Iowans should push both parties to champion legal immigration in agricultural states by emphasizing its economic necessity. Dem's should raise the issue in campaigns. We know farm labor shortages directly threaten food production and rural economies. Immigrants revitalize aging communities, start businesses, and maintain essential services. Last year, I wrote a letter to the editor: "Without immigration reform, rural Iowa loses workers, families, and eventually schools and hospitals." I tried to connect immigration directly to agricultural productivity and community survival.
This "institute" is straight out of Democracy in Chains! If you haven't read it, Art, it's worth at least a peek to see how long this scam has been building. But I've been wondering who they want to replace immigrants with...now I see it - people receiving Medicaid. Then let's up the age you can get Social Security and we get a bunch of able-bodied 70-year-olds...or maybe we'll go back to Henry's Boys days and start plucking people with intellectual disabilities out of their homes to pull crop, as they call it...
I moved away as a teenager in the mid sixties to accompany my Mother to Texas. I loved farming and helped my Grandparents from age 5. But by then, the trend was underway to consolidate quarter sections into sections and one individual spend large sums of money to buy equipment to do all this farming by themselves. Short, answer, they didn’t think they needed us. It was soon apparent that one farmer couldn’t do justice to this much land no matter how big a Tractor he was making payments to the Bank for. Corners had to be cut and methods simplified. Groves and farm stead’s were bulldozed to yield a few more bushels of grain. Snow didn’t bank up on the fields to melt and furnish start up moisture. Crop rotation disappeared because one couldn’t make the payments without 100percent corn base.
The Native Sons had all left because they were not needed, But the need showed itself. Nature abhors a vacuum. The humanity that filled the vacuum already knew how to farm but couldn’t do it in their Native Land because some “Suits” had flooded their home with cheap subsidized grain.
Get off your hypocrisy, Iowa Leadership. And eat your Tacos. You know you like them
You are so right.
Republican hypocrisy.
We need immigrants for many reasons, some of them selfish and some of them altruistic.
Democrats need to emphasize the selfish, financial need for immigrants. That’s what voters will respond to.
Iowans should push both parties to champion legal immigration in agricultural states by emphasizing its economic necessity. Dem's should raise the issue in campaigns. We know farm labor shortages directly threaten food production and rural economies. Immigrants revitalize aging communities, start businesses, and maintain essential services. Last year, I wrote a letter to the editor: "Without immigration reform, rural Iowa loses workers, families, and eventually schools and hospitals." I tried to connect immigration directly to agricultural productivity and community survival.
Thanks, Art. Common sense is in short supply on almost every level of politics and business in our state these days.
THANK YOU Art for yet another superb COMMON Sense report!
I will do my best to make sure my R-farmer friends and colleagues will get a „MUST“ read and invitation for a fair discussion!
That Texan Hayden, the real football guy, popularized ANF! As Art and the referenced report state:
IOWA
NEEDS
FARMERS
and the reverse
FARMERS
NEED
IMMIGRANTS
ANF, INF & FNImmigrants
This "institute" is straight out of Democracy in Chains! If you haven't read it, Art, it's worth at least a peek to see how long this scam has been building. But I've been wondering who they want to replace immigrants with...now I see it - people receiving Medicaid. Then let's up the age you can get Social Security and we get a bunch of able-bodied 70-year-olds...or maybe we'll go back to Henry's Boys days and start plucking people with intellectual disabilities out of their homes to pull crop, as they call it...
I moved away as a teenager in the mid sixties to accompany my Mother to Texas. I loved farming and helped my Grandparents from age 5. But by then, the trend was underway to consolidate quarter sections into sections and one individual spend large sums of money to buy equipment to do all this farming by themselves. Short, answer, they didn’t think they needed us. It was soon apparent that one farmer couldn’t do justice to this much land no matter how big a Tractor he was making payments to the Bank for. Corners had to be cut and methods simplified. Groves and farm stead’s were bulldozed to yield a few more bushels of grain. Snow didn’t bank up on the fields to melt and furnish start up moisture. Crop rotation disappeared because one couldn’t make the payments without 100percent corn base.
The Native Sons had all left because they were not needed, But the need showed itself. Nature abhors a vacuum. The humanity that filled the vacuum already knew how to farm but couldn’t do it in their Native Land because some “Suits” had flooded their home with cheap subsidized grain.
Get off your hypocrisy, Iowa Leadership. And eat your Tacos. You know you like them
thanks for always pointing out the truth that some of our leaders would rather ignore!
It all drives me crazy. It seems SO easy to understand!!
Their idea of common sense is really nonsense!