I can concede farming. Those jobs are hard to fill even with big incentives. Like it or not, we all like cheaper food.
Hospitality though, those should be American jobs. They should pay a bit more in wages and hire locally. Especially in customer-facing roles. It always feels stupid to me that you travel to the US, and experience.. Guatamalan or Honduran culture at the hotel.
I'm 100% on board with deregulation. Both of my grandfathers were farmers. It's kind of a nightmare, even decades ago. One ended up selling everything. The other tried switching over to ranching for a few years, then just went an easier route and grew soy beans because of all of the extra govt incentives.
You're right, whoever is advising Trump is right, get rid of illegal aliens and you could be facing "rotting fruits in field while prices soar at the market" messaging from the left come fall that'll carry over to the mid-terms. But it's also more insidious.
The farm is the excuse, the hotels and service jobs are the jobs Americans can fill. I wish for higher wages for semi-skilled service jobs that offers a livable wage with work life balance but getting rid of the illegals won't make that happen, they’ll never let labor get scarce enough for wages to rise. This is proof of that.
Their end game is automation, just stalling till they get it, by the time they get automation all of the sudden both sides of the establishment are going to be cool with mass deportations.
Labor rates were rising very well in Trump's first term until the COVID lockdowns, the only time I had seen it in my lifetime. Even kept going at the low end jobs(fast food, groceries, etc) in my state in the summer when lockdowns first lifted here(early lift state)
Fruit can rot. All the staple foods are machine harvestable. If some gen-z tiktok thot doesn't get their fucking avocado toast I'm not going to shed a tear.
I can concede farming. Those jobs are hard to fill even with big incentives. Like it or not, we all like cheaper food.
Hospitality though, those should be American jobs. They should pay a bit more in wages and hire locally. Especially in customer-facing roles. It always feels stupid to me that you travel to the US, and experience.. Guatamalan or Honduran culture at the hotel.
-- Like it or not, we all like cheaper food.
Then get rid of the provisions in the farm bill that are specifically there to drive up the cost of food.
I'm 100% on board with deregulation. Both of my grandfathers were farmers. It's kind of a nightmare, even decades ago. One ended up selling everything. The other tried switching over to ranching for a few years, then just went an easier route and grew soy beans because of all of the extra govt incentives.
You're right, whoever is advising Trump is right, get rid of illegal aliens and you could be facing "rotting fruits in field while prices soar at the market" messaging from the left come fall that'll carry over to the mid-terms. But it's also more insidious.
The farm is the excuse, the hotels and service jobs are the jobs Americans can fill. I wish for higher wages for semi-skilled service jobs that offers a livable wage with work life balance but getting rid of the illegals won't make that happen, they’ll never let labor get scarce enough for wages to rise. This is proof of that.
Their end game is automation, just stalling till they get it, by the time they get automation all of the sudden both sides of the establishment are going to be cool with mass deportations.
Labor rates were rising very well in Trump's first term until the COVID lockdowns, the only time I had seen it in my lifetime. Even kept going at the low end jobs(fast food, groceries, etc) in my state in the summer when lockdowns first lifted here(early lift state)
Fruit can rot. All the staple foods are machine harvestable. If some gen-z tiktok thot doesn't get their fucking avocado toast I'm not going to shed a tear.