Of note, we need to bring back a respect for farming, and for farm jobs. Wine has glamour, but we need to have respect for all farm jobs. And it should not be considered punishment to have our new immigrants work in the fields as opposed to being on welfare, if a farm job is open then it should not be considered beneath them to work at a farm job. And many people like to get out there and play music while they are working in the fields, etc.
Instead of sending our new immigrants and refugees to inner cities, to violent places where people get murdered every weekend, we can send our new people to nice safe places in the country where they can have safe, peaceful lives, and where they can do farm work. Here in California we have Bakersfield, and Merced, and there are vineyards in Napa, etc, those are nice, safe areas where people can do farm jobs. In Battle Mountain, Nevada, they can raise cattle, and pigs, and they can have greenhouses where they can grow flowers to sell to San Francisco, etc, they can do trade with San Francisco.
As our new immigrants and refugees arrive, then we need to send them to peaceful rural areas where they can do farm work instead of squeezing them all into the inner cities where there are already problems.
We are going to have a lot of new people coming here from Ukraine, and from Russia, and from other places, and they need to be willing to do farm work. And we have the United Farm Workers union.
Salute,
Tony V.
You are not the first one to advocate sending legal immigrants to certain places as a condition of entry/residency.
In bambuworld such suggestions are met with "racist", "discrimination" etc.
Often not enough people to pick the fruit crops etc in bambuland, so people from the Pacific Islands enter on legal work visas, earn good money, then return home until the next season.
System works well.
Illegal immigrants and visas overstayers are not welcome.
We have Mexico next door, and Latin America, we have plenty of workers here, we need to make them all legal, and we have the United Farm Workers, we just need to make it fashionable to be a farm worker, like it is to be a construction worker or a truck driver, and it can be fun to go work at a vineyard if you have the right attitude, and I picked strawberries as a child and it was fun, I got out there in the strawberry field with my family and we all picked strawberries.
People need to stop thinking that it is abuse, or slavery, if they have to get out and pick oranges, or whatever. During the Great Depression people came to California from all over the USA to pick fruit. My family came from Denver, Colorado, to California during the Great Depression and they all picked fruit, they were in the camp that was in "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. My family said they were lucky to be able to pick fruit in California during the Great Depression. And they wished they had unions then, and now we have the United Farm Workers so it is better now. The farm workers have it good now.
We just need to accept farm workers as being real jobs, and there needs to be television shows featuring characters who are farm workers, etc.
I was going to go work on a vineyard in the wine country here in California so that I could live in the wine country and so that I can learn about the wine business. We need to make it fashionable, and cool, and respected, to be a farm worker.
The immigrants might enjoy working in the fields if they had the right attitude, and the entertainment industry can help to make it cool to be a farm worker.
Salute,
Tony V.
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