Problem Solved

This morning, I was watching CNBC again (no, I don’t know why I torture myself so), when Mark Haines rather annoyedly announced the next segment. It seems that immigration is down — both legal and illegal — and as a result, farmers are having trouble getting the migrant agricultural workers they need to bring in the crops.

Whatever shall they do?? Build a crazy machine to do it??

Well here’s an idea. It seems that the unemployment rate among Americans who can legally work in this country is at the highest level since the Reagan Administration. Crazy talk I know, but how about hiring an American to shit in harvest your crop? Don’t tell me this is “a job Americans won’t do,” because Mike Rowe would do it. Oh I know, you would actually have to pay a decent wage. And you would also actually have to take steps to encourage a safe workplace. That’s show-biz. 

Nope, it’s much easier to gripe about how we can’t get our normal supply of people who are willing to be exploited at sub-minimum wage jobs in rough conditions with no overtime pay. Or maybe build a crazy machine to do it. 

In closing: a quarter million bucks is a lot of money; incipient SBA fail!; poor hedgies cutting jobs (I hear there’s work as a migrant crop picker!); can you find the logical problem with this sentence? “Nearly half of college freshmen who drink alcohol spend more time drinking each week than they do studying….”; by way of follow up, even the feds admit E-Verify has problems; life lessons; turns out not all terraists are Muslim or even Brown; and finally, don’t get me wrong, I’m not generally anti-Cramer (I’ve corresponded with him), but taking on a comedian as if he were a journalist when your own hands aren’t squeeky clean was a big huge mistake. Stick to making stock calls and pie, Jim.