In Tioga County, PA, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses.
Farmers in the rural region near the New York border say those stories are not unique.
‘The whole thing is screwed up,’ said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. ‘We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.’
Almost like elections have consequences right?
MalikTheHalfBee on
Americans do love underpaying brown people to work the fields.
No job “can’t find workers”, it just has employers unwilling to pay wages that entice workers, even worse considering all the public subsidies these particular employers receive
cqm on
where do they post these jobs and what are the rates? my bet is that there are many Americans that would apply even at minimum wage, if they were posted in familiar places to Americans, but I’m not sure
Scary_Firefighter181 on
When I see shit like this, I can’t help but be remembered of the Onion reaction to Bush winning the 2000 election.
**America’s long nightmare of peace and prosperity comes to an end.**
Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo the damage wrought by Clinton’s two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.
During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.
“You better believe we’re going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration,” said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. “Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?”
On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession, which would necessitate a tax hike, which would lead to a drop in consumer spending, which would lead to layoffs, which would deepen the recession even further.
Wall Street responded strongly to the Bush speech, with the Dow Jones industrial fluctuating wildly before closing at an 18-month low. The NASDAQ composite index, rattled by a gloomy outlook for tech stocks in 2001, also fell sharply, losing 4.4 percent of its total value between 3 p.m. and the closing bell.
Asked for comment about the cooling technology sector, Bush said: “That’s hardly my area of expertise.”
Turning to the subject of the environment, Bush said he will do whatever it takes to undo the tremendous damage not done by the Clinton Administration to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He assured citizens that he will follow through on his campaign promise to open the 1.5 million acre refuge’s coastal plain to oil drilling. As a sign of his commitment to bringing about a change in the environment, he pointed to his choice of Gale Norton for Secretary of the Interior. Norton, Bush noted, has “extensive experience” fighting environmental causes, working as a lobbyist for lead-paint manufacturers and as an attorney for loggers and miners, in addition to suing the EPA to overturn clean-air standards.
Bush had equally high praise for Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, whom he praised as “a tireless champion in the battle to protect a woman’s right to give birth.”
“Soon, with John Ashcroft’s help, we will move out of the Dark Ages and into a more enlightened time when a woman will be free to think long and hard before trying to fight her way past throngs of protesters blocking her entrance to an abortion clinic,” Bush said. “We as a nation can look forward to lots and lots of babies.”
Continued Bush: “John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.”
The speech was met with overwhelming approval from Republican leaders.
“Finally, the horrific misrule of the Democrats has been brought to a close,” House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told reporters. “Under Bush, we can all look forward to military aggression, deregulation of dangerous, greedy industries, and the defunding of vital domestic social-service programs upon which millions depend. Mercifully, we can now say goodbye to the awful nightmare that was Clinton’s America.”
Mpls_Mutt on
I hate the sentence “we can’t find workers” or “nobody wants to work”.. if you were paying $1m/hr you’d have people lined up around the block wanting that job. It’s really “you can’t find workers for what little you want to pay”.. so I don’t feel sorry for you.
CornFedIABoy on
A lot of these places where “no one wants to work” are low population counties where prime age LFPR is already pushing 75%, U3’s under 3%, with little available quality housing, limited services (like daycare), and few amenities. To entice people to move there to take these hard, unfamiliar (everyone has an understanding of construction or factory work but if you didn’t grow up around farming you probably don’t have the same for farm labor) jobs you have to offer wages that most farmers can’t afford to pay and couldn’t imagine paying even if they could. Historically the direction of travel in labor migration has always been from rural/ag to urban/industrial. Reversing that trend in any significant way would take unimaginable social and economic upheaval.
Any-Panda2219 on
I thought all the Americans who had their jobs taken from them by immigrants would go running to fill those positions they so rightfully deserved
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In Tioga County, PA, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses.
Farmers in the rural region near the New York border say those stories are not unique.
‘The whole thing is screwed up,’ said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. ‘We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.’
Almost like elections have consequences right?
Americans do love underpaying brown people to work the fields.
No job “can’t find workers”, it just has employers unwilling to pay wages that entice workers, even worse considering all the public subsidies these particular employers receive
where do they post these jobs and what are the rates? my bet is that there are many Americans that would apply even at minimum wage, if they were posted in familiar places to Americans, but I’m not sure
When I see shit like this, I can’t help but be remembered of the Onion reaction to Bush winning the 2000 election.
**America’s long nightmare of peace and prosperity comes to an end.**
Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo the damage wrought by Clinton’s two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.
During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.
“You better believe we’re going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration,” said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. “Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?”
On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession, which would necessitate a tax hike, which would lead to a drop in consumer spending, which would lead to layoffs, which would deepen the recession even further.
Wall Street responded strongly to the Bush speech, with the Dow Jones industrial fluctuating wildly before closing at an 18-month low. The NASDAQ composite index, rattled by a gloomy outlook for tech stocks in 2001, also fell sharply, losing 4.4 percent of its total value between 3 p.m. and the closing bell.
Asked for comment about the cooling technology sector, Bush said: “That’s hardly my area of expertise.”
Turning to the subject of the environment, Bush said he will do whatever it takes to undo the tremendous damage not done by the Clinton Administration to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He assured citizens that he will follow through on his campaign promise to open the 1.5 million acre refuge’s coastal plain to oil drilling. As a sign of his commitment to bringing about a change in the environment, he pointed to his choice of Gale Norton for Secretary of the Interior. Norton, Bush noted, has “extensive experience” fighting environmental causes, working as a lobbyist for lead-paint manufacturers and as an attorney for loggers and miners, in addition to suing the EPA to overturn clean-air standards.
Bush had equally high praise for Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, whom he praised as “a tireless champion in the battle to protect a woman’s right to give birth.”
“Soon, with John Ashcroft’s help, we will move out of the Dark Ages and into a more enlightened time when a woman will be free to think long and hard before trying to fight her way past throngs of protesters blocking her entrance to an abortion clinic,” Bush said. “We as a nation can look forward to lots and lots of babies.”
Continued Bush: “John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.”
The speech was met with overwhelming approval from Republican leaders.
“Finally, the horrific misrule of the Democrats has been brought to a close,” House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told reporters. “Under Bush, we can all look forward to military aggression, deregulation of dangerous, greedy industries, and the defunding of vital domestic social-service programs upon which millions depend. Mercifully, we can now say goodbye to the awful nightmare that was Clinton’s America.”
I hate the sentence “we can’t find workers” or “nobody wants to work”.. if you were paying $1m/hr you’d have people lined up around the block wanting that job. It’s really “you can’t find workers for what little you want to pay”.. so I don’t feel sorry for you.
A lot of these places where “no one wants to work” are low population counties where prime age LFPR is already pushing 75%, U3’s under 3%, with little available quality housing, limited services (like daycare), and few amenities. To entice people to move there to take these hard, unfamiliar (everyone has an understanding of construction or factory work but if you didn’t grow up around farming you probably don’t have the same for farm labor) jobs you have to offer wages that most farmers can’t afford to pay and couldn’t imagine paying even if they could. Historically the direction of travel in labor migration has always been from rural/ag to urban/industrial. Reversing that trend in any significant way would take unimaginable social and economic upheaval.
I thought all the Americans who had their jobs taken from them by immigrants would go running to fill those positions they so rightfully deserved