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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Who Will Harvest The Broccoli? The Modern American Plantation - American Thinker

 (DaModernAmerican PLANTATION - read it and weep for what has happened to your country! - CL)

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/who_will_harvest_the_broccoli_the_modern_american_plantation.html
 
On a cold and rainy March morning in Ohio this Spring, I called a friend who also owns a landscaping company to see how he was handling the start of the busy season.

“I am dropping off a load of plants,” he said.

I was shocked because, at the time, I was wondering if the rain coming down might turn into snow.

“Our guys would quit,” I said, half joking, half not.

His guys were the eight Hondurans he was dropping off plants to.

They are all here—legally—through what is known as the H-2B program for temporary workers.

He houses them on his property—he is required to provide them with housing—and charges them rent. There was a season when he rented them a camper. This year, he bought them a house.

If you zoom out—or took a drone image—of the modern business with a staff comprised of foreign workers, toiling in the fields, doing the jobs deemed unworthy—while living in a camper or a house out back—it must in some ways resemble a reimagining of the Southern plantation.

Maybe we should not live like that, and that business model should not be the goal. Maybe we should fix what ails us here.