ben Kolber and Kris Gutierrez and a crew of Pakistani > immigrants (legally in the U.S., one assumes) who will man the two > tractors, the harvester and the gondola bins that collect the grapes. > > The work is hard, to be sure. But people already in the U.S. do it-no > need for any guest worker programs. One of the pickers, Asif Khan, has > been in the U.S. for ten years and spoke in English to the > News-Sentinel reporter. > > The comments posted on the story's Internet version (scroll all the > way down) are insightful, also. > > Of most interest are these observations from "T & C": > > "I'm from an old Dakota farm family and bucked many bales in my > younger days and always appreciated the mechanization of farm > machinery to do the back-breaking work. > > "Great job, men. Hard work reaps great benefits, not like those > growers who use illegal (workers) and paid under the table help year > after year to prune, weed and harvest their grapes and other crops. > Some 'good' farmers even keep $2 an hour of their underpaid field > hands wages for themselves just for providing that job opportunity to > them to make their life 'better'. There's no reason to hand-pick wine > grapes anymore, except for the self profit of the greedy ones." > > What do you think about that, Tamar Jacoby? > > If Jacoby performed due diligence in her immigration pieces, a > practice that I suggest she institute, she would discover that we're > doing just fine in California, thank you very much, without any more > guest workers. > > Even allowing that Jacoby was writing for the Los Angeles Times, her > column breaks all the rules for credible journalism. > > Jacoby's language reflects speculation. Hard facts that many > publications, but not the Times, usually consider essential are found > nowhere. > > Check it out for yourself. > > According to Jacoby, writing about the "No Match" letters soon to be > sent by the Social Security Administration to employers reminding them > that names and social numbers of their workers must match: > > - The government is demanding that unauthorized employees be fired and > threatening legal action if they aren't. This is expected to trigger > widespread layoffs"" > > - Better enforcement "will wreak havoc" > > - If crackdowns on illegal immigration continue, "that could drive > fruit and vegetable farming out of the United States, putting > California's $30-billion-a-year industry at risk." > > - "Agriculture would be just the beginning" of California industries > that would fail if immigration laws are enforced. > > Jacoby concludes with this knee-slapper: > > - magine California 'without a Mexican' [Jacoby's reference to an > unfunny, box office bust, comedy that I reviewed here] a year or two > from now: crumbling roads, understaffed hospitals, unbuilt classrooms > and more." > > Emphases added. > > Earth to Tamar Jacoby! Earth to Tamar Jacoby! Come in please! > > - California already has crumbling roads because the state spends so > much money on social services to aliens that it can't afford > infrastructure maintenance. > > - Our hospitals are understaffed because personnel can't be hired > quickly enough to keep up with the illegal aliens seeking medical > treatment for anything from a runny nose to a kidney transplant. > > - So many illegal alien children (and children born to their alien > mothers) have come to California that schools cannot be constructed > fast enough to accommodate them - even if there were money to build > them - which there is not. > > In a column I wrote last year, I asked if dishonest journalists are > inherently dishonest. > > I'm not sure if Jacoby is purposely deceitful in her immigration > columns or if she truly believes the pap she writes. If the latter, > then she is supremely naïve because a mountain of evidence exists that > destroys her position. > > Jacoby should use this guideline: when she can substitute "have," > "had," and "did" for "if," "would be," and "imagine," then I'll listen > to what she has to say. > > Maybe > > Until then, Jacoby should go back to journalism basics and try to > establish credibility among her limited audience. > http://www.halturnershow.com/ Hal Turner Show greg |
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