If these migrant farm workers want higher wages and better working conditions, aren't they free to go and find work elsewhere?
I don't agree with some of the abuses mentioned in the trailer. Workers should not be locked in trailers and chained to poles. That absolutely should be stopped if it's going on. These workers, like all workers in this country should be free to leave these jobs and seek employment elsewhere.
Do they seriously look at this type of work as a lifelong career? Picking produce should be at best am entry level position. I would think that people in that kind of a job would take steps to get themselves trained to do something that pays more.
At the beginning of the trailer for this piece of propaganda, our president states that no one who works full time in this country should have to live in poverty. I would ask; When has that ever been the case anywhere in the world? Do people believe that a high school dropout with no skills who takes a minimum wage job should be able to support a family of four? I don't recall being able to support myself with the wages from my first job. I lived with my parents until I worked myself up in a career.
I see that Eva Longoria is one of the people behind this movement. She is a well know liberal activist. If you want to talk about unfair wages, how about we discuss the fact that we pay people like Eva Longoria and her husband millions of dollars to entertain us. Do they really believe that they've earned everything they have. Do they believe that they deserve what they have earned? Does she worry about the fact that people are paying $15-$20 to watch her act in a movie and maybe some of those people can't afford it? Does she ever consider that a large part of what we pay for products comes from advertising and those advertisers pay televisions programs millions of dollars to advertise and that money is then used to pay people like her to act on those programs. Does she even think about the fact that what she does drives up the cost of everything that we buy. Every time we make a purchase a portion of that money goes into the pockets of entertainers like her. Entertainers, IMHO, including professional athletes are the most over paid people in our society. How much is what they do really worth?
But that never comes up and I, for one, am glad that it doesn't. I think that people should be able to make whatever they can.
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