06-07-2017, 04:59 PM
The guest worker program would be good. And perhaps also requiring unemployed food stamp recipients (and some other welfare recipients) to work on farms to receive their benefits.
For most folks other than hispanic farm workers, it seems, (no slight intended), working an 8-hour day on a farm is a near impossibility: too hot and too tiring. So work 2-4 hours a day. (Let’s be adaptable here.) Picking crops is piecemeal work; often paid for by the pound or box.
Yes farmers prefer full-time workers, but in a labor shortage you do what you can. So say 5-6 people working 2-4 hours a day. Or some similar arrangement. (And maybe some prison labor could be arranged.)
Too many people on government assistance laze around all day (some drinking or smoking weed). Like the group of 10-15 loungers hanging out every day on the grassy rise on the mauka side of the road just after Farmers Market in Hilo.
How about they contribute to society in a small way, even if it is just picking crops? No work, no food stamps.
For most folks other than hispanic farm workers, it seems, (no slight intended), working an 8-hour day on a farm is a near impossibility: too hot and too tiring. So work 2-4 hours a day. (Let’s be adaptable here.) Picking crops is piecemeal work; often paid for by the pound or box.
Yes farmers prefer full-time workers, but in a labor shortage you do what you can. So say 5-6 people working 2-4 hours a day. Or some similar arrangement. (And maybe some prison labor could be arranged.)
Too many people on government assistance laze around all day (some drinking or smoking weed). Like the group of 10-15 loungers hanging out every day on the grassy rise on the mauka side of the road just after Farmers Market in Hilo.
How about they contribute to society in a small way, even if it is just picking crops? No work, no food stamps.