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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 397185" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>There is nothing wrong with seeing someone else being held accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, the right people arent being held accountable.</p><p> </p><p>Capitalism is the concept of supply and demand. There is a demand in this country for cheap labor. The illegals are merely meeting that demand. I'm not defending them....they are breaking the law...but the problem isnt going to get solved until we are willing to look in the mirror and accept our role in it.</p><p> </p><p>I know farmers who face two alternatives come harvest time; either hire workers that they know (or at least suspect) are illegals, or watch their crops rot in the fields for want of pickers. If they pay a wage that will attract legal workers....their crop will be too expensive to compete with imported produce from China or South America. So does that make the farmer a criminal? Or the illegal who does the work? Or does the responsibility ultimately fall to the consumer who demands the cheapest possible goods, regardless of origin?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 397185, member: 14668"] There is nothing wrong with seeing someone else being held accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, the right people arent being held accountable. Capitalism is the concept of supply and demand. There is a demand in this country for cheap labor. The illegals are merely meeting that demand. I'm not defending them....they are breaking the law...but the problem isnt going to get solved until we are willing to look in the mirror and accept our role in it. I know farmers who face two alternatives come harvest time; either hire workers that they know (or at least suspect) are illegals, or watch their crops rot in the fields for want of pickers. If they pay a wage that will attract legal workers....their crop will be too expensive to compete with imported produce from China or South America. So does that make the farmer a criminal? Or the illegal who does the work? Or does the responsibility ultimately fall to the consumer who demands the cheapest possible goods, regardless of origin? [/QUOTE]
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